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OBITUARY RECORD

OF

GRADUATES OF YALE UNIVERSITY

DECEASED FROM JUNE, 1910, TO JULY, 1915

1910-1915

NEW HAVEN

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OBITUARY RECORD

OF

GRADUATES OF YALE UNIVERSITY

Deceased during the year ending
JUNE 1, 1911,

INCLUDING THE RECORD OF A FEW WHO DIED PREVIOUSLY
HITHERTO UNREPORTED

No. i of the Sixth Printed Series, and No. 70 of the whole Record. The
present Series will consist of five numbers.]

OBITUARY RECORD

OF

GRADUATES OF YALE UNIVERSITY

Deceased during the year ending
June i, 1911,

Including the Record of a few who died previously, hitherto unreported

No. i of the Sixth Printed Series, and No. 70 of the whole Record,
The present Series will consist of five numbers.]

YALE COLLEGE
(academical department)

1839

Augustus Greele Eliot, eldest son of Daniel Eliot
(Dartmouth 1813) of New York City and Marlborough-on-
the-Hudson, and of Abigail (Greele) Eliot, was born July
18, 1821, at Woodstock, N. Y., where his parents were
spending the summer. He entered Yale in Senior year
from New York University.

After graduation he took the course in the New York
College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University),
receiving his degree in 1843. The year following he was
resident physician at the New York Hospital, and the next
two years at the New York Asylum for Lying-in Women.
In the year 1846-47 he was visiting physician at the North-
ern Dispensary. He was active in securing the reorganiza-
tion of Bellevue Hospital, after which he served as visiting
physician there. The hard work of these years necessitated
a rest, and he spent the year 1849 m a voyage to California
and a sojourn there. From 1850 to 1854 he practiced his

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profession in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and then for more than
fifty years in New York City, where he was known as a
skillful obstetrician. He was one of the founders of the
xNew York Academy of Medicine.

He married, December 10, 1850, Elizabeth Antoinette,
daughter of Colonel Amos Proctor, of Exeter, N. H., and
Boston, Mass., and had three daughters and two sons, of
whom the younger received the degree of Bachelor of
Philosophy from Columbia University in 1878 and Doctor
of Philosophy in 1881. After the decease of his first wife
in 1885, he married, October 26, 1887, Elise, daughter of
Dr. Ludwig Gossel, of Hamburg, Germany, and spent the
last few years of his life abroad. He died at Rostock, May
10, 191 1. He was in his 90th year, and was the last sur-
vivor but one of his class. One son and two of his daugh-
ters survive him. He was a brother of Rev. Henry Bond
Eliot, D.D. (B.A. N. Y. Univ. 1840).

1844

Ezekiel Porter Belden, son of James Lockwood Belden
and Julia (Belden) Belden, grandson of Captain Ezekiel
Porter Belden (B.A. Yale 1775) of the Revolutionary Army,
and great-grandson of Colonel Thomas Belden (B.A. Yale
1751), was born April 24, 1823, at Wethersfield, Conn. His
father was a merchant in Wethersfield, which he represented
several times in the Legislature, but moved to New Haven
in 1840 to educate his sons.

After graduation he studied in the Yale Law School, and
then spent two years in the construction and exhibition of
models in wood of New Haven and New York. For many
years he resided in Sing Sing (now Ossining), N. Y., prac-
ticing law and occasionally appearing in court, but was
chiefly engaged as a legal and general editor. He was for
over fifteen years one of the editors of the New York
Journal of Commerce, of which his father-in-law was editor
for nearly forty years, also editor of the New York Shoe

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and Leather Reporter. He had been one of the organizers
of the South Congregational Church in New Haven, and
was active as a church officer and Sunday school superin-
tendent at Ossining. During the last twenty-five years he
had spent most of his time in New York City, conducting
his International Literary Bureau, which furnished for the
American press matter based on the latest literary and
scientific publications in foreign languages.

He married, August 21, 1848, Eliza A., daughter of
Gerard Hallock (Williams 1819) and Eliza (Allen) Hal-
lock, who died February 21, 1893. His son died in infancy,
and his daughter, the wife of John Parsons, M.D., upon
whom he greatly depended and who had for some time been
his secretary, died in April, 1910.

Mr. Belden died of pneumonia at the Harlem (N. Y.)
Hospital, March 6, 191 1, in the 88th year of his age.
During a fire in his apartment several weeks before he
caught cold from exposure.

For years, at different periods, he was Secretary of the
class and was tireless and resourceful in his search for infor-
mation about his classmates. He prepared with great detail
a number of sketches for a Class History.

Augustus Aurelius Coleman, only son and eldest of
the three children of James Brown Coleman (M.D. Charles-
ton Med. Coll. 1824) and Louise (Simpson) Coleman, was
born May 21, 1826, in Camden, S. C. His mother died in
his early childhood, and when he was eight years old his
father moved to Dallas County, Ala., where he was an
extensive cotton planter till his death only two or three
years later. The son was then taken into the family of Mr.
Goldsby, whose twin sons were also members of the class of
1844 but did not graduate, and was fitted for college at Sum-
merfield Academy. After passing the college entrance
examination, he waited a year to reach the required age,
spending the intervening year in the school of Stiles French
(B.A. Yale 1827) in New Haven.

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After graduation he studied law in Cahaba, Dallas
County, Ala., in the office of Charles G. Edwards and Wil-
liam Hunter (Univ. Ala. 1837), was admitted to the bar in
1846, and settled in Livingston, Sumter County, Ala., form-
ing a partnership with B. W. Huntington. He was a justice
of the peace at Cahaba in 1847-48, in January, 1858, was
appointed by the Governor Judge of the Seventh District,
in May of that year was elected to the same position, and
re-elected in 1864.

A strong believer in state sovereignty, he was one of the
delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention in 1861, and
framed the resolution for secession which it adopted. On
May 16, 1862, he was elected Colonel of the Fortieth Ala-
bama Infantry Regiment, which he had raised and which he
commanded during parts of the Vicksburg campaign in
1862, and in the early part of 1863. After an absence of
fifteen months, he resigned his command and returned to
the bench, but during the reconstruction period was dis-
placed from office.

In 1866 he removed from Livingston to Greensboro, Ala.,
to retrieve his fortunes in private practice. While there he
was one of the founders and incorporators of the Southern
University, a Methodist institution. In 1868 he removed
to Birmingham, which had since been his home. In 1884
he was a member of the Legislature, and chairman of the
committee on the convict system, and in 1896 was elected
Judge of the Tenth District and re-elected in 1904.

Judge Coleman died at his home in Birmingham June 6,
1910, at the age of 84 years. He was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.

He married, October 5, 1848, Amanda Malvina, daughter
of John Cuthbert and Elizabeth (Monette) Phares, who
died in 1877. He afterward married, April 28, 1892, Mary,,
daughter of Dr. William Thornton Stuart, of Vicksburg,
Miss., who survives him with two of the seven sons by his
earlier marriage.

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Frederick Augustus Woodson, son of William and
Mary (Richardson) Woodson, was born August 18, 1824,
near New Canton, in Buckingham County, Va.

After graduation he went to California seeking for gold
and he remained there until about 1852, when he returned
by way of Cape Horn. He practiced law a few years in
Selma, Ala., but then left that profession and operated saw
mills along the line of the Rome & Dalton Railroad (now
a part of the Southern Railway system), furnishing later
the material for two of the largest gunboats in the South
during the Civil War, one of them being the Selma. In
the summer of 1862 he established the Oxford Iron Works
in northern Alabama, and operated them successfully until
they were destroyed by the Federal army near the close of
the war. New mills were constructed about two miles
distant, near an outcrop of iron ore. These he sold and
they became the foundation of the extensive foundries and
blast furnaces at Anniston, Ala. He also opened and oper-
ated the Cahaba coal mines, near Birmingham, Ala. Selling
them for a large sum he invested the proceeds in real estate
in Selma, but financial ruin soon came to him and many
others from the depreciation of property following negro
enfranchisement. Refusing to take advantage of the bank-
ruptcy law he settled with his creditors, and in 1870 removed
his family to southern Illinois. While there he invented
and patented a smoke-burning furnace, also a circulator to
prevent the accumulation of rust and mud in steam boilers.
Both of these were operated successfully, and a company
was formed for their introduction, but the panic of 1873
stopped its development.

Mr. Woodson removed to Colorado in 1880 and quietly
spent the remainder of his life in Denver, dying there
August 12, 1 910, in the 86th year of his age.

He married, April 20, 1859, Maria L., daughter of Wil-
liam and Eliza B. (Hunter) Tredwell, who survives him
with three daughters and a son, two sons and a daughter
having died.

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1846

Walter Franklin Atlee, son of John Light Atlee,
M.D., LL.D., was born October 12, 1828, in Lancaster, Pa.
His mother was Sarah Howell (Franklin) Atlee, sister of
Hon. Thomas Emlen Franklin, LL.D. (B.A. Yale 1828),
who was long a leader of the Lancaster bar.

He entered Yale in Junior year from St. Paul's College,
Flushing, L. I., and after his graduation he studied medicine
in his native place, and in Philadelphia, where he received
the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1850. He then went abroad, studying in
Paris and practicing there and in other cities for six years.

In 1856 he established himself in Philadelphia, where he
practiced his profession for over fifty years. He had lived
much of the time on his farm near Wayne, Delaware County,
Pa., until the journey back and forth became burdensome,
when he moved into the city. He saw patients up to the
time of his death, which occurred August 18, 1910. He
was in his 82d year. He was a member of the (R. C.)
Church of St. John the Evangelist in Philadelphia.

He was a frequent contributor to Hay's American Journal
of the Medical Sciences, and edited Bernard and Robin on
the Blood, and Nelatin's Clinical Surgery.

Dr. Atlee married in Paris, France, September 6, 1856,
Louise, daughter of Junior Caussade, a lawyer practicing in
that city, and had eleven children, of whom four sons and
three daughters survive. Two younger brothers, who grad-
uated from Yale College in 1849 and 185 1, respectively, are
deceased.

Frederick John Kingsbury, only son of Charles Deni-
son Kingsbury, a merchant and land owner of Waterbury,
Conn., was born in that city, January 1, 1823. His mother
was Eliza (Leavenworth) Kingsbury. Mr. Kingsbury was
the grandson of Judge John Kingsbury (Yale 1786), great-
grandson of Abner Johnson and Jesse Leavenworth, both

1846 9

members of the class of 1759, and great-great-grandson of
Rev. Mark Leavenworth (Yale 1737), all of Waterbury.

When about seventeen years of age he went to Vir-
ginia and spent nearly two years with his uncle, Rev.
Abner J. Leavenworth. His health had been delicate, but
during this time improved so much that he decided to pre-
pare for college, which he did under Seth Fuller (Yale
1838), then principal of the Waterbury Academy.

After graduation he spent a year in the Yale Law School
and a year in the office of Hon. Charles G. Loring (B.A.
Harv. 1812) of Boston, was admitted to the bar in Boston
in the summer of 1848, and then spent several months in
the office of Hon. Thomas C. Perkins (B.A. Yale 1818) in
Hartford. In the spring of 1849 he opened an office in
Waterbury and continued in practice until 1853. Since
then he had given his attention mainly to banking and
manufactures.

In 1850, also in 1858 and 1865, he represented Waterbury
in the Legislature, in the later years serving as chairman
of the committee on banks, and in 1865 was a member of
the committee for revising the statutes of Connecticut.
In 1876 he was a State commissioner at the Centennial
Exposition in Philadelphia.

He obtained in 1850 a charter for the Waterbury Savings
Bank. He was appointed treasurer and continued in its
management until January, 1909. In 1858 he established
the Citizens National Bank, of which he was president
forty-two years, and the same year was made a director
of the Scovill Manufacturing Co. In 1862 he became secre-
tary and treasurer of this company, and from 1868 to 1900
he was its president. He was also secretary of the Detroit
& Lake Superior Copper Co., organized in 1867. For a
number of years he was a director of the New York & New
England Railroad, and of the Naugatuck Railroad, both
now incorporated in the New Haven system.

He had been treasurer of the Bronson Library fund since
it was received by the city of Waterbury in 1868, and was

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chairman of the book committee of the library. He was
president of the Young Men's Christian Association in 1883,
and long secretary of St. Margaret's School. He was the
first president of the board of trustees of the Hotchkiss
School at Lakeville, Conn., and did much for the develop-
ment of the school. Since 1879 ne nad also been treasurer
of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, and
was active in its missionary work and in public charities.
He was president of the American Social Science Associa-
tion from 1894 to 1896, and again in 1900 and 1901.

While a student in college he began to plan for a Kings-
bury genealogy and gathered a great collection of material
on "The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury
of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass.," which was edited by
Mary Kingsbury Talcott and published in 1905. Several
chapters in "The Town and City of Waterbury," edited
by Rev. Dr. Joseph Anderson (D.D. Yale 1878), were writ-
ten by Mr. Kingsbury. He was a recognized authority on
church and local history from colonial times, and wrote
frequently for the Hartford Courant and other papers on
matters suggested by the wide range of his interests. Dur-
ing the early months of 19 10, the Yale Alumni Weekly
published several delightful articles of his, reminiscent of
Yale and New Haven in his college days. He was a mem-
ber of the American Antiquarian Society, the American
Historical Association, the Connecticut Academy of Arts
and Sciences, and the New Haven Colony Historical
Society.

Mr. Kingsbury was an alumni member of the Yale Cor-
poration from 1 88 1 to 1899. At the centennial celebration
of Williams College in 1893, ne received the degree of Doc-
tor of Laws, and in 1899 the same degree from Yale.

He died of heart failure after a few days' illness at his
summer home in Litchfield, Conn., September 30, 19 10. He
was in his 88th year, and kept till the end his active interest
in the affairs of life and his youthful spirit. His father was
in his 92d year at his decease in 1890.

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1 1

Mr. Kingsbury married, April 29, 185 1, Alathea Ruth,
daughter of William Henry and Eunice Ruth (Davies)
Scovill, and had two sons and three daughters, of whom
the elder son and eldest daughter are deceased. Mrs.
Kingsbury died in 1899. One sister married Franklin Car-
ter, Ph.D., LL.D. (hon. M.A. Yale 1874), former President
of Williams College.

1849

Corydon Charles Merriman was born June 4, 1827, at
Elbridge, N. Y., son of Dr. Titus Merriman, a native of
Meriden, Conn., and Polly (Backer) Merriman.

After graduation he studied law a year each in Syracuse
and Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He then engaged in farming at
Skaneateles, N. Y., two years, and from the fall of 1853
until 1858 devoted himself to banking. On account of his
health he came back to New England and lived a year at
Neponset, Mass. ; then spent two years in the manufacture
of kerosene oil in Rochester, N. Y., having also petroleum
interests in Oil City, Pa., and two years in banking, stock-
raising, and real estate business in Genesee, 111. In 1864
he returned to Rochester and continued there until 1887
occupied with scientific study, particularly in study with the
microscope. In 1885 he collected in a volume and pub-
lished about twenty-five of his essays and lectures. Since
1887 he had resided in Chicago, 111. He died after several
years of feebleness, at his country home at Sodus, N. Y.,
on his birthday, June 4, 1908, at the age of 81 years.

He married, April 12, 1850, Lucy J. Vickery, and had two
sons and two daughters. Mrs. Merriman died October 3,
1907, and a son and a daughter are also deceased.

1850

John Hiram Brewer, son of Willard and Cynthia
(Hatch) Brewer, was born July 20, 1824, at North Brook-

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field, Mass., but came to college from Slaterville, R. I.
He was prepared for college at Worcester (Mass.) Acad-
emy, and after a few months in Brown University, entered
Yale in January, 1847.

After graduation he taught for a short time in Stamford,
Conn., was principal of Bacon Academy in Colchester,
Conn., a year, then instructor in Greek in Worcester Acad-
emy until July, 1853. In the meantime he also read law in
the office of Hon. Peter C. Bacon, LL.D. (Brown 1827), and
was admitted to the bar March 15, 1853, and the same
year received the degree of Master of Arts in course. He
began practice in Worcester, being part of the time in the
office of Hon. Dwight Foster, LL.D. (B.A. Yale 1848), but
in May, 1854, removed to California, and until his retire-
ment in 1900 was actively engaged in law practice in San
Francisco, residing after 1864 in Oakland. He was a mem-
ber of the early boards of education in both cities, and took
an active interest in their educational and political devel-
opment.

Mr. Brewer died after a brief illness at his home in Oak-
land, February 12, 191 1, at the age of 86 years.

He married at Oak Point, Washington, October 6, 1862,
Margaret, daughter of Alexander S. and Eliza Abernethy,
and had three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters
graduated from the University of California in 1895, and
the son in 1903. One daughter was a student in the Grad-
uate Department at Yale from 1902 to 1905. The son died
in December, 1910, but Mrs. Brewer and the daughters
survive.

1851

William Buck Dana, eighth of the ten children of
James Dana, who was a successful hardware merchant and
for over thirty years an elder of the First Presbyterian
Church in Utica, N. Y., was born in that city August 26,
1829. His mother was Harriet (Dwight) Dana.

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After graduation he studied law, was admitted to the bar
in 1853, and practiced in Utica until 1861. He then moved
to New York and entered the publishing business, purchas-
ing Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, which had a large circula-
tion in the South. In spite of the loss of circulation, he
succeeded in continuing publication through the Civil War,
but desiring a paper of wider scope he established the Com-
mercial and Financial Chronicle, the first number of which
was issued in July, 1863. This journal he conducted to
the close of his life, providing in its weekly issues and
supplements on special subjects a mass of information of
permanent value to the commercial world. Its reliability of
statement and soundness of judgment made it an authority,
and its influence has powerfully aided in bringing about
publicity of corporation accounts and other reforms. Since
1887 his nephew, Arnold G. Dana (B.A. Yale 1883), has
been connected with the Chronicle.

Mr. Dana was the author of a volume called "Cotton Seed
to Loom."

He died in New York City, October 10, 1910, at the age
of 81 years. He had been confined to the house for some
time with a broken thigh caused by a fall, his advanced
years aggravating the trouble. He was a brother of Pro-
fessor James D wight Dana.

He married, September 18, 1855, Katherine, daughter of
Hon. John G. and Sarah B. (Kirkland) Floyd, of Mastic,
Long Island, N. Y. Under the initials "O. A. W." Mrs.
Dana was the author of many short stories, several of which
were published in a volume entitled "Our Phil and other
Stories," and also of poems. She died April 26, 1886.
They had no children of their own but had adopted four.

Bennett Warner Morse, son of Roswell and Julia H.
(Skidmore) Morse, was born August 15, 1829, in Guilford,
N. Y. He was prepared for college at Oxford (N. Y.)
Academy, and entered college at the beginning of Sopho-
more year.

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For thirty years after graduation he was engaged in
manufacturing, at first entering the service of the American
Knife Company at Plymouth Hollow, now Thomaston,
Conn. In 1854 he removed to New Haven and became sec-
retary and treasurer of the Quinnipiac Malleable Iron Co.
He was a member of the Common Council in 1861-62. He
was given the degree of Master of Arts in 1864. Continuing
to reside in New Haven, he became connected with the
Pacific Iron Works in Bridgeport, Conn., in 1865, and about
1869 became an active member of the firm of Skidmore &
Morse, builders of steam engines, boilers, and special
machinery. Besides orders for many of the largest manu-
factories of New England and New York, they executed
commissions for the Spanish and Turkish governments.

Since 1883 he had resided in Unadilla, N. Y., among his
early friends, occupied with his private interests and as a
member of the Board of Trustees of Unadilla Academy,
and later a member of the Board of Education of the Una-
dilla High School, which succeeded the Academy. He was
warden and treasurer of St. Matthew's Protestant Episco-
pal Church twenty-six years.

Mr. Morse died of old age in Unadilla, August 10, 1910,
in the 81st year of his age, and was buried in Guilford,
N. Y.

He married in Binghamton, N. Y., September 16, 1852,
Mary Ellen, daughter of Thomas and Eliza (Thomson)
Dickinson, of Guilford, N. Y.? who died in New Haven,
December 31, 1877. October 12, 1897, he married Julia
Broughton Sutton, daughter of Thomas and Eliza Sutton,
who survives him. An adopted daughter is also living.

1852

George Edwards Jackson, son of Ephraim and Beulah
(Murdock) Jackson, was born November 5, 1827, in New-
ton, Mass.

1851-1853 i5

After graduation he was instructor in the classics five
years in Alexandria, Va., spent a year in Europe and the
East, and the next year was Professor of Mathematics in
La Grange (Tenn.) Female College. He then taught a
year in the High School in New Haven, Conn., and was
principal of the Webster School, also in New Haven, the
following three years. After a year of recuperation in the
West, he became Instructor in classics in the City University
of St. Louis, and in 1867 was appointed Professor of Latin
in Washington University. He continued there to the
close of his life, becoming Professor Emeritus in 1901.

He was a director of the American Classical School at
Rome, a member of the Archaeological Institute of America,
the American Philological Association, and the Connecticut
Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the honorary
degree of Doctor of Laws from Washington University
in 1905.

Professor Jackson died of uraemia at his home in St.
Louis, October 2, 19 10, in the 83d year of his age. He
attended the Pilgrim Congregational Church.

He married, August 15, i860, Maria Elizabeth, daughter
of Col. John and Almira (King) Fisher, of Cambridge,
N. Y. She died April 28, 1884, but one son (B.A. Wash-
ington Univ. 1881) survives him.

1853

Robert Semple Young, son of Benjamin and Catherine
(Semple) Young, was born on the Clermont plantation, in
Wilkinson County, Miss., May 6, 1832. His father was
educated as a physician but devoted all his time to the
management of his cotton plantations. His mother died
when he was very young, and in 1835 his father removed
to Beaupres plantation, Adams County, Miss.

After graduation he immediately went abroad, and was
in Europe at the time of the Crimean War, commanding a

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company in the army of the Sultan. On his return he took
up the management of Clermont plantation and of the
Chantilly plantation in Catahoula Parish, La. He served as
a volunteer for short periods in the Confederate army in
Virginia and Tennessee.

He died on the Beaupres plantation, near Natchez, Miss.,
July i, 1909, in his 77th year. He never married.

1854

Thomas Willys Catlin, son of Willys and Eliza (Brins-
made) Catlin, was born April 20, 1831, in Augusta, Ga.,
but the family moved North when he was eight years of
age, and he entered the Sophomore class in Yale College
from Jacksonville, 111., where he was for two years a student
in Illinois College.

After graduation he was with his father in the book busi-
ness at Jacksonville until 1863. The next three years he
taught at Beardstown, 111., and then for three years was in
the lumber business. From 1870 to 1880 he taught in suc-
cession at Rushville, Beardstown, Delavan, Springfield, and
Havana, all in Illinois. In 1880 he removed to Deer Lodge,
Mont., which was his home to the close of his life. In 1880-
81 he was principal of the public school there; from 1881
to 1886 county superintendent of schools; from 1887 to 1890
was connected with The New Northwest, a county paper;
and in 1891 was deputy county assessor. During the last
seven years he had been public librarian and United States
commissioner. He was for thirty-five years elder of the
First Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Catlin died of paralysis at his home in Deer Lodge,
January 2, 191 1, at the age of 79 years. His burial was
at Deer Lodge.

He married, October 4, 1862, Cornelia, daughter of
Quartus Chapin, of Chicopee, Mass. Their two sons died in
infancy and she died September 8, 1869, but their daughter
survives.

1853-1854

July 17, 1875, he married Bella, daughter of Fitz W. and
Abigail Sayward, of Springfield, 111. By this marriage
there were five children, a son and four daughters. One
daughter graduated from Oberlin College as a Bachelor of
Arts in 1907. Mrs. Catlin is also living.

Charles Conrad Palfrey, son of William Taylor Pal-
frey, a sugar planter, and Sidney Ann Thurston (Conrad)
Palfrey, was born January 1, 1832, in the parish of St.
Martin, La. He was a nephew of Hon. John G. Palfrey,
D.D., LL.D. (B.A. Harv. 1815). He was prepared for
college in the North.

After graduation he spent about two years in New
Orleans, for several months being a student of medicine
there, and for some time in the employ of a commission
house. In October, 1856, he left New Orleans to be a sugar
planter in St. Mary's Parish, and though interrupted by war
and flood he continued in this work during his life, hold-
ing also in succession a number of public offices. He was
recorder of the parish in 1864-65, its state tax collector in
1869-70, Register of the United States Land Office, during
President Harrison's administration, and recently had been
U. S. Receiver of Public Moneys.

Mr. Palfrey died of pneumonia at his home in New
Orleans, December 10, 1910, in the 79th year of his age,
and was buried at Franklin, La.

He married, March 27, 1856, Mrs. Fanny Ashton Brent,
a daughter of Hon. Joshua Baker, formerly governor of
Louisiana. They had six daughters and two sons. In 1878
he and his entire family had the yellow fever and Mrs.
Palfrey and two of their daughters died. March 24, 1890,
he married Mrs. Sophia E. (Allen) Bedell, daughter of
William Porter and Caroline Permilla (Nixon) Allen, of
Franklin, St. Mary's Parish, and widow of John D. Bedell
of the same parish. She survives him with one of the
daughters and one son.

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Erskine Norman White, eldest son and third of the
eleven children of Norman White, an eminent merchant, was
born May 31, 1833, in New York City. His mother was
Mary Abiah Dodge, sister of William E. Dodge of New
York.

After graduation from college he entered Union Theo-
logical Seminary, completed the course there in 1857, was
licensed as a candidate for the ministry by the Third Presby-
tery of New York, and then spent a year and a half in study
abroad, principally in the University of Halle. June 9,
1859, a few months after his return, he was ordained by the
New York Classis pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church
at Richmond, on Staten Island, N. Y., where he remained
until November, 1862. During the preceding summer he
acted as chaplain of the Twenty-second Regiment of New
York, while it was encamped for three months at Harper's
Ferry, his brother, Charles T., and brother-in-law, Dr. Ben-
jamin Lee (B.A. Uuiv. Pa. 1852), being members of the
same regiment.

He then ministered to the Presbyterian Church of New
Rochelle, N. Y., from 1862 to 1868, and the Westminster
Presbyterian Church of Buffalo, N. Y., from 1868 to 1874,
and from November of the latter year to June, 1886, was
pastor of the West Twenty-third Street Presbyterian Church
of New York, resigning to become corresponding secretary
of the Board of Church Erection of the Presbyterian Church,
a board of which his father had been an original director.
This position he filled with marked efficiency and acceptance
for twenty-five years, carrying the responsibilities of his
office until within a week of his death. He died at his home
in New York City, February 13, 191 1, in the 78th year of
his age, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.

In 1874 New York University conferred upon him the
honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. Like his father,
he was for years a director of Union Theological Seminary.

1854-1855 i9

In addition to the number of articles in reviews and ser-
mons on special occasions which were published, Dr. White
was the author of "The Personal Influence of Abraham
Lincoln," 1865, a "History .of the West Twenty-third Street
Presbyterian Church," 1876, "Why Infants are Baptized,"
1900, and "Norman White, His Ancestors and Descend-
ants," 1905.

He married, in New York City, May 24, 1859, Eliza Tracy
Nelson, daughter of John Gill and Eunice (Ripley) Nelson,
and had four sons and two daughters. Mrs. White died
March 31, 1894, one of the sons died in infancy, and the
eldest son in 1880, while a member of the Sophomore class
at Princeton, but their other sons (B.A. Princeton 1884 and
1895, respectively) and their daughters survive him.

i855

Martin Baum Ewing, son of Alexander Hamilton and
Mary Perry (Baum) Ewing, was born March 18, 1834, in
Cincinnati, O., of which his maternal grandfather, Martin
Baum, was the first Mayor.

After his graduation from college he returned to Cin-
cinnati and was engaged in the foundry business of his
brother William for a few months, and then in the engrav-
ing and lithographing business of Middleton, Strobridge &
Co. for about three years. During the next two years he was
constructing steam pumping machinery, and managing real
estate.

In the opening year of the Civil WTar, October 19, 1861, he
enlisted as a private in Battery H of the First Ohio Light
Artillery, received his commission as Second Lieutenant
November 7 of that year, as First Lieutenant January 7,
1863, and resigned June 3, 1863. He was appointed Senior
Major in the Second Ohio Heavy Artillery July 1, 1863, and
Lieutenant-Colonel of the same regiment September 15,
1863, serving until August 30, 1865, when he was mustered
>ut at Columbus, O.

2 0 YALE COLLEGE

He took part in the battles of Winchester, Port Repub-
lic, Edinburgh Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Chancellors-
ville. He was engaged for several months in helping to
raise the Second Ohio Heavy Artillery, and on October 10,
1863, was sent to Bowling Green, Ky., in command of the
First Battalion and the fortifications there. In May, 1864,
he was transferred to the command of the post at Charles-
ton, Tenn., and in October, 1864, to that at Knoxville, Tenn.
For six weeks from December 21, 1864, he was on the staff
of Brigadier-General Ammen, Fourth Division, Twenty-
third Corps, as Inspector-General, then until the end of
May, 1865, was in command of his regiment. From that
time until his discharge in August he served on a General
Court Martial at East Greenville, Tenn.

After the war he engaged in fruit raising at Yellow
Springs, O., in 1866, then was in business in Chicago from
1869 to 1876, a period which included the time of the great
fire. In 1878 he was appointed a Deputy Collector of inter-
nal revenue at Cincinnati, where he served over seven years,
during one of which Flon. William H. Taft (B.A. Yale
1878) was Collector. He was then a fire insurance solici-
tor until 1892, and from 1896 to 1903 clerk to the chief
of detectives of the Cincinnati police department.

Colonel Ewing died in Cincinnati, May 24, 1909, at the
age of 75 years. In 1884 he was chosen vestryman of the
Church of the Advent, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati.

He married, October 4, 1855, Adelaide, daughter of
James Gordon and Nancy (Maybury) Strobridge, of Cin-
cinnati. A brother (B.A. Yale 1869) died in 1890.

George Pratt, son of Horatio and Ann Augusta (Bush-
nell) Pratt, was born March 7, 1835, at Saybrook, Conn.

The year after graduation he studied in the Yale Law
School, and the next two years was studying and traveling.
In 1858 he went West, and during the next thirty years
resided most of the time in Chicago, where he served in

i855 2I

various capacities on the Tribune, Times, and other papers
of that city. During the Civil War he enlisted from Ken-
tucky in the United States Cavalry under General Gordon
Granger.

About 1888 he was living in Omaha, Nebr., but in 1892
removed to the Pacific Coast. He wrote many articles for
newspapers and magazines.

He died of heart disease in Monrovia, Cal., March 19,
1908, aged J3 years. He never married. Two brothers
survive him.

William Reed Woodbridge, son of Rev. William Chan-
ning Woodbridge (Yale 181 1) and Lucy Ann (Reed)
Woodbridge, was born March 30, 1834, at Marblehead,
Mass. He was directly descended from Rev. Timothy
Woodbridge (Harv. 1675), one of the founders of Yale
and a Fellow from 1701 to 1732. His grandfather was
William Woodbridge (Yale 1780), and great-grandfather
Rev. Ashbel Woodbridge (Yale 1724), Fellow from 1755 to
1758.

Soon after his birth the family removed to Roxbury,
Mass., and when he was about two years old they went
abroad and spent five years in Switzerland and Germany.
His mother died in 1840, and the next year the family
returned to America, and he and his sister made their home
in Boston with an uncle, Mr. B. T. Reed. He attended
the public schools and was prepared for college by five
years of study in the Boston Latin School.

After graduation he spent several months in the study of
chemistry at Yale, and in April, 1856, became clerk at the
coal mines in Jessup, Pa. A year later he was appointed
clerk in the office of the Port Henry Iron Furnaces at
Port Henry, N. Y.

In October, 1862, he entered Gambier (O.) Seminary, in
June, 1865, upon his ordination as Deacon, took charge of
St. Paul's Church, Vergennes, Vt, and in July, 1866, was

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ordained Priest. In November, 1867, he became rector of
St. Michael's Church, Marblehead, Mass., but a month later
was taken seriously ill after service, and was advised by his
physician to withdraw from the ministry permanently. In
1 87 1 he went to Port Henry in search of health, and began
holding regular services for the Episcopal families there.
By the help of friends a church was built, and of this he
was rector. In 1876 mission services were begun at
Mineville, five miles from Port Henry, and there also a
church was erected, and at this he officiated at a weekly
service. A similar mission was instituted at Crown Point
in November, 1886.

In August, 1892, he took charge of Christ Church at
Morristown, N. Y., but his nervous system became dis-
ordered, and in September, 1893, he gave up the ministry,
and after several months at Somerville, Mass., returned to
Port Henry and recuperated there. In October, 1894, he
became assistant editor of the Essex County Republican.
The following year he was severely bitten by dogs kept by a
summer resident on a place where he was calling on busi-
ness. For several months he was private secretary to a
member of Congress, but continued to reside in Port Henry,
occupying part of the time in newspaper work.

He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., March 28, 191 1, at the
age of yy years lacking two days.

He was married December 13, i860, at Port Henry, by
his classmate, Rev. Charles Ray Palmer, D.D., to Emily
Frances Ann, daughter of Thomas and Milley (Adams)
Weatherly, and had four sons and two daughters. The
eldest son died in childhood, but Mrs. Woodbridge and their
other children survive him. The second son graduated
from Union University as a Bachelor of Science in 1886,
and the other sons from Cornell University in 1893 and
1895, respectively.

I855-I856 23

I856

Robert Lindsey Brandon, son of General William Lind-
sey Brandon and Ann Eliza (RatclifT) Brandon, was born
October 19, 1835, at Arcole, Wilkinson County, Miss. He
was prepared for college at Northampton, Mass.

The year after graduation from college he made a special
study of engineering at Yale, and returned to Mississippi.
When the Civil War began his father and two brothers
joined the Confederate forces, while he staid at home to care
for their two plantations and two hundred and forty negroes,
but in 1863, after the negroes had gone and the fields were
devastated, he enlisted as a private soldier in Colonel Stock-
dale's regiment, which formed part of General Wirt Adams's
brigade of General N. B. Forest's Division. Later he was
made aid-de-camp on the staff of his father, who was
assigned to duty in Mississippi, and received a commission
as Captain. At the close of the war he was made a prisoner
at Danville, Va., and his father and brothers were prisoners
elsewhere.

Since the war he had lived a quiet but influential life on
his plantation of seven hundred acres at Arcole, near Pinck-
neyville, Miss., where he employed one hundred and fifty or
more negroes, whom his just and kindly treatment strongly
attached to him.

Captain Brandon died of gastric paralysis at his home in
Arcole, January 31, 191 1, at the age of 75 years.

He married, February 20, 1862, Belle Semple Towles,
daughter of John Turnbull and Frances (Peyton) Towles,
who died in 1875. December 4, 1877, he married her young-
est sister, Fannie Peyton, who died in 1904. Two daugh-
ters died in childhood, but four sons and two daughters
survive him. His eldest son (Univ. Miss. 1881 ; M.D.
Tulane 1897) is a practicing physician.

James Lyman Whitney, son of Josiah Dwight Whitney,
a merchant and one of the founders of the Northampton

24 YALE COLLEGE

(Mass.) National Bank, by his second wife, Clarissa
(James) Whitney, was born in Northampton, November
28, 1835.

In his boyhood he began to live among books, drawing
inspiration from the choice library of his elder brother,
Josiah. On entering college he did volunteer library work,
and in his Senior year was Librarian of the Brothers in
Unity.

After graduation he continued his studies at Yale a few
months as Berkeley Scholar, but not wishing to be a burden
to his father in that time of financial depression, he gave
up his studies and entered the book publishing house of
Wiley & Halsted in New York City. The next year he
was a clerk for Bridgman & Co., booksellers in Springfield,
Mass., but soon became a partner in the firm then known
for about ten years as Bridgman & Whitney. In 1868 he
withdrew his active connection, but in company with W. F.
Adams under the name of Whitney & Adams continued an
interest in the book business in Springfield nearly twenty
years longer.

After spending several months in travel he was at home
with his father until the latter's death in 1869, and was then
for a few months Assistant Librarian of the Cincinnati Pub-
lic Library.

In November of that year he entered the Boston Public
Library as assistant, and in 1874 was made principal assist-
ant, having special charge of the catalogue department. He
developed the card catalogue of which he, with William A.
Wheeler (B.A. Bowdoin 1853), laid the foundation in 1871,
edited the Public Library Bulletins from 1870 including
numerous most useful special catalogues, and "A Catalogue
of the Bibliographies of Special Subjects in the Boston
Public Library." He edited the "Handbook for Readers" ;
"A Modern Proteus ; or, A List of Books Published under
more than one Title" ; "The Ticknor Catalogue of Span-
ish Literature, together with the collection of Spanish and

1856 25

Portuguese Literature in the General Library," which with
its many scholarly notes is regarded as his chief work, and is
in high repute among scholars ; "A Catalogue of the
Library of J. Montgomery Sears [B.A. Yale 1877], includ-
ing the Poetical Library of Ferdinand Freilgrath," and
"Considerations as to a Printed Catalogue in Book Form
for the Boston Public Library."

In 1899 he was appointed Librarian, succeeding Herbert
Putnam (LL.D. Yale 1907), but after a time he found his
health unequal to the administrative burdens, and in Feb-
ruary, 1903, he retired from that office, to become Chief of
Documents and Statistics. In this position he found con-
genial work in the study and arrangement of the manu-
scripts of the library. In November, 1909, at a reception
given him in honor of his forty years of service in the
library, he read a delightful paper of reminiscences of his
professional life.

During the early years of his work in Boston Mr. Whitney
lived in Concord, Mass. He was chairman of the School
Board of that town from 1879 to 1887, and was also secre-
tary of the committee of the Concord Free Library for
eight years, but for about twenty years his home had been
in Cambridge.

He died of paralysis after a two days' illness at his home
September 25, 1910, in his 75th year. He never married
and had lived with an older sister, Miss Maria Whitney,
until her death some months before. He was the last but
one of five brothers connected with Yale, the others being
Professor Josiah Dwight Whitney (B.A. Yale 1839), Pro-
fessor William Dwight Whitney (B.A. Williams 1845 ; lion.
M.A. Yale 1867), Dr. Edward Payson Whitney (B.A. Yale
1854), and Professor Henry Mitchell Whitney (B.A. Yale
1864), whose death occurred March 26, 191 1.

He long served as chairman of the book committee of the
Bostonian Society, was chairman of the committee on finance
and a charter member of the American Library Association,

26 YALE COLLEGE

and in 1897 was a delegate of the Association to the Inter-
national Convention of the American and British Associa-
tions in London. He was also a member of the Club of
Odd Volumes of Boston, and the Bibliographical Society
of America.

By his will, Mr. Whitney gave part of his estate to the
University to be used for the University Library.

1857

Jacob Staats Burnet, son of Robert Wallace and Mar-
garet (Groesbeck) Burnet, was born April 18, 1837, in Cin-
cinnati, O. He was prepared for college in Springfield, O.

After graduation he studied in the Cincinnati Law School,
was admitted to the bar in 1859, and then spent two years
in European travel. Since then he had been in active prac-
tice in his native city, until 1902, when he removed to New
York City.

Mr. Burnet died of heart failure at Watch Hill, R. I.,
July 15, 1910, at the age of 73 years.

He married at Cincinnati, June 18, 1872, Annie E., daugh-
ter of William and Mary (Payne) Stubbs, and had two
daughters and three sons, all of whom with Mrs. Burnet
survive. Two of the sons graduated from the Academical
Department in 1897 and 1898, respectively, and the other
son from Harvard University as a Bachelor of Arts in 1901.
One of the daughters married Dudley Phelps (B.A. Yale

1883).

George Wetmore Colles, seventh and youngest child
and fourth son of James Colles, a merchant of New Orleans,
La., and earlier of New York, was born in the former city,
March 13, 1837. His mother was Harriet Augusta, daugh-
ter of George and Rachel (Ogden) Wetmore.

After graduation he spent several months abroad, and
entered the Law School of Harvard University in 1859.
Leaving there the following year he received the degree of

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27

Bachelor of Laws from New York University in i860.
Upon his admission to' the New York bar in December of
that year, he at once began the practice of his profession.

In 1862 he enlisted as a private in the Twenty-second
Regiment, New York National Guard, and served at Har-
per's Ferry for three months. In 1863 he went again with
the regiment for thirty days.

He then continued his law practice, but gave special
attention to the development of real estate at Morristown,
N. J., until 1889. He was afterwards connected with the
New Jersey Title and Abstract Co.

In recent years Mr. Colles had resided in Brooklyn, where
he died January 26, 191 1, in the 74th year of his age.

He married at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., October 16, 1867,
Julia Keese Nelson, daughter of John P. Nelson, of New
Orleans, and had two daughters and a son (B.A. Yale
1892).

Alfred Lewis Edwards, son of Alfred and Sophia M.
(Lewis) Edwards, and a lineal descendant of Jonathan
Edwards, was born December 2, 1836, in New York City.

After graduation he studied law in the office of Daniel
Lord (B.A. Yale 1814) and at the Harvard Law School,
from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws
in 1861, and then practiced his profession in his native city
until 1874. For a few years he resided at Hudson, N. Y.,
but returned to New York City in 1882 and continued there
until the last few years of his life, when he made his home
in the quiet mountain village of Athol, N. Y., among his
books, devoting much time to music, playing several stringed
and wind instruments. There he died in sleep February 23,
1910, at the age of 73 years.

While in New York he was an earnest worker in the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, and while in Hudson,
an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He had been secretary,
vice-president, and president of the New York Bible Society.

28 YALE COLLEGE

He married, May 12, 1874, Arabella Stuart, daughter of
Duncan S. Magee of Watkins, N. Y. Their only child, Mrs.
Archibald K. Mackay, survives him; also a sister. Mrs.
Edwards died in June, 1908.

Samuel Martin Freeland, son of Hathorn and Lydia
(Gait) Freeland, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., November
23, 183 1. He entered Yale in Junior year from Long's
School, Hartsville, Pa.

After graduation he was principal of the High School in
Nashua, N. H., from 1858 to i860, studied theology at
Andover and Yale Seminaries and was ordained and
installed pastor of the Congregational Church in Peacedale,
R. I., in July, 1861, but on account of ill health remained
there only a year. For nearly two years from November,
1862, he was in charge of the Congregational Church in
Watertown, Conn., going thence to Detroit, Mich. In the
spring of 1866 the Second Congregational Church in that
city was organized, and he was its pastor for nine years,
in 1875 resigning to accept a call to the Eliot Church at
Newton, Mass. From there he went in 1879 to the pastorate
of the Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., in November, 1880, to the First Congregational
Church in Thomaston, Conn., and in 1886 to the South
Park Congregational Church in Chicago, where he remained
until 1889. He then served for a few months each the First
Congregational Churches of Port Townsend, Wash., San
Francisco, and Pueblo, Col., and for short periods many
other churches on the Pacific Coast, tactfully carrying
them through the intervals between pastorates. His last
sermon was preached three weeks before his death.

Since 1890 he had resided in Seattle, Wash., where he
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. F. I. Curtis, March
13, 191 1, at the age of 79 years.

He married, September 10, 1861, Elizabeth Lubeus,
daughter of William Henderson and Agnes (Lubeus) Long,

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of Philadelphia, and had a son and two daughters, of whom
only one daughter (B.A. Smith Coll. 1886) survives him.
Mrs. Freeland died November 14, 1906.

Edson Rogers, son of Earlman and Zeruiah (Whitmarsh)
Rogers, was born at Whitney's Point, Broome County,
N. Y., May 22, 1833. He was fitted for college at the
Delaware Literary Institute, at Franklin, N. Y., and joined
his class at Yale at the beginning of Junior year, returning
after graduation to the Delaware Institute for a year of
teaching.

He then took the course in Union Theological Seminary,
and spent the following year attending lectures as a Resi-
dent Licentiate in the Yale Divinity School. He was
ordained over the Congregational Church at Cincinnatus,
N. Y., October 21, 1862, and continued his service there
as pastor until April 30, 1910. From 1878 to 1882 he was
also principal of the Academy there, and from 1882 to 1885
County School Commissioner.

Mr. Rogers died at his home in Cincinnatus May 14, 191 1,
in his 78th year.

He married, August 12, 1857, Mary E., daughter of
George P. and Fanny (Brush) Hyer, of Ravenswood, L. I.,
N. Y., and had one son and three daughters, of whom the
son (Amherst 1887) and two daughters survive him. One
daughter (Smith 1884) died in January, 1910. Mrs. Rogers
died July 20, 1908.

1858

Electus Abijah Pratt, son of Abijah and Polly (Post)
Pratt, was born at Oak Hill, Greene County, N. Y., Septem-
ber 1, 1836. He was prepared for college at the Delaware
Literary Institute, in Franklin, N. Y., and joined the class
at Yale at the beginning of Sophomore year.

After graduation he taught at Evans Mills, a village near
Watertown, N. Y., then in Georgia, and again in New York
State until the Civil War began.

30 YALE COLLEGE

November 9, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Ninety-
third Regiment, New York Infantry. Two years later he
was commissioned Captain of Company G, Eighth Regiment
of United States Colored Infantry. In 1864 he was
wounded at Olustee, Fla., February 20, and again near
Darby town, Va., October 13. The latter wound necessi-
tated the amputation of his left arm, and he was conse-
quently discharged from service January 19, 1865. He
saw much hard fighting and was awarded a medal for
gallantry at Gettysburg.

Soon afterward he accepted a position in Washington,
D. C, in the United States Pay Department and continued
there until November, 1883. In the meantime he also
studied law in Columbian (now George Washington) Uni-
versity, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in
June, 1873.

At the close of 1883 he removed to Minneapolis, Minn.,
where he was a member of the firm of Pratt & Cone, loan
brokers, until April, 1893, after which he was in charge of
a portion of the law business of the Corser Investment Co.
for four years. He then returned to Washington and
became Position Clerk in the office of the Secretary of War.

For a time he resided at Silver Spring, a suburb of
Washington, but in 1900 returned to the city, where he
died from an affection of the spinal cord and acute nephritis,
October 23, 19 10, at the age of 74 years. He was buried at
Arlington.

He married in Washington, D. C, September 18, 1866,
Sarah L., daughter of John Rittenhouse and Lucretia Colt
(Skinner) Nourse, and had three sons and a daughter, of
whom but one son survives.

Captain Pratt was for several years an officer of the
Alumni Association of Washington.

1859
Louis Henry Bristol, son of William Brooks Bristol and
Mary Wolcott (Bliss) Bristol, was born in New Haven,

1858-1859

3i

Conn., March 2, 1839. His father, grandfather, and great-
grandfather were Yale graduates, in 1825, 1798 and 1760,
respectively. Until recently the family home was the house
built for his grandfather, on the site facing the Green now
occupied by the new Ives Memorial Library. He was pre-
pared for college in the Collegiate and Commercial Institute
of General William H. Russell (B.A. Yale 1833).

After graduation he studied law a year in the office of
his father and a year in the Yale Law School, was admitted
to the 'bar in September, 1862, and began practice with his
father, soon gaining a reputation for ability, sound judg-
ment, and the highest professional standards. His father
died in 1876, and in 1879 ms brother John (B.A. Yale 1877)
entered his office. In 1888 Judge Henry Stoddard (hon.
M.A. 1888) resigned from the bench of the Superior Court,
and the firm of Bristol, Stoddard & Bristol was formed. In
1902 John K. Beach (B.A. Yale 1877) an<* Samuel H.
Fisher (B.A. Yale 1889) were admitted to partnership, and
the firm became Bristol, Stoddard, Beach & Fisher.

In later years Mr. Bristol seldom appeared in court but
was the legal adviser of many, who held him in the highest
esteem. He was counsel for the University for many years,
and his firm still continues in that capacity.

He was a trustee of the Union Trust C<3., a director of
the National New Haven Bank and for many years of The
L. Candee & Co. and other manufacturing corporations.
He was also a director of the New Haven Hospital.

He was an expert in fine bindings, and took special pleas-
ure in his choice library, which included many rare volumes.
He became a member of the Grolier Club of New York in
1890. In 1909 he made a notable addition to the incunabula
of the University Library.

Mr. Bristol died at his home July 20, 1910, after a period
of ill health extending over two years. He was 71 years of
age and had never married. Besides the brother above men-
tioned, two sisters, one of them the wife of Professor

32 YALE COLLEGE

Edward S. Dana (B.A. Yale 1870), survive him. His
brother Eugene (Ph.B. Yale 1868) died April 2, 1910.

William Henry Rice, son of James Alexander and
Josephine Charlotte (Leibert) Rice, was born September 8,
1840, in Bethlehem, Pa., and was fitted for college in that
town at the parochial school of the Moravian Church and
by private tutors.

After graduation he taught in New Haven, the first year
in the Collegiate and Commercial Institute of General Rus-
sell (B.A. Yale 1833), the second year in the High School,
and the third year was a student in the Yale Theological
Seminary, where his course was interrupted by the Civil
War. In the fall of 1862 he entered the army as chaplain
of the 129th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry,
and was in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellors-
ville, and later in the Gettysburg campaign with the 34th
Pennsylvania Regiment.

After receiving an honorable discharge from the army
he completed his theological course at Yale, and was pastor
of the German Moravian Church in New Haven from Octo-
ber, 1863, to September, 1867. He had been ordained as a
minister of the Moravian Church August 17, 1862.

In May, 1868, he became pastor of the English Moravian
Church of York, Pa., remaining until June, 1876. After
short pastorates in Nazareth, Pa., and Brooklyn, N. Y., he
was pastor of the First Moravian Church in Philadelphia
from 1879 to 1885 ; of the German Moravian Church in
New York City from 1885 to 1892 ; at Staten Island, N. Y.,
the next five years ; at Gnadenhutten, O., which was founded
by his great-grandfather, John Heckewelder, until 1909 ; and
then at South Bethlehem, Pa. At the last three places
mentioned and at York he was instrumental in building new
church edifices. His volume "David Zeisberger and his
Brown Brethren," 1897, is a valuable historical work. The
historical address delivered by him at the Gnadenhutten

33

Centennial in 1898 was published in the Ohio Archaeological
Reports. In 1864 he received the degree of Master of Arts
from Yale, and in 1905 of Doctor of Divinity from Scio
College.

Dr. Rice was frequently honored with the presidency of
the District Synods of the Moravian Church in New York,
Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and in 1869 and 1899 was a dele-
gate of the American Moravian Synod to the General Synod
at Herrnhut, Saxony. He had also represented his denomi-
nation in the Evangelical Alliance and the American Tract
Society. In Ohio he was the denominational vice-president
of the State Christian Endeavor Union. He was vice-
president of the Moravian Historical Society of Pennsyl-
vania, and a life member of the Pennsylvania Historical
Society and of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical
Society.

He died of heart failure at South Bethlehem, Pa., January
10, 191 1, at the age of 70 years.

He married, May 23, 1871, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of
Rev. Francis R. and Augusta (Wolle) Holland, of Hope,
Ind. She survives him with a son (B.A. N. Y. Univ.
1893 ; M.D. Columbia 1902) and a daughter (B.A. Norm.
Coll. City N. Y. 1895).

i860

William Merrick Bristoll, eldest of the six children
of William Bontecou and Sarah (Merrick) Bristoll, was
born September 3, 1839, at Milford, Conn., but in infancy
was taken to Charleston, S. C, where his father was estab-
lished in the shoe business. At twelve years of age he
returned to Connecticut for his education, and was prepared
for college in the Milford High School and the Hopkins
Grammar School, New Haven.

After graduation he taught the village school at Frank-
ford, Sussex County, Del., a few months, and then went
back to Charleston to teach in the St. Philip Street School.

34 YALE COLLEGE

The Civil War broke up his plans, and after trying for
several months to save something from the wreck of his
father's business, he escaped by a perilous journey through
Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky to Cincinnati, and then
returned to Connecticut. After a short rest he became prin-
cipal of the Farm Ridge and Deer Park Seminary, near
Ottawa, 111., and at the beginning of 1862 took the position
of principal of the Second Ward Public School of Mil-
waukee, Wise, where he continued until July, 1863.

He then enlisted as a private in the Thirteenth Battery,
Wisconsin Volunteer Light Artillery, received a commission
as recruiting officer in September, Second Lieutenant in Jan-
uary, 1864, and First Lieutenant in January, 1865. For six-
teen months he served as an ordnance officer on the staff
of the commanding general of the Department of the Gulf.
He continued in service nearly a year after the close of the
war, being honorably discharged, June 14, 1866, with offi-
cial commendation of his efficient, faithful, and conscientious
performance of duty.

After his military service he studied for two years in
Andover Theological Seminary, and in 1868 was called to
the Professorship of the Latin Language and Literature
in Ripon College, and held also in succession the offices of
librarian, registrar, and assistant treasurer there. In 1873
he resigned from Ripon and the following year was Profes-
sor of Latin in Atlanta University, having also charge of
the library and administration office. On account of ill
health he then removed to Yankton, S. D., and became
principal of the Yankton Academy, which was transformed
into the public high school the following spring. Of this
he was temporarily principal. In February, 1875, he was
elected secretary of the Yankton board of education, and
retained the position till August, 1882. During the follow-
ing year he was Professor of Latin in the newly-established
Yankton College, and principal of the preparatory depart-
ment.

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In 1883 and 1884 he was clerk in the Hennepin County-
Savings Bank, Minneapolis, and for the next two years
was principal of the Avery Normal Institute in Charleston
under the charge of the American Missionary Association.

After devoting more than twenty years of his life to
teaching he retired from that work, and since 1886 had
been an accountant for David P. Jones & Co., brokers and
real estate dealers in Minneapolis.

Mr. Bristoll died at his home in Minneapolis June 6, 1910,
in the 71st year of his age. While in Ripon he was deacon
in the Congregational Church, and during the latter part of
his residence in Yankton he was also deacon there.

He married, December 1, 1870, Rosa, only daughter of
Leavitt Ira and Rhoda Ann (Randall) Olds of Afton,
Minn., a graduate of Ripon College in 1870, and afterward
a teacher at Ripon College, Atlanta, and Yankton. She died
about a year before him. They had no children.

Robert Stewart Davis, son of Rev. James Madison and
Isabella (McClelland) Davis, was born April 23, 1838, in
Philadelphia, Pa.

After graduation he at once began the study of law in
the office of Judge Pierce in Philadelphia. In 1863 he was
war correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer in South
Carolina, and the following year was the Washington corre-
spondent of that paper and later of the New York Times.
In 1865 he established Saturday Night, a popular weekly
paper, in which several serial stories written by him between
1868 and 1879 appeared. "As it may Happen," a story of
American life and character, was written under the pseudo-
nym "Trevor," and issued in a volume in 1879. In that
year he sold his interest in this paper, and soon afterward
joined in forming Our Continent Company, but in 1883
began the publication of The Call, a daily afternoon, family
newspaper. Continuing with The Call, in 1888 he became
connected with the advertising department of the Philadel-

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phia & Reading Railroad, and May i, 1891, was appointed
manager of the Atlantic City Railroad Co. He resigned this
position in June, 1893, and devoted his time to his newspaper
property until about 1902, when he retired from active busi-
ness. He was a member of many clubs and literary asso-
ciations, and was interested in measures for municipal
improvement.

Mr. Davis died in Philadelphia, March 17, 191 1, in the
73d year of his age.

He married in Philadelphia, September 30, 1868, Mary
Louisa, daughter of Albert and Elizabeth (Potter) Molten.
Their only child, a son, died in infancy.

Ephraim Lindsley Holmes, son of John A. and Rachel
(Lindsley) Holmes, was born at Hamden, Delaware Co.,
N. Y., February 2J, 1830.

He entered college at the beginning of Junior year from
the Delaware Literary Institute, of Franklin, N. Y.

After graduation from college he engaged in farming
and the lumber and other mercantile business in Downsville,
N. Y., and also read law in the office of Johnson & Wagner.
After his admission to the bar he was a justice of the
peace twelve years, supervisor of the town, and held other
local offices. He had a large law practice in his own and a
neighboring county, until failure of his health compelled
him to give up court practice.

His death followed a general decline dating from a rail-
road accident and occurred at his home in Downsville, June
5, 1910, at the age of 80 years.

He married, September 19, i860, Emmeline, daughter of
Harvey and Calista (Tanner) Dann, of Colchester, N. Y.
They had four sons and two daughters, of whom the daugh-
ters and one son, with Mrs. Holmes, survive him. His
eldest son, Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was the Class Boy,
died in 1894.

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Alba Levi Parsons Loomis, son of Albemarle and
Sarah Kingsbury (Hubbard) Loomis, was born in Coven-
try, Conn., August 2, 1836.

After graduation he studied at East Windsor (now
Hartford Theological Seminary) a year, and at Andover
the next two years, graduating from the latter in 1863.
On receiving license in January, 1863, he began preaching
in South Coventry, and a year later he went to Chicago,
111., where for eight months he was a missionary of the
First Presbyterian Church. In January, 1865, he accepted
a call to the Presbyterian Church at Columbus, Wise, being
ordained to the ministry August 15. The next year began
a two years' work at Fort Atkinson, followed by three years
at Elkhorn, both in Wisconsin. He was then at Downer's
Grove, 111., near Chicago, where he helped in caring for
many sufferers from the great fire. Most of the year 1873
he spent in a journey through Europe, Egypt, and the Holy
Land. On his return he was pastor at Mattoon, 111., three
years, and in Milton, Wise, from 1876 to 1881, in both
pastorates the churches receiving large accessions to mem-
bership. He was then in succession at Rosendale, Wise,
1881-86; Grand Rapids, Wise, 1886-90; Plainview, Minn.,
1890-95; Windsor, Wise, 1895-1902; Rochester, Wise,
1902-06; and at Randolph, Wise, from 1906 till his death,
April 20, 191 1. He was in his 75th year. His ministerial
service extended through 48 years, and his life was termi-
nated by general blood poisoning.

Mr. Loomis married, July 18, 1868, Fannie S., daughter
of Garry and Sarah (Ruggles) Peck, of Fort Atkinson, and
had two sons and three daughters, of whom the sons and
two daughters survive him. The elder son received the
degree of Civil Engineer from the University of Wisconsin
in 1894, and the younger son of Bachelor of Science from
Beloit College in 1908. A daughter graduated from Carle-
ton College in 1894.

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l86l

James Nevins Hyde, son of Edward Goodrich Hyde, a
merchant of New Orleans, La., was born June 21, 1840,
in Norwich, Conn. After preparation at Phillips Academy,
Andover, he entered college from New Rochelle, N. Y.,
but after Freshman year his residence was Cincinnati, O.
His mother, Hannah Huntington (Thomas) Hyde, was the
daughter of Henry Thomas of New York.

After graduation he took up the study of medicine in
the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia Uni-
versity). The following summer he aided in the transfer
of the sick and wounded of McClellan's army to northern
ports and in caring for the wounded in the battles of Fair
Oaks and Malvern Hill. In the autumn he was selected
with several other medical students for duty in the Wash-
ington hospitals and served for ten months. After this
he was ordered to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
serving on several vessels, and was then placed in charge
of the Naval Hospital in Newberne, N. C. In October,
1863, he was commissioned Assistant Surgeon in the regu-
lar navy, and after a few months at the Washington Navy
Yard, joined the flagship San Jacinto of the East Gulf
Blockading Squadron, on which he cruised in the Gulf of
Mexico in 1864. He was then on hospital duty at Key
West, Fla., and in the early part of 1865 was cruising on
the Powhatan in the West Indies. In the autumn of that
year he was ordered to the Ticonderoga of the European
squadron, on which he visited most of the ports of the
Mediterranean and part of the west African coast and
accompanied Admiral Farragut to the principal ports of
northern and western Europe. About the beginning of
1867 he returned to the United States and after serving
a year at the Clare Naval Hospital in Washington, in March,
1868, resigned from the navy.

He then attended a second course of lectures in the
Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania,

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from which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine
in 1869, and since then had practiced his profession in
Chicago, where he became one of the foremost physicians.
In 1878 he received the medical degree ad eundem from
Rush Medical College. He served as dermatologist to the
Presbyterian, Augustana, Michael Reese, and Children's
Memorial hospitals of the city, and for some years as
United States examining surgeon for pensions, and surgeon
of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway.

During most of his residence in Chicago he gave instruc-
tion in its medical schools. He was Lecturer on Skin
Diseases in Rush Medical College from 1873 to 1876, Pro-
fessor of Dermatology in Chicago Medical College (North-
western University) from 1876 to 1878, and had been
Professor of Skin Diseases in Rush Medical College (now
affiliated with Chicago University) since 1879 and secretary
of its faculty, also Professorial Lecturer on Dermatology
in the University of Chicago since 1901.

He was president of the American Dermatological Asso-
ciation in 1 88 1 and 1896, member of the International Con-
gress of Dermatology from 1889, and was a corresponding
member of the French, Berlin, and Vienna Dermatological
Societies, and honorary member of the Italian Derma-
tological Society, member of the British Medical Association,
and of other leading American and foreign medical and
scientific societies. In 1905 he was secretary of the Inter-
national Dermatological Congress. He was president of
the Yale Alumni Association of Chicago in 1881.

Dr. Hyde published several works upon diseases of the
skin which have passed through a number of editions, and
contributed a great number of articles to medical journals,
the Transactions of the American Dermatological Society
alone enumerating over one hundred. He wrote a sketch
of "Early Medical Chicago," also wrote occasionally for
magazines.

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Dr. Hyde died suddenly at his summer home at Prout's
Neck, Me., September 6, 1910, at the age of 70 years.

He married in Chicago, July 31, 1872, Alice Louise Gris-
wold. She survives him with their son, Charles Cheney
Hyde (B.A. Yale 1895), who was Lecturer on International
Law in the Yale Law School in 1907-08, and is Associate
Professor of Law in Northwestern University.

Samuel Hinckley Lyman, son of Joseph and Mary A.
(Clarke) Lyman, and grandson of Jonathan Huntington
Lyman (B.A. Yale 1802), was born January 26, 1839, in
Cleveland, O. He joined the class at the beginning of
Junior year after two years in Western Reserve College,
then at Hudson, O.

After graduation he was connected with the United States
Coast Survey for three years, being stationed in New Eng-
land, Virginia, and in the Gulf region. In August, 1864, he
began the study of law in Cleveland, continued his studies
in the Columbia Law School, was admitted to the bar in
New York City in 1867, and practiced in partnership with
his classmate, Ebenezer B. Convers, under the name of
Convers & Lyman, until 1878. In that year he was
appointed clerk of the United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York, and held that position until
1901. During the same period he was also commissioner of
the Circuit Court of the United States. He retired because
of impaired health, and devoted himself to reading and
study.

Mr. Lyman died August 9, 1910, at Nauheim, Germany,
at the age of 71 years. He was never married. A brother
survives him.

By his will Yale University is made the residuary legatee
of his estate.

Heber Samuel Thompson, son of Samuel and Elizabeth
(Cunningham) Thompson, was born August 14, 1840, in

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Pottsville, Pa., and after preparation there entered Yale
the second term of Freshman year. He was absent from
college the last term of the course, in the army, but
obtained a furlough of ten days, passed the final examina-
tions, and was graduated with his class, although on Com-
mencement day he was on duty with his company at Fort
Washington, Md. April 17, 1861, he enlisted as a private in
the Washington Artillerists of Pottsville, which was one
of the first companies to arrive for the defense of the
Capital. Reaching Washington April 18, they were quar-
tered and equipped in the Capitol, where they were wel-
comed by President Lincoln in person. They have ever
since been called "The First Defenders," and Mr. Thomp-
son had recently published a history of the companies. His
company was later incorporated in the Twenty-fifth
Pennsylvania Infantry, a three-months regiment, in which
he served until mustered out, July 29.

At the organization of the Seventh Pennsylvania Cav-
alry he entered that regiment September 16 as First Lieu-
tenant, and accompanied his corps to Kentucky, to form a
part of the Army of the Ohio, under the command of
General Don Carlos Buell, afterwards of General William
F. Rosecrans. In May, 1863, he was promoted to be Cap-
tain. He took part in the battles of Chaplin Hills or Perry-
ville, Ky. ; Stone River or Murf reesboro, McMinnville, and
Shelbyville, Tenn. ; Chickamauga, Kenesaw Mtn., Ga., and
more than a hundred minor conflicts and skirmishes. From
January to August, 1864, he was inspector of the First
Brigade, Second Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the
Cumberland. On August 20, in a desperate engagement at
Love joy's Station, Ga., twenty-eight miles south of Atlanta,
during "General Kilpatrick's raid," his horse was killed
and he was taken by the retreating Confederates as a pris-
oner. He was in captivity in Charleston, S. C, from August
30 to December 21, 1864, when he was released on parole.
During more than three months of this time he was ill

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with fever in a Confederate hospital. While still on parole
he was appointed Major, but with no opportunity for fur-
ther active service he declined the commission, resigned, and
was mustered out January 24, 1865. He was officially com-
mended for distinguished service at Sparta and Shelbyville,
Tenn., and Chickamauga and Love joy's Station, Ga.

After the war he lived for a year in Richmond, Va., deal-
ing in anthracite coal, and then returned to Pottsville, where
he was in partnership with his brother William in a general
iron and hardware business until 1871. He then took up
with Harris Brothers of that place the study of civil and
mining engineering. This was his profession during the
remainder of his life. Since 1874 he had been engineer and
agent for the Board of Directors of City Trusts of Philadel-
phia, having charge of the coal lands and mining operations
of the estate of Stephen Girard in Schuylkill and Columbia
Counties, Pa. ; he was also the general manager of the
Girard Water Co., which supplies water in that district.

He occupied many other official positions, being a director
and for a time president of the Miners' National Bank of
Pottsville and director of the Eastern Pennsylvania Railways
Co. ; since 1893 president of the board of trustees of the
State Hospital near Ashland, Pa., for injured persons of
the anthracite coal region ; a director of Pottsville Hospital ;
and for years on the county visiting committee of the Penn-
sylvania State Board of Charities, and the State Commis-
sion on Lunacy. In 1891 he was appointed by the
Governor one of a commission of three "to investigate the
waste of coal mining with a view to utilizing the waste."
They made an exhaustive report in 1893. He was a member
of the American Philosophical Society, the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania, the American Institute of Mining
Engineers, and the Mining and Metallurgical Society of
America.

He received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale in
1871.

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43

He was an elder of the First Presbyterian Church forty-
one years, and superintendent of the Sunday School
eighteen years.

Mr. Thompson died of nephritis in Pottsville, March 9,
191 1, in his 71st year.

He married January 23, 1866, Sallie E., daughter of
Isaac and Margaretta (Pitman) Beck of Pottsville, and
had three daughters (of whom the youngest died in early
childhood) and two sons. The elder son graduated from
the Academical Department in 1891. The second daughter
is the wife of James Archbald (B.A. Yale 1887).

1862

James Plummer Brown, son of John and Rebecca W.
(Plummer) Brown, was born May 7, 1841, in Pittsburg,
Pa., and entered Yale from the Western University of
Pennsylvania, now the University of Pittsburg.

After graduation he studied in the Harvard Law School,
and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1864. He
then returned to Pittsburg, studied statute law in the office
of McKnight & Carnahan six months, was admitted to the
bar of Allegheny County, and since then had practiced his
profession in his native city. From May, 1865, to April,
1869, he was a member of the firm of Carnahan & Brown,
but since then had practiced alone. For a number of years
he was also a member of the real estate firm of John C.
Brown & Co.

Mr. Brown had long suffered from ill health and died at
Pittsburg, December 5, 1910. He was 69 years of age.

He married September 26, 1867, Elizabeth, daughter of
Rufus Utley, of Rome, N. Y. She died December 8, 1906,
and their younger son died in 1898, but a son and a daughter
survive. His brother, John Campbell Brown (B.A. Yale
1865) is also living.

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Walter Lowrie McClintock, second son of Washing-
ton and Eliza (Thompson) McClintock, was born June 18,
1 841, in Pittsburg, Pa. He was fitted for college at Phillips
Academy, Andover, Mass.

During his Junior year in college he responded to the
call of President Lincoln for volunteers, and enlisted in the
Pittsburg City Guards, a company which was privately
equipped and afterwards enrolled as Company K, Twelfth
Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. At the expiration
of his three months' enlistment, which involved an absence
from college during the summer term, he returned and com-
pleted the course.

After graduation he began the study of law in New
York in the Columbia Law School, but at the end of a
year left there and returned to Pittsburg. He entered the
carpet business of Oliver McClintock & Co., founded by
his maternal grandfather (Samuel Thompson), and con-
tinued by his father, which became in 1897 The Oliver
McClintock Company and with which he was associated for
the rest of his life. He was also a director of the A. Garri-
son Foundry Co. and of the Safe Deposit & Trust Co. of
Pittsburg. He was active in the religious interests of the
city, was chosen treasurer of the Young Men's Christian
Association in 1866, when it was reorganized after the Civil
War, and was for many years vestryman, treasurer, and
Sunday School superintendent of St. Andrew's Protestant
Episcopal Church.

Mr. McClintock died after a long illness at the Hotel
Grafton in Washington, D. C, March 3, 191 1, in his 70th
year.

He married June 9, 1864, Mary C, daughter of Abram
and Mary (Clement) Garrison of Pittsburg, and had a
daughter and two sons, of whom the sons with their mother
survive. The elder son graduated from the Academical
Department in 1890, and the younger was a member of the
class of 1896, but left on account of ill health. Three

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brothers (B.A. Yale 1861, 1870, and 1875, respectively) are
living and were associated with him in business.

1863

Henry Farnam Dimock, son of Timothy Dimock (M.D.
Yale 1823), who spent his whole professional, life as a
practicing physician in Coventry, Conn., was born in South
Coventry, Conn., March 28, 1842. While a member of the
Connecticut Senate in 1846 his father was ex-officio a mem-
ber of the Yale Corporation. His mother was Laura
(Farnam) Dimock, daughter of Rev. Chauncey Booth
(B.A. Yale 1810), who was for thirty-five years pastor of
the church in Coventry.

He was fitted for college at Williston Seminary, East-
hampton, Mass.

After graduation he studied law in the Harvard Law
School, and then in the office of Hon. Abraham R. Law-
rence, Jr., who was later (1874-1901) Justice of the
Supreme Court of New York. He was admitted to the bar
in New York City and in 1865 formed a partnership with
his classmate, William Collins Whitney (whose sister he
married), under the firm name of Dimock & Whitney, but
in 1870 withdrew from law practice, and since then had
been an executive officer or director of many steamship and
railway lines, and financial and industrial corporations. He
was specially identified with the Metropolitan Steamship
Co., of which he was vice-president and treasurer.

In 1875 he was appointed Commissioner of Docks of
New York City, and served as such over six years, during
which he prepared an important bill which was passed by
the legislature for the regulation of the docks. In 1876
Governor Tilden (B.A. Yale 1837) appointed him a mem-
ber of a commission to devise a plan for the government of
the cities of the state. In later life he declined public office,
but his counsel was valued by those high in office.

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In 1899 he was elected a trustee for life of Cornell Uni-
versity but felt obliged to decline the honor. The same year
he was elected an alumni member of the Yale Corporation,
succeeding Mr. Kingsbury (B.A. 1846), and was just fin-
ishing his second term. Since 1899 ne nad been a member
of the Prudential Committee, and had been one of the
Committee on Investments since its appointment in 1905.

Mr. Dimock died of paralysis at his home in New York
City, April 10, 191 1, at the age of 69 years.

He married, September 5, 1867, Susan C, daughter of
General James Scollay and Laurinda (Collins) Whitney.
Mrs. Dimock and a daughter, Mrs. Susan Dimock Hutchin-
son, survive him.

In accordance with his will a large amount will ultimately
come to the University. The following regarding him is
from a minute of the Corporation adopted at the time of
his death:

"Deeply interested and actively engaged in promoting
its growth and prosperity, he brought to the diligent and
faithful discharge of his duties and responsibilities such a
candid, considerate, and conscientious mind, and such ripe
wisdom and sound judgment as gave great weight and value
to all his counsels."

Joseph Naphtaly, son of Samuel and Julia (Goldstone)
Naphtaly, was born September 2.2, 1842, at Gostyn, Prussia.
He came to the United States in 1850, and from that time
his home was in San Francisco, Cal., but he was fitted for
college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.

After graduation he returned to San Francisco, spent
the latter part of 1863 among the Sierras, and then began
the study of law in the office of Colonel J. B. Crockett, and
was admitted to the bar of California in 1864. From May,
1865, he was Clerk of the County Court two years, and
then entered into partnership with Colonel Crockett, con-
tinuing in that relation until his partner was elected to the
Supreme Court of the State. From 1869 to 1871 he was a

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member of the State Legislature, and chairman of the Judi-
ciary Committee. In 1876 he was nominated a Presidential
Elector, and the following year was a Democratic candidate
for the State Senate in a strong Republican district, and
though defeated he received more than the usual proportion
of votes. In 1885-86 he was the legal adviser of the city
sheriff, and from 1886 to 1894 attorney for the public
administrator. Since 1878 he had been a member of the
firm of Naphtaly, Freidenrich' & Ackerman, who made
a specialty of mercantile law. In addition to his law prac-
tice he cultivated extensive vineyards from which he made
large quantities of wine.

Mr. Naphtaly died of heart disease at his home in San
Francisco, August 29, 1910, in the 68th year of his age.
He was a trustee of the Temple Emanu-el, Pacific Orphan
Hospital, and Mount Zion Hospital.

He married in San Francisco, March 21, 1869, Sarah,
daughter of Blaize L. and Pauline (Lovel) Schmitt. She
survives him with a son and daughter.

John Hyde Peck, eldest son of John Hazen and Abby
Ann (Hyde) Peck, was born at Norwich, Conn., September
7, 1838.

When sixteen years of age he began his career as a teacher
at Franklin, Conn., the following year entered the State
Normal School, from which he graduated in 1856, taught
two years in Portland, Conn., and then prepared for college
at Wilbraham (Mass.) Academy.

While at the Normal School and Academy he was the
leader of the music, and early in his Freshman year in
college he was a member of the quartet which formed the
nucleus of the Glee Club of 1863. This club was the first
to make a concert tour, their trip through New England
arousing great interest. At the beginning of Junior year
he was appointed by the faculty the leader of the college
choir.

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After graduation he was principal of the High School
in Milford, Conn., two years, and then for thirty-one years
principal of the High School in New Britain, Conn. He
was president at various times of the Hartford County and
State Teachers' Associations, and the Connecticut Council
of Education. For a year he was Senior alderman of the
city but declined a renomination.

Resigning at New Britain in 1896, he took a year of rest,
and was then principal of the High School in West Hartford
for nine years. After his retirement from teaching in 1906
he made his home in Hartford, devoting his time to his-
torical study and genealogical research.

While living in New Britain he was for several years a
deacon of the South Congregational Church and superin-
tendent of its Sunday school, and in 1902 was chosen a
deacon of the First Congregational Church in West
Hartford.

Mr. Peck died at his home in Hartford, May 10, 191 1,
after a fortnight's illness from blood poisoning. He was
J 2 years of age.

He married in New Haven September 1, 1863, Harriet
Briscoe, daughter of Horace B. and Harriet (Briscoe)
Dibble. She died in 1871 and her three sons in infancy. In
1874 he married Mrs. Sarah Frances (Marshall) Waterman,
daughter of Dr. Obed and Frances Adelia (Whitney) Mar-
shall, of Charleston, Mass., and widow of Nehemiah Water-
man, of Toledo, O. By his second marriage he had two
sons (B.A. Yale 1898 and Ph.B. Yale 1897, respectively),
who with Mrs. Peck survive him.

1864

Lewis Gregory, son of Charles and Harriet (Clark)
Gregory, was born June 17, 1842, at Wilton, Conn., and
was prepared for college at Wilton Academy, under the
guidance of Edward Olmstead (B.A. Yale 1845), joining
the class at the beginning of Sophomore year.

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After graduation he began the course in Union Theo-
logical Seminary, but was soon called home by the long
illness and death of his mother. Later he went to Andover
Theological Seminary, completing his studies in 1868. In
September of that year he was called to the church in West
Amesbury (now Merrimac), Mass., where he was ordained
to the ministry October 15. He drew a divided membership
together, and inspired the people with good will and cour-
age. Seven years later they reluctantly released him to
serve a struggling church at Lincoln, Nebr. This frontier
town had been settled only seven years before. After
eleven years of patient toil an attractive house of worship
in one of the best locations of the flourishing city was dedi-
cated free of debt. He became a recognized leader in
the city and state, and a trusted counselor among the
churches. For thirteen years he was a member of the board
of education of Lincoln, and was chairman of the trustees
of Doane College. He was also vice-president of the
American Exchange Bank of Lincoln.

After twenty-two years of continuous service, during
which he had received nearly one thousand into member-
ship, and had aided in establishing seven other churches,
he resigned his pastorate October 1, 1898.

He withdrew from the ministry, and after a year or
more of rest and European travel, he found health and
new vigor in banking, for which his natural taste and busi-
ness experience fitted him, and in 1900 organized and
became president of the American Savings Bank in Lincoln,
continuing his loyal service to the church as a lay member.

Mr. Gregory died after a short illness from cerebral
hemorrhage at his home in Lincoln, January 6, 191 1. He
was 68 years of age. A memorial service was held Janu-
ary 8 in the church which was his monument.

Mr. Gregory married August 12, 1868, at Canton, O.,
Elizabeth Horr Buckingham, daughter of Ebenezer and
Laura (Hart) Buckingham, who died at Lincoln, July 8,

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1876. Their younger son died, but the elder son and
the daughter graduated from Nebraska State University,
respectively B.A. 1891 and Ph.B. 1895. Mr. Gregory was
married again, February 25, 1897, to Mrs. Sarah (Burgess)
Ramsdell, of Lincoln, daughter of William Hardin and
Mary (Curtis) Burgess, who survives him.

Henry Mitchell Whitney, son of Josiah Dwight and
Clarissa (James) Whitney, was born January 16, 1843, at
Northampton, Mass. He was fitted for college in a private
school there and at Williston Seminary, but gained much
of his education from public and private libraries.

He was a member of the class of 1863 through Junior
year, but then enlisted as a private in the Fifty-second
Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, a nine-months'
regiment, and served in Louisiana till the surrender of Port
Hudson, rising to the rank of Sergeant Major. Near the
end of his term of enlistment he was offered a commission
in another regiment, but was too much exhausted by the
siege of Port Hudson for further duty, and returning home,
became a member of the class of 1864 at the beginning of
its Senior year. He had previously taken a prize in English
Composition, and was chosen an editor of the Yale Literary
Magazine.

After graduation he was an officer of the United States
Christian Commission at Washington and in the armies
about Richmond till the close of the war, and the latter part
of the time was paymaster for all the Commission work in
that region.

He studied theology in 1865-66 at Princeton Theological
Seminary, and finished his course at Andover Seminary,
graduating in August, 1868. May 12, 1869, he was
ordained and installed pastor of the Congregational Church
at Geneva, 111.

Two years later he was called to Beloit College as Pro-
fessor of Rhetoric and English Literature, and continued

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there till 1899. During the early part of his service he
added oratory to his teaching, also had weekly classes in
the Greek Testament, and later in Hebrew. He delivered
many educational and patriotic addresses, chiefly in Wis-
consin and northern Illinois. For eight months in 1871-72
he supplied the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church
in Beloit, and did a similar service for the Congregational
Church in Roscoe, 111., for nearly six years. He was a
trustee of the Congregational Church of Beloit thirteen
years, superintendent of its Sunday school seven years, and
was active in other religious work. From 1876 to 1883
he was an alderman of Beloit, and in 1881 aided in founding
the Beloit Savings Bank, of which he was trustee or vice-
president while he remained in Beloit. In 1885 he declined
a call to the presidency of the University of South Dakota.

In October, 1899, he was appointed Librarian of the
Blackstone Memorial Library at Branford, Conn., and since
taking office in November of that year had devoted himself
to developing the library and making it a social and
educational center.

While abroad in 1881 Professor Whitney was elected an
honorary member of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science and during a trip in 1894 he spent
some time in study at Oxford. He represented Beloit Col-
lege at the inauguration of President Hadley in 1899. In
1900 Beloit College conferred upon him the honorary
degree of Doctor of Letters. From 1901 to 1903 he was
president of the Connecticut Library Association.

From 1883 to 1891 he spent his available time in editorial
work on the Century Dictionary, embodying in it a com-
prehensive "Dictionary of Synonyms." He was a joint
author of "The Columbian History of Education in Wis-
consin," 1893, and delivered an address before the Histor-
ical Convention in Madison in 1899, on "The Settlement of
Beloit as Typical of the Best Westward Migration of the
American Stock," which was published in the Proceedings

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of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. In 1904 he
gave an address before the New Haven Colony Historical
Society on 'The Development of Public Libraries within
the Bounds of the Old New Haven Colony," which was
separately issued by the Connecticut Library Association.
He was the American adviser in 1903-04, in the revision of
"The Twentieth Century New Testament," an English pub-
lication. He contributed many articles to the New Eng-
lander, Bibliotheca Sacra, Congregationalist, Advance, New
York Tribune, and Springfield Republican.

Professor Whitney died of heart failure at the home of
his sister-in-law, the widow of Professor William Dwight
Whitney, in New Haven, March 26, 191 1, although in
apparent good health until the day before. He was 68 years
of age, and the last survivor of thirteen children. His
brother, James Lyman Whitney (B.A. Yale 1856) died
September 25, 1910. Judge Edward Baldwin Whitney
(B.A. Yale 1878), who died January 5, 191 1, was a nephew.

He married at Geneva, 111., August 3, 1869, Frances, sister
of his classmate Albert Smith Wurts, and daughter of
Alfred Pettit and Sarah Elizabeth (Smith) Wurts of
Chicago, and had five sons and two daughters. Two of
the sons and one daughter are deceased, but the others with
Mrs. Whitney survive him. The eldest son graduated from
Beloit College in 1891, and the younger sons from Yale
College in 1898 and 1901, respectively. The daughter (B.A.
Beloit 1899) married Louis Ross Moore (B.A. Beloit
1898).

1866

Henry Burr Barnes, second son of Alfred Smith Barnes
and Harriet Elizabeth (Burr) Barnes, was born December
14, 1845, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was prepared for college
at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and Williston Semi-
nary at Easthampton, Mass.

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53

After graduation he entered business with his father in
the publishing house of A. S. Barnes & Co., and on Jan-
uary 1, 1869, was admitted to the partnership. From 1876
to 1880 he edited The International Review, which was
published by the firm. In January, 1891, part of the book
list of the firm was purchased by the American Book Co.,
and Mr. Barnes became a director of that company. In
December, 1895 he bought the remaining interests of the
old firm, and since then had devoted himself to its business,
admitting his son Courtlandt to partnership in 1905. He
was also connected with other business enterprises, being
vice-president of the Barnes Real Estate Association, and
since 1898 president of the Barnes Carriage Co. of New
York. In 1887 he was president of the Stationers' Board
of Trade of New York.

Mr. Barnes died of heart disease at his New York home
January 12, 191 1, at the age of 65 years. He had been a
member of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of New
York City since 1876, and an elder since 1893.

He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 16, 1869, Hannah
Elizabeth, daughter of Courtlandt Palmer and Hannah
Elizabeth (Williams) Dixon and sister of William P. (B.A.
Yale 1868) and Ephraim W. Dixon (B.A. Yale 1881), and
had three sons and three daughters, all of whom survive
him. The sons graduated from the Academical Department
in 1893, 1902, and 1910, respectively, and the second
daughter married Marshall Jewell Dodge (B.A. Yale 1898).
A brother is a graduate of the College in the class of 1880.

James Hewlett Cornwall, son of Samuel Matthew
and Sarah Nancy (Hoyt) Cornwall, was born June 27,
1845, at Patterson, Putnam Co., N. Y. He was prepared
for college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.

After graduation he entered the banking and brokerage
house of Robinson, Cox & Co., and continued with its
successor, Kenyon, Cox & Co. until 1873. In 1875 he

54 YALE COLLEGE

returned to Patterson, where he was a successful farmer
for many years, making a specialty of dairying, after 1900
living on the farm owned by the family since 1785. For
a number of years he spent the winters in his cottage at
Coronado Beach, Cal., but recently had gone annually to
Daytona, Fla., where he died after several years of illness
from Parkinson's disease, December 29, 1910. He was 65
years of age. He was a member of the Presbyterian
Church.

His judgment in financial matters was highly valued,
and for over thirty years he was a director of the Pawling
National Bank.

Mr. Cornwall married at Patterson, September 30, 1868,
Isabel, daughter of Dr. Nathan' William and Mary (How-
land) Wheeler, and had three sons, of whom the second
son died in early childhood, and the eldest (Ph.B. Yale
1892) in 1896. Mrs. Cornwall and the youngest son only
survive.

Eugene Kingman, son of Lucius Kingman (Brown
1830) and Lucia (Holmes) Kingman, was born August 8,
1843, m Qmncv> HI- His father was a native of Brockton,
Mass., but settled in Quincy in 1836. His mother died
when he was but two years of age.

After graduation from college he taught a year in Mon-
son, Mass., and then took the course in the College of
Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, receiving his
medical degree from Columbia University in 1870. He
then spent a year in the Rhode Island Hospital, and since
his license to practice in April, 1871, had steadily con-
tinued his professional work in Providence, R. I., with
intervals of rest and travel and periods of special study
in New York or abroad until his retirement in 1910. In
recent years he had been recognized as an authority on
nerve disorders. He was for many years a visiting physi-
cian of the Rhode Island Hospital, where he established

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55

the neurological service, and also organized the Lying-in-
Hospital of Providence and was its first chief of staff. He
was a member of the Rhode Island Medical Society and its
president in 1910, a member of the Providence Medical
Society, of the American Medical Association, was the first
president of the Rhode Island Hospital Club, and a member
of the Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology.

For more than twenty years he had spent two months
in the summer at his cottage in Lisbon, N. H., in the White
Mountains.

Dr. Kingman died from uraemia in Providence, February
26, 191 1. He was 67 years of age. He was a member of
the Beneficent Church.

He married at Quincy, 111., June 10, 1875, Lucia Collins,
and had a daughter (B.A. Smith Coll. 1900) and two sons
who graduated from Yale with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts in 1900 and 1903, respectively.

William Egbert Wheeler, son of William French and
Flora (Atkins) Wheeler, was born November 21, 1843,
at Portville, Cattaraugus County, N. Y.

He joined the class the beginning of Junior year from
Hamilton College, where he had spent a year. He was a
member of the University crew in Senior year.

Since graduation he had devoted his time to lumbering,
tanning, oil production, banking, and other kinds of busi-
ness. He was president of the Chicago Lumbering Co.
of Michigan, and of other companies holding timber lands
in California and Oregon. He had important business
interests in Olean, N. Y., being president of the Acme Mill-
ing Co. and vice-president of the First National Bank, and
for several years president of the Olean Street Railway and
Traction Co. He was also a director of the Commonwealth
Trust Co. of Buffalo, N. Y.

He was a member of the New York Legislature in 1892,
1893, and 1901, for several years president of his village

56 YALE COLLEGE

and of the local school board, and a member of the board
of County Supervisors.

Though apparently much improved after a serious ill-
ness in the winter, Mr. Wheeler died of heart trouble with
kidney complications at his home in Portville, April 28,
191 1, at the age of 67 years. He had been an elder for
eighteen years of the Presbyterian Church in Portville.

He married, October 2J, 1874, Emily Almira, daughter
of Samuel John and Caroline (Butts) Mersereau, of Port-
ville, and had three sons and a daughter. The elder sons
are Yale graduates (B.A. 1899 and Ph.B. 1900, respect-
ively), and the youngest son, Lawrence, is a member of
the present Senior class in College.

George William Young, youngest of the children of
Thomas Hamilton and Rebecca (Ricketts) Young, was
born May 28, 1844, at New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y.
He was prepared for college at the Fairfield (N. Y.) Acad-
emy.

After his graduation from college he studied a year in
the Columbia Law School but in 1868 engaged in the
manufacture of railroad supplies in Chicago, 111. The
next year he organized the Wilmington Star Coal Co., of
which he became treasurer, and in 1874 general manager.
In 1879, for the sake of his wife's health, he went to Den-
ver, Colo., where he was a member of the firm of Young &
Savin, lumber dealers. In 1883 he returned to Chicago,
and continued in the lumber business, but also acted as
trustee of the Nelson Ludington estate.

He traveled extensively and after 1901 spent much time
at his son's ranch at Carbondale, Colo. In 1904 he made
his home in St. Louis, but in 1906 he went to reside with
his sister at Elkton, Md., which had been his mother's home
for many years, and died there of heart failure, March 18,
191 1, in the 67th year of his age.

He married, November 19, 1874, at Chicago, Jennie,
daughter of Nelson and Charlotte (Spencer) Ludington.

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57

She died March 14, 1901. Their son George was a member
of the Class of 1900 in Yale College, but did not graduate.
In 1904 he married Maude Alice Neidringhaus.

While in college Mr. Young was a member of the Glee
Club, and afterward for many, years made all arrangements
for the trip of the Club to Old Point Comfort at Easter time.

1867

Charles Kinsey Cannon, son of Garrit Schenck Cannon
(Rutgers 1833) and Hannah (Kinsey) Cannon, was born
November 12, 1846, at Bordentown, N. J. He was a grand-
son of Rev. James Spencer Cannon, Professor in Rutgers
Theological Seminary. His great-grandfather, Hon. James
Kinsey, was Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme
Court. He came to Yale from Burlington (N. J.) College.

Upon graduation he began the study of law in his father's
law office, and then took the course at the Columbia Law
School, winning the first prize for the best examination in
municipal law there, and receiving the degree of Bachelor
of Laws in 1870. Since then he had practiced his profes-
sion in Hoboken, N. J. In 1877-78 he was Corporation
Attorney.

Mr. Cannon died of Bright's disease with complications,
at Morris Plains, N. J., May 29, 1909, in his 63d year.

He married, April 22, 1880, Agnes Russell, daughter of
Samuel and Sarah (Wilcox) Herbert. She died March
22, 1897, leaving a son and daughter. The son graduated
from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1902.

Morton Dexter, only son of Rev. Henry Martyn Dexter,
D.D., LL.D. (B.A. Yale 1840), and of Emeline Augusta
(Palmer) Dexter, was born July 12, 1846, in Manchester,
N. H., where his father was pastor of the Second Congre-
gational Church. In his infancy his father went to Boston
as the pastor of the Pine Street Congregational Church
(afterward the Berkeley Temple), and in 1854 took up his

58 YALE COLLEGE

residence in Roxbury, Mass. There the son was prepared
for college in the Roxbury Latin School.

In his Junior year in college he won the Yale Literary
Magazine prize medal.

In the autumn after graduation he entered Andover Theo-
logical Seminary, and completed the course there in 1870,
after which he spent two years in travel in Europe and
the East. April 30, 1873, he was ordained and installed as
the first regular pastor of the Union Congregational Church
in Taunton, Mass, He continued there five years and a
half, resigning in November, 1878, and removing to Boston
to become associate editor of The Congregationalist, with
which his father was connected as editor from 1851, and
as editor in chief from 1867 till his decease in 1890. His
special work was in the literary department, in which he
became an expert reviewer, but his versatility enabled him
if necessary to carry on almost any department of the paper.
For several years he wrote most of the distinctly religious
editorials. After his father's death Mr. Dexter became a
member of the firm of W. L. Greene & Co., proprietors
of The Congregationalist, and continued in the firm till
the paper passed into the hands of the Congregational Sun-
day School and Publishing Society in 1901.

In 1894 he published a book for young people called
"The Story of the Pilgrims," and after his retirement
from The Congregationalist he devoted himself mainly to
the task of completing "The England and Holland of the
Pilgrims," an exhaustive study, the first draft of which
his father had left nearly finished. He repeatedly visited
Europe to reinvestigate and verify the facts on which his
father's manuscript was based, and rewrote the entire work.
This authoritative volume appeared in 1905.

He was elected a member of the Massachusetts Histori-
cal Society in 1895, and to its Proceedings contributed
"Alleged Facts as to the Pilgrims" in 1895, and "The
Members of the Pilgrim Company in Leyden" in 1903,

1867 59

served three years on the Council of the society, and at the
time of his death was a member of the committee on the pub-
lication of the Bradford papers. He represented the society
as its delegate in 1901 at the four hundred and fiftieth anni-
versary of the founding of the University of Glasgow. He
was also a member of other historical societies and furnished
several valuable contributions to their publications.

He was a delegate to the International Congregational
Councils in London in 1891, in Boston in 1899, and in
Edinburgh in 1908, and was the secretary and treasurer
of the committee of the National Council of Congregational
Churches which placed a memorial tablet to John Robinson
in Ley den in 1891.

He was one of the original directors of the Yale Uni-
versity Alumni Fund, serving three years from 1890. He
had also been president of the Alumni Association of Bos-
ton.

Mr. Dexter's health had been declining for several months,
and after returning from a short European visit in June,
1910, he went to Edgartown, on Martha's Vineyard, Mass.,
where he had often spent his summers, and died there
suddenly, October 29, 1910, at the age of 64 years. Rev.
Albert E. Dunning, D.D., his classmate and associate for
many years on The Congregationalist, officiated at the
funeral services.

He married in Taunton, Mass., June 9, 1881, Emily
Loud Sanford, daughter of Hon. John Elliot Sanford. She
survives him with their two daughters.

Charles Samuel Elliot, son of Rev. Samuel Hayes
Elliot (Union 1841) and Marcia Lauretta (Harvey) Elliot,
was born December 31, 1846, at Woodbridge, Conn., where
his father was then pastor of the Congregational Church.

He was prepared for college by Rev. Elliot C. Hall (B.A.
Yale 1862) in New Haven.

60 YALE COLLEGE

Early in life he became an accomplished pianist and
organist, and while in college was active in musical mat-
ters. He was a member of the Beethoven Society, one of
the organizers of the first glee club, wrote for the Thanks-
giving Jubilees, and also wrote the Ivy Song at graduation.
He assisted in the preparation of "Carmina Yalensia,"
1867, the first Yale collection of songs, and in 1870 brought
out the first edition of the ''Songs of Yale."

After graduation he was connected with the United
States mail service for a few months, and then devoted
himself to journalism but without giving up music. In
March, 1868, he became one of the editors of the New
Haven Palladium, from 1871 until December, 1872, was
assistant editor of the Boston Post, and from April, 1873,
until 1878, managing editor of the New Haven Journal
and Courier. In January, 1875, he was engaged as organist
and choir leader at Trinity (P. E.) Church, New Haven,
closing his work there in September, 1878. He then spent
two years abroad, chiefly in Paris, studying under Alexandre
Guilmant, and serving as organist of the American Episco-
pal Church of the Holy Trinity, being also on the staff of
the Parisian, an English weekly published in Paris. Return-
ing to this country in 1880, he took up his residence in
New London, Conn., where he taught music and was organ-
ist of St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church. In Jan-
uary, 1883, he removed to Washington, D. C, and engaged
in literary and musical work, serving till January, 1888,
as Washington correspondent of the New York Commercial
Advertiser, the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, and Boston
Congregationalist. In 1885 and 1886 he prepared and
delivered with acceptance a series of lectures on musical
subjects in Washington, Boston, New Haven, New London,
and elsewhere. In 1888 he became assistant editor of the
New York Commercial Advertiser, and so continued until
the paper passed into other hands. In January, 1891, he
became editor of the New York American Exporter, but

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in December of the following year resumed newspaper
work in Washington, where for two years he was con-
nected with the News and Post. In January, 1895, he
established in New York City the musical publishing house
of Charles S. Elliot & Co., and he also acted as American
agent of the London music publishing house of Dr. Charles
Vincent. During the absence of Dr. Vincent in Australia
in 1897 Mr. Elliot was acting manager of the London house,
and while in London was chosen secretary of the Sight
Singing School of Music. He was one of the founders
of the American Guild of Organists.

In 1899 he was obliged to give up all musical work
because of deafness, but continued to use his pen with
vigor, and during 1900 did much political writing in New
York for the Republican National Committee. His last
literary work was for the Congressional Information
Bureau and the National Bureau of Statistics. He was
loyally devoted to every interest of his college class and
greatly assisted the Class Secretary in the revision of his
Class History issued in 1900.

Since 1904 Mr. Elliot had been compelled to withdraw
from all active work on account of chronic arthritis
deformans from which he suffered, but bore these six
years of painful helplessness with rare patience. He lived
with his sister, Mrs. Louise F. Davy, in Cooperstown, N. Y.,
and he died at Thanksgiving Hospital there, September 30,
1910. He was 63 years of age, and was never married.
His remains were buried in the Westville (Conn.) ceme-
tery. He was a communicant of the Episcopal Church.
His brother, Henry R. Elliot (B.A. Yale 1871), died in 1906.

Francis Henry Wilson, son of Clark and Harriet
(Halbert) Wilson, was born February II, 1843, at West-
moreland, N. Y., but spent the first ten years of his life
in Utica, N. Y. He was prepared for college by Benjamin
W. Dwight, Ph.D., LL.D. (B.A. Hamilton 1835), at Clin-
ton, N. Y.

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After graduation he taught the classics at Dr. Holbrook's
Military Academy at Sing Sing (now Ossining), N. Y.,
and was then for four years associated with his brother
Edwin (B.A. Yale 1865) in Wilson's Grammar School in
Rochester, N. Y. He went to New York City in 1873,
studied law at Columbia University, and received the degree
of Bachelor of Laws in 1875. He began practice with Hon.
Enoch L. Fancher, but after two years opened an office by
himself.

In 1884 he removed to Brooklyn, N. Y. There he was
prominent in the organization of the Union League Club,
of which he was president four successive years. In 1892 he
was chairman of the Kings County Republican Campaign
Committee. He was elected to the National House of Repre-
sentatives of the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses,
in the latter being a member of the Naval Committee.
In 1895 he formed a law partnership with Hon. James L.
Bennett, and in 1897 admitted Walter Underhill (LL.B.
Columbia 1893) to the firm. In September, 1897, he was
appointed by President McKinley postmaster of Brooklyn,
holding the office for four years.

Mr. Wilson died suddenly of heart disease at his home
in Brooklyn, September 25, 1910, at the age of 67 years.

He married, December 27, 1869, Emily F. Smith, of
New Haven, by whom he had a daughter. Mrs. Wilson
died in 1872 and in 1879 he married Annie E., daughter of
John and Rebecca (Wiley) Palmer, of New York, and had
six daughters and one son. His wife and four daughters
survive him.

1868

George Hubert Co well, son of Nelson and Jeannette
(Bronson) Cowell, was born March 25, 1840, in Waterbury,
Conn. He was prepared for college at Wesleyan Academy,
Wilbraham, Mass.

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After graduation from college he entered the Senior
class in the Columbia Law School, and upon receiving his
degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1869 began the practice of
his profession in Waterbury, continuing it there during his
life.

He early identified himself with the Republican party
and was for five years chairman of the Republican town
committee, and a member of the State Central committee
four years. After holding the office of Assistant Clerk of
the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1871, he
was Clerk the next year, and Clerk of the Senate in 1873.
In 1872-73 he was also Deputy Judge of the Waterbury
City Court. In 1875-76 he was chief clerk in the Post Office
Department in Washington, D. C, and while there was
admitted to law practice in the United States Supreme
Court. Returning to Waterbury he was Judge of the
City Court from July, 1877, to July, 1881, the next two years
Judge of the Waterbury District Court, and during his four
years of service as alderman, from 1884 to 1888, he was
chairman of the law committee of the city government.
From July, 1887, to July, 1893, he was Deputy Judge of
the Police Court. Besides holding these offices he was town
clerk, a member of the town board of health and of the
town board of school visitors, and also of the board of
education of the Center district. In 1894 he was elected to
the Connecticut House of Representatives, and was made
chairman of the Judiciary committee. After the establish-
ment by the legislature in 1895 of a new city court in
Waterbury he was chosen Judge of that court.

Judge Cowell was a member of many fraternal organi-
zations, and worked effectively to secure the erection of the
Odd Fellows' Home at Groton, Conn.

In addition to his legal, judicial, and public interests he
was largely concerned in real estate matters, and had built
more than fifty houses. He was also president for years of
the West Side Savings Bank.

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He held various official positions in the Methodist Church,
of which he was long a member.

He died of cancer of the intestines at his home in Water-
bury, August 10, 19 10, at the age of 70 years.

He married in Washington, D. C, November 11, 1878,
Alice Sewell Barton, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth
(Sewell) Barton, and had a son and two daughters. Mrs.
Cowell and one daughter only are living.

John Kinne Hyde DeForest, son of Rev. William
Albert Hyde (Amh. 1829) and Martha White (Sackett)
Hyde, was born June 20, 1845, *n Westbrook, Conn., where
his father was pastor of the Congregational Church until
1854, after which the family home was for ten years in
Greenwich, Conn. To his original name of Hyde, he added
that of DeForest, the name of a benefactor of his college
days. He was prepared for college at Phillips (Andover)
Academy. In 1862-63, he had served in Florida with the
Twenty-eighth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers.

He joined the class the second term of Freshman year,
after two months in the class of 1867 a year earlier.

After graduation from college he entered the Yale
Divinity School, completed his theological course three years
later, and May 24, 1871, was ordained and installed pastor
of the Congregational Church at Mount Carmel, Conn.
During his three years there he greatly increased the
efficiency of the church. In July, 1874, he resigned to
become a missionary of the American Board of Commis-
sioners for Foreign Missions, and October 31, in company
with Arthur H. Adams, M.D. (B.A. Yale 1867) and Rev.
Joseph H. Neesima, LL.D. (Ph.D. Amh. 1870), he sailed
from San Francisco to join the Japan mission, which had
been established only five years before. His home during
the first twelve years was in the commercial city of Osaka.
After gaining through five years of hard study a thorough
mastery of the language, he visited on evangelistic tours most

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of the large cities in central Japan, addressing the people in
the theaters. He was identified with the founding of five
of the Congregational churches in Osaka, and gave himself
with enthusiasm to all agencies for the social, educational,
and spiritual advancement of the people. The greater
part of his missionary life however was spent in Sendai, less
open to Western influence, but the educational and military
center of northern Japan. He removed there in 1886 and
for five years was connected with a Christian school estab-
lished by prominent Japanese. Afterward he devoted him-
self to general missionary work, writing, preaching, and
traveling extensively. His attractive personality and
unusual facility in speaking the language, his thorough
knowledge of conditions and deep sympathy with every
phase of Japanese life, brought him into intimate relations
with the leaders of all classes, Christian and non-Christian.
He deprecated sectarianism and was in special sympathy
with the leaders of the Kumi-ai churches.

He was vice-president of the Peace Society of America,
and aided greatly by his writings and public addresses in
preventing misunderstandings between the United States
and Japan and in promoting friendly relations. For his
service to international peace especially during his last visit
to America, his work under imperial patronage for the aid
of the soldiers in Manchuria, and his relief work during the
famine, the Emperor of Japan conferred upon him Decem-
ber 11, 1908, soon after his return to that country the Fourth
Order of the Rising Sun. In 1889 Yale honored him with
the degree of Doctor of Divinity.

He was secretary of his mission station and a member
of the publishing and evangelical committees of the Ameri-
can Board in Japan. In connection with this work he pub-
lished several volumes and a large number of pamphlets and
magazine articles in Japanese, besides many contributions to
the press in English. His volume "Sunrise in the Sunrise
Kingdom," 1904, was written for mission study classes

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under the direction of the Young People's Missionary
Movement.

During his long service his influence had been constantly
widening, and the Japanese Christians were preparing to
celebrate his quarter-century of residence in Sendai and
show their esteem for him by erecting a memorial church.
He died at Sendai, May 8, 191 1, in the 66th year of his age,
after an illness of several months during which his Japanese
friends showed deep sympathy and concern. By order of
the Japanese Government, military honors were paid him
at his funeral.

He married in New Haven, June 5, 1871, Miss S. C.
Conklin, who died in March, 1872. September 23, 1874, he
was married to Sarah Elizabeth Starr, of Guilford, Conn.,
who survives him with a son (B.S. Amh. 1906) and three
daughters, one daughter having died in early childhood.
His brother (M.D. Yale 1861) died in 1907.

Donald MacGregor, youngest of the four children of
James and Christiana (MacMartin) MacGregor, was born
November 30, 1847, m Utica, N. Y. His father died about
1869, and his mother in 1891. He was fitted for college at
Albany (N. Y.) Academy, but entered as a resident of
Brooklyn, N. Y.

After graduation he studied three years in Princeton
Theological Seminary, was ordained by the Presbytery of
Troy, N. Y., September 24, 1872, and was then for over
thirty-seven years pastor of the Park Presbyterian Church
in that city. In addition to the work of his own church he
developed among the Armenians in Troy an Armenian
Presbyterian Church under the care of a pastor. He was
an attractive preacher, but ambitious only for service.
None of his sermons or lectures were printed.

Mr. MacGregor died of apoplexy, May 11, 1910, in
Watervliet, formerly West Troy, N. Y., at the home of Mr.
Frederick W. Orr, with whom he had resided for thirty-

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five years. He was in the 63d year of his age, and had
never married.

William Roumage Shelton, son of William J. Shelton,
a druggist, and Mary (Hough) Shelton, was born Septem-
ber 11, 1845, m -Bridgeport, Conn. He was prepared for
college by Hubbard Arnold (B.A. Yale 1861), and joined
the class at the beginning of Sophomore year. In 1866 he
was appointed a cadet at Wrest Point, but he finished his
studies at Yale, and a younger brother went to West Point.

After graduation he studied law in Bridgeport, was
admitted to the bar in June, 1872, and had since practiced
his profession in his native city, holding during most of this
time official positions connected with the courts. In 1874-
75 he was Assistant City Attorney, from 1875 to 1877
Deputy Judge of the City Court, in July, 1884, was
appointed Assistant Clerk of the Superior Court, and in
October of the same year Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas for Fairfield County. In April, 1891, he was
appointed Clerk of the Superior Court and of the Supreme
Court of Errors. This last office he continued to hold
until 1908.

Mr. Shelton died after an illness of several years at the
home of his sister, Mrs. William H. Stevenson, in Bridge-
port, January 13, 191 1, at the age of 65 years. He was
never married.

Samuel Tweedy, son of Edgar S. Tweedy, a leading
manufacturer of Danbury, Conn., and an original director
of the Danbury & Norwalk Railroad (now included in the
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad), was born
in Danbury, April 21, 1846. His mother was Elizabeth
Sarah (Belden) Tweedy. He was prepared for college at
Wilton (Conn.) Academy.

After his graduation he studied law a year and a half in
Columbia Law School, then some months in the office of

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Averill & Brewster at Danbury, was admitted to the bar
January 19, 1871, at Bridgeport, and was a partner in Dan-
bury with Hon. Lyman D. Brewster (B.A. Yale 1855) in
the firm of Brewster & Tweedy until 1878, when Howard B.
Scott (Amh. 1874) was admitted to the firm. Mr. Brewster
withdrew in September, 1892, and the firm of Tweedy, Scott
& Whittlesey was formed with Granville Whittlesey as a
third member. In recent years his firm had been Tweedy
& Ives.

Mr. Tweedy died after a short illness from acute Bright's
disease at his summer home on Belle Island, South Norwalk,
October 6, 19JO, at the age of 64 years.

He married at Danbury, July 16, 1879, Mrs. Carrie M.
Krom, daughter of Ira and Adah M. (Barden) Miller, who
survives him with his daughter and step-son.

1869

Samuel Dutton Gilbert, son of Rev. Edwin Randolph
Gilbert (B.A. Yale 1829) and Dorcas (Dutton) Gilbert, was
born July 15, 1848, in Wallingford, Conn. His father, for
over forty years the faithful pastor of the First Congrega-
tional Church there, a great admirer of Professor Nathaniel
William Taylor and an excellent representative of his system
of theology, was a member of the Yale Corporation from
1849 unt^ his decease in 1874. His mother died when he
was only a year old, and he was brought to New Haven
and lived with his uncle, Rev. Samuel W. S. Dutton, D.D.
(B.A. Yale 1833), pastor of the North Church. He studied
in the Hopkins Grammar School two years before entering
college.

After graduation he entered the Yale Medical School and
received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1871, during
a year of his course being assistant to Dr. T. B. Townsend
(M.D. Yale 1858). After spending a year in medical study
in Dublin, London, Edinburgh, and Paris, he settled in prac-
tice in New Haven, residing in Fair Haven till 1887, and
since then on Wall street, New Haven.

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He was a director of the New Haven Hospital, and for
twenty-five years was one of the attending physicians. He
greatly aided in establishing the Visiting Nurse Association,
in 1904, and served continuously on its advisory board. He
was a member of the New Haven Medical Association
thirty-seven years and its president in 1890-91. In 1909 he
was elected president of the Connecticut Medical Society.
He was a deacon of the United (formerly North) Congre-
gational Church, of which he had been a member since 1863.

He married, June 15, 1875, Ellen Miriam, daughter of
Samuel and Eliza (Munson) Peck of Wallingford. Mrs.
Gilbert died September 25, 1901.

While returning from a short summer vacation abroad Dr.
Gilbert died suddenly of heart disease on board the Steamer
Lapland, September 27, 1910, at the age of 62 years. The
funeral service was in the United Church, New Haven, and
the interment in the Grove Street Cemetery.

William Parsons Watson, son of Hon. Samuel Watson
(Brown 1825) and Charlotte (Morton) Watson, was born
August 1, 1848, at Sycamore, Cheatham County, Tenn. His
father was a native of Rhode Island, a trustee of Nashville
University and of the Peabody Education Fund, and died
in 1876. His mother was a daughter of Governor Morton
of Massachusetts. He was prepared for college at the Hop-
kins Grammar School in New Haven.

After graduation he returned to Tennessee, and became
superintendent of the Sycamore Manufacturing Co., pow-
der manufacturers, and at the same time engaged in the
making of wagon wood-work. Several years later he
removed to Nashville and devoted himself to civil engineer-
ing. For a year he was in the employ of the United States
government in Washington, D. C, and about 1881 took
up work on the western railroads, for two years on the
Northern Pacific Railroad in Montana, and then on the
Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia. In 1890 he

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became assistant engineer in charge of location and con-
struction on the Seattle & Montana Railroad. He com-
pleted the line in 1892, and the following year had charge
of the surveys and estimates of the United States Com-
mission for the improvement of the Columbia River at The
Dalles, Ore. In 1894 he was appointed by President Cleve-
land Surveyor-General of the state of Washington and
served nearly five years. Since then he had been locating
engineer of the Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific, and Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railways and finally chief engineer
of a new railway line under construction into Seattle.

Mr. Watson died of pneumonia in Seattle, Wash., Decem-
ber 20, 1910. He was 62 years of age. He was buried in
Nashville.

He married in Seattle, in December, 1892, Jessie, daughter
of Major W. S. Harlan, of Zanesville, O., and had three
daughters, who with Mrs. Watson survive him.

Theodore Frelingiiuysen Welch, son of Porter J. and
Evelyn Welch, was born December 19, 1846, at Gowanda,
Cattaraugus County, N. Y. He was fitted for college at
the State Model School in Trenton, N. J.

After graduation he taught school and studied law a few
months at Gowanda, and then became principal of the
Academy and Union Graded High School at Addison, N. Y.,
which he developed with success. In July, 1872, he resigned,
and was managing clerk in the law office of Bowen, Rogers
& Locke, in Buffalo for a time, then practiced by himself
until 1888, when he went into the lumber business. In
1906 he removed to California, and resumed practice in Los
Angeles. He died at his home in Pasadena, April 14, 191 1,
at the age of 64 years. During the winter he had suffered
a slight stroke of apoplexy.

He married, June 20, 1889, in Gowanda, Jennie, daughter
of Cyrenius C. and Mary Torrence, who survives him with
two sons, the elder a Sophomore in the College, and a
daughter.

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1870

Arthur Power Crane, son of Calvin and Deborah
(Power) Crane, was born July 7, 1846, at Adrian, Mich.

After graduation he took the course in the Columbia Law
School, receiving- the degree of Bachelor of Laws in May,
1872, and soon afterward was admitted to the bar. For the
two years following he was in Europe, and attended lectures
on civil law and literature at Heidelberg University. On his
return home he began practice in Adrian, but since January,
1875, had practiced his profession in Toledo, O. He had
also given much attention to the care of land which he
owned near Adrian. He was retiring in disposition, but
had many friends especially among yachtsmen, and was an
officer of the Toledo Yacht Club. He was a member of
many secret societies, and was a student of Masonic history.

Mr. Crane died at his rooms in the house of Colonel
LaFayette Lyttle in Toledo, April 28, 191 1. He was in his
65th year, and never married.

Daniel Jones Griffith, son of Griffith William and
Mary (Jones) Griffith, was born August 6, 1848, in New
York City. He was mainly prepared for college in that city,
but later studied under Mr. James M. B. Dwight (B.A.
Yale 1846). He was a member of the class of 1869 in
Sophomore and Junior years, and then joined the class of
1870.

After graduation he was in the Nassau Bank in New
York City until July, 1872, and for several years afterward
in the brewing business with his uncle, David Jones.

While in college he was known for his musical ability, and
afterward held various church choir positions. He culti-
vated his voice further during a residence of seven years in
Germany, chiefly in Dresden, where he sang at the festival
in Leipsic on the fiftieth anniversary of Rubinstein's first
appearance in that city, and was received with marked favor
at a number of German festivals.

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During his later years he lived in New York City or in
Saratoga Springs, N. Y. In the latter place he was a vestry-
man of Bethescla Church, and added to the attractiveness of
the service by his fine solo work.

Mr. Griffith died in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., July 2, 1909,
in his 6 1 st year. A sister survives him.

Sands Fish Randall, second and last survivor of the
four children of Elias Perkins and Hannah (Fish) Randall,
was born May 18, 1846, in Mystic, a village in the town of
.Stonington, Conn. He was fitted for college in Stonington.

He graduated from college with high rank, and after
spending a few months in teaching, entered the Columbia
Law School, from which he received the degree of Bachelor
of Laws in 1873. Beginning in the office of Stanley, Brown
& Clark in New York City, he continued practice in that city
for over thirty-five years, but spent his summers at his old
home in Mystic. For some time his health had been grad-
ually failing, but he remained in New York until June, 1910,
when he returned to Mystic. He died of pneumonia at the
Memorial Hospital in New London, May 15, 191 1. He was
nearly 65 years of age, and had never married.

1871

Henry Baldwin, son of Rev. Theron Baldwin, D.D.
(B.A. Yale 1827), and Caroline (Wilder) Baldwin, was
born in Newark, N. J., December 17, 1846. His father was
active in procuring the charter of Illinois College, of which
he was a trustee till his death in 1870, and was for twenty-
seven years corresponding secretary of the Society for the
Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the
West. The son was fitted for college at the High School
in Hartford, Conn.

While in college he contributed prose and verse to the
Yale Literary Magazine, wrote for the Glee Club " 'Neath
the Elms of Dear Old Yale" and "Come Rally To-night,"
and published a patriotic poem, "My Answer."

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During the summer after graduation he went to Minneap-
olis, Minn., with the intention of settling there, but not
finding the climate suited to him returned East in the early
winter. In 1872 he entered the School of the Fine Arts
and continued there as a student nearly five years, during
this time living in New Haven and Hartford, and teaching
drawing in several private schools.

In 1884 he published a monograph "The Orchids of
New England," illustrated by himself. The same year he
contributed a chapter on "Social Life in Hartford after the
Revolution" to "The Memorial History of Hartford
County," for which he also furnished several illustrations.
Later in that year he joined the staff of the "International
Cyclopedia," of which he was office editor from 1885 to
the end of 189 1. In 1892 he held the same position on
The Art Amateur, and since then had been chiefly engaged
as a reviser and writer for cyclopedias. During these years
he contributed to leading periodicals a number of poems,
stories, plays, and articles on various subjects, which bore
witness to his humorous and artistic gifts. At the One
Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Congregational
Church at Goshen, Conn., he read an original poem. For
more than twenty years he was secretary of his class and
published two of the Class Records.

For about ten years his home was in East Orange, N. J.,
but since 1893 he had lived in New York City. His sum-
mer vacations were spent in Charlotte, Vt.

Mr. Baldwin died of pneumonia in New York City, May
30, 191 1, at the age of 64 years. He never married. For
a time he was a deacon of Trinity Congregational Church,
East Orange, N. J. His brother, Theron Baldwin (B.A.
Yale 1861), died in 1901. A sister was the wife of Charles
E. Fellowes (B.A. Yale 1856).

Albert Seessel, son of Abraham and Theresa (Sichel)
Seessel, was born in Natchez, Miss., January 27, 1850. He

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entered Yale from the Sophomore class at Columbia Uni-
versity.

For a year and a half after graduation he was in business
with his father, and was then in Europe four years, during
that time having taken a medical course in the University
of Leipsic and graduated with honor there in 1876. He was
also Prosector at the Biological Institute of Leipsic.

On his return to this country in May, 1877, he opened an
office in New York City, where, except for two years spent
in New Mexico on account of his health, he had since con-
tinued in practice. Soon after settling there he declined a
Lectureship in the University of Tubingen, but the same
year gave courses in histology in the College of Physicians
and Surgeons in New York. He was neurologist of the
Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids, and contributed
articles on neurology to medical periodicals.

Dr. Seessel died after a short illness from pneumonia at
the German Hospital in New York City, December 24, 19 10,
at the age of 60 years. He was unmarried. He was buried
at Hicksville, L. I., N. Y.

1872

George Roszelle Milburn, son of Benedict and Martha
(Page) Milburn, was born November 15, 1850, in Washing-
ton, D. C, and was fitted for college at Rittenhouse Acad-
emy there.

For several years after graduation he was in the real
estate business in his native city, and was then examiner of
pension claims in the Interior Department. Meantime he
studied in the National University Law School, and at
once, after receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws in
June, 1880, removed on account of failing health to Santa
Fe, N. M. The following February he was admitted to the
bar in New Mexico but did not begin practice until later.

In 1882 he was appointed United States Special Indian
Agent in Dakota and Montana and settled in Montana in

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1 883. In 1885 he resigned from the government service
and the next year took up active law practice in Miles City,
being also County Attorney from 1886 to 1888. When Mon-
tana was admitted to the Union in 1889 he was elected Judge
of the Seventh Judicial District, and served in that capacity
eight years. He then resumed the practice of law, but in
1900 was elected Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
Montana, assuming the office January 7, 1901, and contin-
uing till January, 1907. He then resumed the practice of
law in Miles City.

Judge Milburn died of chronic bronchitis at Helena,
Mont., June 24, 1910, in the 60th year of his age.

He married in Washington, D. C, December 7, 1875,
Eugenie Prentiss Bliss, daughter of D. Willard Bliss, M.D.,
and Sophie (Prentiss) Bliss, and had three sons and a daugh-
ter. One of the sons was for three years a member of the
class of 1905 in the Academical Department. Mrs. Milburn
died January 8, 1901.

Samuel William Weiss, son of William and Caroline
(Lewi) Weiss, was born September 2, 1852, in Honesdale,
Pa. He came to New Haven in 1867 and spent a year in the
Hopkins Grammar School before entering college.

Upon his graduation from college he entered a law office
in New York City and studied in Columbia Law School,
from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in
1874. From that year he devoted himself entirely to the
practice of law, first as a member of the firm of Frank
& Weiss, and afterward alone, specializing particularly
in real estate and corporation law. He had no desire
for public office, but for many years lived quietly in his
home on the upper part of Manhattan Island. There he
died after a short illness November 20, 19 10, at the age of
58 years.

He married, 1887, in New York City, Carrie, daughter of
Louis and Yette (Hackes) Stix, and had two sons and

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two daughters, who with their mother survive him. The
elder son graduated from the Academical Department in
1908, and the elder daughter is a member of the graduating
class of Wellesley College.

A suite of rooms in the new Wright Dormitory has been
given by Mrs. Weiss in memory of her husband.

1873

Andrew James Reynolds, son of Henry A. Reynolds, a
farmer and merchant, and Caroline (Van Home) Reynolds,
was born in Olcott, Niagara County, N. Y., July 20, 1844.
After a year at Cornell University he joined the class at
Yale at the beginning of Sophomore year.

Immediately after graduation he visited Indian Territory,
where two of his brothers were engaged in business, but
returned the next year, studied law in Lockport, N. Y., and
was admitted to the bar in April, 1877. His brothers, how-
ever, induced him to become an Indian trader in Anadarko,
Ind. Ty. He remained there until the winter of 1888-89,
when he returned to Lockport on account of failing health,
his family having come back some time before. The follow-
ing summer he removed to Ouray, Colo., to become cashier
of several mining companies which he and his brothers con-
trolled, and remained there most of the time until 1903.

For over twenty years he suffered from ill health, which
began with sciatica and then took the form of general
neuritis. Several months in Denver and Kansas City at the
homes of his brothers, and three years in a Kansas City
sanitarium brought improvement, and in 1907 he settled in
Boulder, Colo., but continued to suffer from nervous
trouble.

He died in Boulder, August 25, 1910, at the age of 66
years.

He married in Lockport, February 4, 1875, Ella M. White,
who survives him with three sons. A daughter died in
infancy. The eldest son spent two years in Union College

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and then took an engineering course at the University of
Colorado, and the younger sons took the degree of Bache-
lor of Arts at the University of Colorado in 1904 and 1908,
respectively. The second son also received the degree of
Bachelor of Laws from Harvard University in 1908.

1875

Alfred Edward Okey was born August 12, 1848, in
Arlington, 111., the son of John Okey. He was prepared for
college at Jennings Seminary, Aurora, 111.

After graduation he studied law for a year or two and
then took the course in the Chicago Medical School, receiv-
ing his medical degree in 188 1. He began practice in Iowa,
but removed to Ivesdale, 111., and later to Nebraska, being
at Platte Center and Genoa for some years, after which he
established himself in Lincoln. He died there June 19, 1910,
in his 62d year.

Dr. Okey married Virginia Cook, who survives him with
a son.

1876

Frank Chamberlin, son of Moses and Jane Hammond
Chamberlin, was born July 1, 1853, at Milton, Pa. He
spent the last year before entering college in the Hopkins
Grammar School, New Haven.

The winter after graduation he taught school in Milton,
Pa., then spent two years in the study of law in Bellefonte,
Pa., and was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1879. After
practicing three months in the office of Hon. John B. Linn
(Marshall Coll. 1848), formerly Secretary of State of
Pennsylvania, he returned to Milton, where he was local
editor of The Miltonian about ten years, and afterwards
retired.

He died of a complication of diseases at his home in Phil-
adelphia, Pa., October 31, 1910, at the age of 57 years.

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He married, November 8, 1907, Hannah Wraight, who
survives him. They had no children.

James Brooks Dill, elder son of Rev. James Horlon
Dill (B.A. Yale 1843) and Catharine Darling (Brooks)
Dill, was born July 25, 1854, at Spencerport, N. Y. In
1859 his father was called to the pastorate of the South
Congregational Church in Chicago, but in 1862 became
chaplain of the 89th Illinois Regiment of Volunteers and
died in the service early in 1863. After three years of
study in the preparatory department of Oberlin College
and a year in that College as Freshman, the son came to
Yale and entered as a Freshman.

After graduation he taught a year in a private school
in Philadelphia and at the same time studied law in an
office. The next year he was a teacher in Stevens Insti-
tute, Hoboken, and attended the New York University Law
School, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of
Laws in 1878. In May of that year he was admitted to
the bar of New York State, and from that time practiced
his profession in New York City, for some time in the
firm of Dill, Chandler & Seymour (B.A. Yale 1881).
His successful defense of his client in a case in which
the directors of a commercial agency on account of fail-
ure to file certain required statements were held liable for
its debts, attracted attention in legal circles, and incidentally
turned his attention to the subject of corporations, to the
study of which he bent all his energies. He soon began
organizing companies, and published a pamphlet, 'The
Advantages of Business Corporations," which was one of
the first treatises on the subject. This was followed by
"Dill on Corporations," and other books on legal and eco-
nomic topics. In 1892 a Corporation Registration Law,
embodying suggestions of his, was adopted by New Jersey,
which protected the corporations and resulted in a large
state revenue. The same year he organized the Corporation

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Trust Co. of New Jersey, and had a share in the organi-
zation of a great number of other corporations. In 1894
he was appointed a member of the committee for revising
the corporation laws of New Jersey, and two years later
chairman of the committee to revise the state's financial
laws. In New York state and elsewhere he was also
highly regarded as a corporation expert. His success in
securing out of court a settlement of serious differences
between leaders of the steel trade and soon after in organ-
izing the United States Steel Corporation greatly increased
his reputation. From 1901 to 1905 he was in partnership
with Hon. John W. Griggs (Princeton 1896). In 1903
he delivered a suggestive address before the Harvard Law
School on "National Incorporations."

In 1905 he accepted the appointment of lay Judge of
the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals, and held
the office five years, resigning only a short time before his
death. His decisions and addresses while judge showed
him as a courageous and impartial critic of corporations.
He was a trustee of Smith College. He received the hon-
orary degree of Doctor of Laws from New York University
in 1910.

His home for many years had been in East Orange, N. J.
He had made extensive land purchases at Brooksvale, the
home of his ancestors in Cheshire, Conn., and had recently
spent part of the summer there. He was fond of outdoor
sports, especially horseback riding, and was president of
the Orange Riding Club.

Judge Dill died of pneumonia at his home in East Orange,
December 2, 1910, at the age of 56 years.

He married, October 21, 1880, May W., daughter of
Standish Forde and Emma W. Hansell, of Philadelphia,
and had four daughters, of whom three, with Mrs. Dill,
survive him. His eldest daughter graduated from Smith
College in 1904. His mother died in 1908 in her 88th year,
but his brother (B.A. Yale 1880) is living.

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1877

John Frisbee Keator, son of Abram J. Keator, owner
of an extensive dairy farm in Roxbury, N. Y., was born
there April 16, 1850. His mother was Ruth (Frisbee)
Keator. After teaching- in several district schools in and
near Roxbury he was prepared for college at Williston
Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.

During his college course he served as Class Deacon and
for two years was superintendent of the Bethany Mission.
In Junior year he was chosen one of the editors of The Col-
lege Courant.

After graduation he studied in the Law Department of
the University of Pennsylvania, and received the degree of
Bachelor of Laws in 1879. He was admitted to the
Pennsylvania bar the same year, and to the bar of the
United States Supreme Court in 1890. He was head of the
firm of Keator & Johnson. His services as a counselor were
especially valued. For several years he was one of the
examiners of candidates for admission to the bar.

His residence for many years was in the Germantown
district of Philadelphia, from which he was twice elected
to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, serving from
1896 to 1899. His service there was distinguished for his
independence of political control and for his devotion to the
public interest. He made many public addresses, some of
which were published in pamphlet form.

He was active in religious and philanthropic work, was a
trustee of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of German-
town, was chiefly instrumental in building the Methodist
Church of St. Matthew and was for some years superin-
tendent of St. Matthew's Mission. He was a manager of
the Methodist Orphanage and of the Methodist Episcopal
Hospital, and a director in the American Sunday School
Union.

Mr. Keator had been in failing health for several years
from arterio-sclerosis and for two months had been at a

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private sanitarium at Newton Highlands, Mass., under the
professional care of his classmates, Drs. Samuel L. Eaton
and Frederick B. Percy. There he died November 17,
19 10. He was 60 years of age. A memorial service was
held November 30 in the First Methodist Episcopal Church
of Germantown.

He married, February 10, 1885, Anna Walter Sweatman,
daughter of Virtue C. Sweatman, and had three sons and
two daughters, of whom two sons and one daughter with
Mrs. Keator are living. His brother, Bruce S. Keator,
M.D., is a graduate of the College in the class of 1879.

1878

Henry Martyn Hoyt, son of Hon. Henry Martyn Hoyt,
LL.D. (B.A. Williams 1849), and Mary Elizabeth (Love-
land) Hoyt, was born December 5, 1856, at Wilkes-Barre,
Pa. His father was brevetted Brigadier-General for his
services in the Civil War, was Governor of Pennsylvania
from 1879 to 1883, and a trustee of Williams College from
1889 till his death in 1893.

He was prepared for college in the public schools of
Wilkes-Barre and under a private tutor. In college he
was a member of the Junior Promenade Committee and
of the University Glee Club in Senior year.

After graduation he studied law in the office of MacVeagh
& Bispham in Philadelphia, and at the University of Penn-
sylvania, from which he received the degree of Bachelor
of Laws in 1881. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania
bar the same year, and practiced in Pittsburg until 1883,
in the office of Hon. George Shiras, Jr. (B.A. Yale 1853),
afterward Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States. Then for three years he was assistant cashier of
the United States National Bank of New York. In March,
1886, he became treasurer of the Investment Co. of Phila-
delphia, and in 1890 its president.

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In June, 1894, he resigned from his financial activities
to resume his law practice in Philadelphia. This he con-
tinued until called to public service in June, 1897, when
he was appointed by President McKinley Assistant Attorney-
General, of the United States, succeeding his Classmate
Whitney. He had filled this office nearly six years, when on
February 23, 1903, he was appointed by President Roose-
velt Solicitor-General of the United States. When Hon.
Philander C. Knox, LL.D., under whom Mr. Hoyt had
served in the Department of Justice, became Secretary of
State in 1909, the office of Counselor of the State Depart-
ment was created and Mr. Hoyt was invited by his class-
mate, President Taft, to occupy this new position. He
entered upon his duties August 17, 1909, and served until
his death.

President Taft has said of him : "A man of great ability,
of wide reading, he represented in the highest sense the
literary culture of Yale. He would not accept judicial
office, although it fell to my fortune to press it on him.
He preferred in a less conspicuous station to render a
service for which he was peculiarly fitted. He preferred
as an agent of the State Department to assist in the mak-
ing of treaties and the bringing about of diplomatic agree-
ments, and to him as much as to anyone is due the success
of the Canadian reciprocity agreement, for he went to
Canada, he had long conferences with the gentlemen repre-
senting Canada, and he laid the broad foundations upon
which that agreement has been subsequently reached."

In 1893 he contributed to the Yale Law Journal an article
on "Recent Development and Tendency of the Law of
Prize," and had made a few public addresses, including
one on "The Navy in the War of 1812" at Arlington,
Va., on Memorial Day, 1899, and on "Colonial Coercions
and Civilization," at the Protestant Episcopal Congress in
Albany, N. Y., in 1902.

While in Ottawa to confer with Canadian officials, Mr.
Hoyt was taken seriously ill and though able to reach his

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home in Washington, D. C, died of peritonitis a few days
later, November 20, 1910, in his 54th year. A memorial
service was held in St. John's Episcopal Church in Wash-
ington. The interment was in Wilkes-Barre.

He married, January 31, 1883, Anne, daughter of Morton
and Ellen (Thomas) McMichael, of Philadelphia, Pa., and
had two sons and three daughters, who with Mrs. Hoyt
survive him. His elder son graduated from the Academ-
ical Department in 1907.

A suite of rooms in the new Wright Dormitory has been
given in Mr. Hoyt's memory by his classmates.

Laurence Henry Schwab, son of Gustav and Elizabeth
Catherine (von Post) Schwab, was born at Bloomingdale,
New York City, April 2, 1857.

He was prepared for college at a gymnasium in Stuttgart,
Germany, and in a private school in New York.

After graduation from college he studied at Union Theo-
logical Seminary a year, and at the Divinity School of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. He was
ordained Deacon in 188 1 and Priest in 1882, by Bishop
Horatio Potter. He was assistant at St. Michael's Church,
New York, in 1881-82 ; Rector of a church at Grand Island,
Nebr., 1882-83; and assistant at All Saints' Church, Wor-
cester, Mass., 1883-84. For two years and a half he was
Rector of the Church of the Nativity, in the East Side tene-
ment district of New York, and from 1886 to 1888 in charge
of St. Mark's Memorial Chapel in New York. From 1888
to 1899 he was Rector of St. Mary's Church, Manhattanville,
and for four years of the Church of the Intercession, in
New York City. Resigning on account of ill health in
1903, he spent several months in Colorado, and then took
charge of the Episcopal Church at New Windsor-on-the-
Hudson. Two years later he became Rector of Christ
Church, Sharon, Conn., where he continued until 1909.

Mr. Schwab was the first appointed of the Canons of
the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City,

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and preached his last sermon there on the morning of Ascen-
sion Day, May 25, 191 1. He died suddenly of consumption
at Sharon, Conn., the following Sunday evening, May 28.
He was 54 years of age.

In 1897 he delivered the John Bohlen Lectures in Phil-
adelphia on "The Kingdom of God," which were published.
He also published "The Papacy in the Nineteenth Cen-
tury," 1910, a translation from and adaptation of Nippold's
"History of Catholicism" and "The Ritschlian Theology,"
in the American Journal of Theology, 1901. The latter
year the Peace Society published his pamphlet, "War from
the Christian Point of View." For several months past he
had been engaged in preparing a biography of Bishop
Henry C. Potter (LL.D. Yale 1901).

Mr. Schwab married in New York City, February 21,
1889, Margaret, daughter of Irving and Nancy (Ulshoef-
fer) Paris. She survives him with their son, a member of
the Sophomore class in Yale College. His brother John
C. Schwab (B.A. Yale 1886) is Librarian of the University,
but his brother Benjamin W. Schwab, a member of the class
of 1888, is deceased. A sister is the wife of Henry C.
White (B.A. Yale 1881).

Edward Baldwin Whitney, son of Professor William
Dwight Whitney (B.A. Williams 1845; hon. M.A. Yale
1867), was born August 16, 1857, in New Haven, Conn. His
mother was Elizabeth Wooster (Baldwin) Whitney, daugh-
ter of Governor Roger Sherman Baldwin (B.A. Yale 181 1)
and Emily (Perkins) Baldwin, and sister of Governor
Simeon E. Baldwin (B.A. Yale 1861). He was fitted for
college at the Hopkins Grammar School, "The Gunnery,"
at Washington, Conn., and the preparatory department of
Beloit College, where his uncle, Henry Mitchell Whitney
(B.A. Yale 1864), was Professor.

After graduation he studied a year each in the Yale and
Columbia Law Schools, in the spring of 1880 was admitted
to the bar, and began practice in New York City. In

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1881-82 he was in charge of the legal, political, and com-
mercial definitions of the Century Dictionary, of which his
father was editor in chief. After three years as managing
clerk for Bristow, Burnett, Peet & Opdyke, in 1883 he
formed a partnership with General Henry L. Burnett, who
was later United States District Attorney of the Southern
District of New York. He was appointed in 1893 Assistant
Attorney-General of the United States by President Cleve-
land and served four years. During that time he argued
many constitutional and international law cases before the
United States Supreme Court, including the Income Tax
case. In Nashville, in 1899, he obtained the first judicial
decision condemning a manufacturing trust under the Fed-
eral Anti-trust law, his classmate President (then Judge)
Taft writing the decision.

Returning to practice in New York, he formed with
Henry W. Goodrich (B.A. Amherst 1880) and Winston H.
Hagen (B.A. Amherst 1879) the firm of Goodrich, Whitney
& Hagen, which later became Whitney & Hagen. He was
counsel for the New York State Tenement House Commis-
sion and drafted the Tenement House Law of 1901, and was
counsel for the citizens' organizations which secured the
free transfer right on street railroads and successfully
opposed the gas and street railroad franchise bills of
1903-04. He also drafted and assisted in securing the
passage by the Legislature at Albany of amendments to
the Code of Civil Procedure to cure the law's delay. In
1906 he became associated with Wallace Macfarlane (B.A.
Harv. 1879) and Robert Grier Monroe (B.A. Princeton
1881) under the firm name of Macfarlane, Whitney &
Monroe.

He was a democrat in politics but independent in attitude,
and frequently affiliated with fusion movements. He was
one of the organizers and first secretary of the National
Association of Democratic Clubs in 1888, also of the "Anti-
Snapper" Democratic organization in New York State in
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for the Supreme Court of New York, but appreciating his
character and fitness Governor Hughes appointed him a
Justice of the Supreme Court in November, 1909, for an
unexpired term, and before this term of office was over he
was appointed to the same court by Governor White to
fill another unexpired term, his commission dating from
December 24, 1910.

Judge Whitney contributed a number of articles to
reviews and law journals on constitutional subjects, and in
1902 read a paper on "Parasite Corporations" before the
American Social Science Association, in 1905 another paper
before the same association on "Governmental Interference
with Industrial Combinations," before the Harvard Semi-
nary of Economics on the "Northern Securities Co." in 1904,
at the St. Louis Congress of Arts and Sciences on "Stare
Decisis," and papers on other occasions. He had been
Lecturer on International Law in the New York Law
School since 1900.

He died at his country home in Cornwall, Conn., January
5, 191 1, from double pneumonia, in the 54th year of his age.

He married in Washington, D. C, April 11, 1896, Josepha,
daughter of Professor Simon Newcomb, the distinguished
astronomer, and Mary Caroline (Hassler) Newcomb, and
had four sons and three daughters. One daughter died in
infancy. The other children with Mrs. Whitney survive
him.

In his memory, Judge Whitney's classmates have provided
for a suite of rooms in the new Wright Dormitory. Two
brothers of his father, James Lyman Whitney (B.A. Yale
1856) and Henry Mitchell Whitney (B.A. Yale 1864), have
died during the academic year.

1879

Lloyd Wheaton Bowers, son of Lieutenant-Colonel
Samuel D wight Bowers and Martha Wheaton (Dowd)
Bowers, was born March 9, 1859, in Springfield, Mass.

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His father was at the time a jeweler in Springfield, of the
firm of Bailey & Bowers, but removed in 1865 to Brooklyn,
N. Y., and four years later to Elizabeth, N. J. There at the
age of ten the son's education was undertaken by John
Young (B.A. N. Y. Univ. 1850), for many years superin-
tendent of schools in the place, under whose care he finished
his preparation for college.

Throughout his college course he was the first scholar
of the class, maintaining an absolute rank only once sur-
passed in Yale annals until 1886, and at graduation was
Valedictorian.

After graduation he remained in New Haven as Soldiers'
Memorial Fellow, studying in the Graduate School, but
having decided to make the law his profession resigned his
fellowship at the end of a year. After spending four
months in European travel he entered the Columbia Law
School in New York, from which he received the degree
of Bachelor of Laws in May, 1882. At the same time he
was admitted to the bar of the state, and was one of three
competitors at the examination who received special com-
mendation. He at once went into the office of Chamberlain,
Carter & Hornblower in New York City, became their
managing clerk in May, 1883, and a partner in the firm in
January, 1884. In May of that year ill health forced him
to rest for a few months, during which he visited his cousin
and classmate, Edward A. Bowers, in Dakota and traveled
with him through the Northwest. He returned East in
September, but the next month left New York to make
his home in Winona, Minn., where he became the partner
of Hon. Thomas Wilson, LL.D. (Allegheny Coll. 1852),
formerly Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Minne-
sota, and later a member of Congress. His new environ-
ment proved congenial, and he continued in a general law
business there until June, 1893, when he became general
counsel for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. in
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he accepted the offer of his friend, President Taft (B.A.
Yale 1878 of the office of Solicitor-General of the United
States, taking up his duties April 1, 1909. His appoint-
ment to this office had been the desire of President Cleve-
land in 1893, but as Mr. Bowers was only thirty-four at the
time the plan was laid aside.

His defense of the constitutionality of the corporation
tax in March, 1910, was regarded as one of the ablest argu-
ments made before the Supreme Court in years, and
attracted wide attention. In a tribute to his friend Presi-
dent Taft said of him : "His record in the Solicitor-General's
office is one that rarely if ever has been equaled. He was
one of the first half-dozen lawyers of the hightest ability
in this country. It was my purpose to have appointed him a
Justice of the Supreme Court if opportunity offered."

Mr. Bowers died at the Hotel Touraine in Boston, Mass.,
September 9, 1910, at the age of 51 years. While spending
his vacation at Gloucester, Mass., after a year of intense
application he contracted a violent cold which developed
into tonsilitis, and to secure expert medical advice he was
brought to Boston. An operation for an abscess in one of
the tonsils was found necessary, and he appeared to be
recovering, but died suddenly from cardiac thrombus.
The interment was at Westfield, Conn.

Mr. Bowers married at Winona, September 7, 1887,
Louise Benton Wilson, only daughter of Hon. Thomas
Wilson, then his law partner there, and had a son and a
daughter. His wife died in 1897, and in August, 1906, he
married Mrs. Charlotte Josephine (Lewis) Watson. Mrs.
Bowers, with his children by the first marriage, survives
him. His son graduated from the Academical Department
in 1910.

John William Curtiss, son of Eli and Alma Southmayd
(DeForest) Curtiss, was born December 31, 1856, in Water-
town, Conn. He was prepared for college at the Hopkins

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Grammar School in New Haven. While in college his
musical and dramatic abilities made him one of the best
known of the undergraduates.

After graduation he became a member of the firm of
Maltby, Curtiss & Co., hardware manufacturers, but after
five years the firm was dissolved. He also had other busi-
ness interests, but withdrew from active participation in
business about 1890. For many years he lived in New York,
was a member of the University Club, where he spent
much of his time, and was the life of any company of which
he was a member.

His health had been poor for years, but he died suddenly
of apoplexy at the Hotel Longacre in New York City,
February 10, 191 1, at the age of 54 years.

He married September 28, 1881, Isabelle, daughter of
Rev. Chauncey and Martha (Blackman) Murray, and a
niece of Rev. William H. H. Murray (B.A. Yale 1862),
but was divorced from her in 1897. They had two
daughters, who are living, one of whom married Charles
B. Buckingham (B.A. Yale 1901). A brother and two
sisters also survive him.

Adrian Suydam Polhemus, son of James Suydam Pol-
hemus, a New York merchant, and Harriet Byron (Martin)
Polhemus, was born in Astoria, N. Y., January 3, 1856.
His father's family was among the founders of New
Amsterdam, its original ancestor in the colony having come
from Holland as the first minister of the Reformed (Dutch)
Church in Flatbush.

He entered Yale after preparation at the College of St.
James in Hagerstown, Md., with -three years at Phillips
(Andover) Academy.

After graduation he took the course in Bellevue Hospital
Medical College (New York University), receiving his
degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1882. After eighteen
months of hospital service he was appointed in December,

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1883, Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army; five
years later Captain Assistant Surgeon; February, 1901,
Major Surgeon.

Most of his earlier service was in the far West or South,
with the exception of four years at Fort Monroe, and short
periods at West Point, Mount Vernon, and elsewhere.
He spent five or six years at San Francisco army posts and
in Nevada, three years at Fort Douglas, Utah, and was
then at Fort Wingate, N. M. He was six months in the
field in Arizona during the Geronimo campaign. In the
Spanish-American War, he was Major Brigadier Surgeon
and was on duty at Chickamauga, St. Augustine, Knoxville,
and other camps. Soon after the war he had three years
of arduous service in the Philippines, and was then on duty
at Fort Crook, Nebr.

As his health had become permanently impaired, chiefly
because of overwork and acute attacks of illness during the
war and while living in the tropics, he was retired from
active duty in December, 1904.

Major Polhemus had since made his home at Catonsville,
near Baltimore, Md., but died suddenly while on a visit to
a brother in Portland, Ore., October 27, 1910, at the age
of 54 years.

He married at the Presidio Army Post, San Francisco,
April 28, 1886, Frances Ainsworth, daughter of Colonel
George H. Weeks, a West Point officer subsequently Quar-
termaster-General of the Army, and had two sons. One
son is a cadet at West Point and the other a Sophomore in
Columbia University.

Louis Lee Stanton was the younger son of Edmund
Denison Stanton (B.A. Yale 1848), a member of the New
York Stock Exchange, who died in 1873, and Louise (Bab-
cock) Stanton. He was born at Stonington, Conn., July
31, 1859, but spent most of his life in New York City, where
he was fitted for college under a private tutor. He grad-

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uated among the first ten of his class, with a High Oration
stand.

After graduation he entered upon a business life, at
first for a few months with a coal firm, then with Crocker
Brothers, iron brokers in New York City. He afterward
held various responsible financial positions, among them
that of second vice-president of the Standard Trust Co.,
vice-president and director of the Standard Safe Deposit Co.,
treasurer and director of the American Malting Co., and
director of the Electric Bond & Share Co., of the Erie Rail-
way Co., and the Staten Island Rapid Transit Co. He also
retained an interest with the firm of Crocker Brothers, but
on account of failing health withdrew from business in Jan-
uary, 1910.

He was a member and treasurer of the First Presbyterian
Church, and one of the managers of the Demilt Dispensary.

Mr. Stanton died of Bright's disease at his home in New
York City, May 11, 191 1, in his 52d year.

He married, November 3, 1887, Pauline Williams, daugh-
ter of Courtlandt Palmer and Hannah Elizabeth (Williams)
Dixon, who survives him with two sons and one daughter,
the wife of J. Howland Auchincloss (B.A. Yale 1908).
One son died in infancy. Mrs. Stanton is a sister of Wil-
liam P. and Ephraim W. Dixon (B.A. Yale 1868 and 1881,
respectively), and a sister-in-law of Henry Burr Barnes
(B.A.Yale 1866).

1880

William Gibbons Daggett, son of David Lewis Dag-
gett, M.D. (B.A. Yale 1839), and Margaret Donaldson
(Gibbons) Daggett, was born January 8, i860, in New
Haven, Conn. His grandfather was Leonard Augustus
Daggett (B.A. Yale 1807), and his great-grandfather was
Hon. David Daggett (B.A. Yale 1783), United States Sena-
tor, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, and
the first Professor of Law on the Kent foundation in the

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Yale Law School. Through the wife of Hon. David Dag-
gett he was descended from Eneas Munson (B.A. Yale
1753), a prominent New Haven physician, and Professor of
Materia Medica and Botany in the Medical School from 181 3
till his death in 1826. His mother was the daughter of Dr.
William Gibbons, of Wilmington, Del. He was fitted for
college at the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven.

The year after graduation he had charge of the Old
Lyme (Conn.) Academy, then studied medicine at Yale a
year, and finished his course at the University of Pennsyl-
vania, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine there in
1884. After a year in Blockley Hospital, Philadelphia, he
returned to New Haven, where he had since been in active
practice. While serving in Blockley Hospital, he volun-
teered with others his aid in a severe typhoid fever epidemic
among the miners of Plymouth, Pa., and afterwards took
special interest in the means of prevention of this disease,
publishing several articles on the subject.

From May, 1886, to June, 1888, he was Lecturer in Bac-
teriology in the Yale Medical School, and from 1905 till
his decease, Clinical Lecturer on Medicine.

Since 1887 he had been connected with the New Haven
Hospital as an attending physician, from 1896 to 1907 was
a member of its prudential committee, and since 1906 had
been secretary of its board of directors. He was a mem-
ber of the New Haven Medical Association and the Con-
necticut Medical Society, of both of which his father had
been president. He was also a member of the American
Medical Association.

Upon the death of Alfred Edwards Hooker in 1887 he
was chosen Class Secretary and for twenty-three years had
efficiently and affectionately fulfilled the duties of the office.
"A History of the Class from 1876 to 1910," edited by
him, was issued a short time before his illness.

Dr. Daggett died after a second operation for appendicitis
at the New Haven Hospital, September 18, 1910, at the age

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of 50 years. His classmate, Bishop Partridge, conducted
the funeral service.

He married, August 15, 1894, Edith, daughter of Alfred
Andrew and Emilie (Gibbons) Cohen, of Alameda, Cal.,
and had a son and daughter, who with Mrs. Daggett sur-
vive him. Two brothers, David and Leonard M., graduates
of the Academical Department in 1879 and 1884, respec-
tively, also survive him.

1882

Alfred Beard Kittredge, son of Russell Kittredge, a
farmer, and Frances (Holmes) Kittredge, was born March
28, 1861, at Nelson, N. H. In 1877 he moved to East
Jaffrey, N. H., and from there entered college.

After graduation he studied law a year in an office in
Keene, N. H., and then took the Senior work in the Yale
Law School, receiving his law degree in 1885. Soon after
he removed to Sioux City, S. D., where he was for a num-
ber of years the Republican leader of his state and a
member of the Republican National Committee. He was
State Senator for two terms beginning in 1889, and United
States Senator from 1901 to 1909. His thorough grasp of
legal principles was shown in a case which he argued before
the United States Supreme Court just before he entered
the Senate at Washington.

Mr. Kittredge died after a month's illness from liver and
kidney trouble at Hot Springs, Ark., May 4, 191 1, at the
age of 50 years. He was unmarried.

Charles Henry Lewis, son of William Beecher and
Catherine E. (Spencer) Lewis, was born April 8, 1857, at
Naugatuck, Conn. He was fitted for college at the High
School in that borough, the South Berkshire Institute, and
Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. In college he was
a member of the Yale Glee Club, and at graduation was one
of the class day committee.

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After graduation he took the course in Bellevue Hospital
Medical College, receiving his medical degree from New
York University in 1884, and then served on the staff of
St. Vincent's Hospital for eighteen months, the last six
months as house physician and surgeon. He then spent a
year abroad in study and travel, on his return did special
work in the Carnegie Laboratory, and after about a year
began practice. For five years he was assistant physician
in the out-patient department of Roosevelt Hospital, but
resigned to organize a dispensary at St. Vincent's Hospital.
Subsequently he was assistant attending physician at St.
Vincent's Hospital, and during the last ten years attending
physician. He was a member of the medical board for
several years, and recently president. In 1892 he was one
of the organizers of the Columbus Hospital, an attending
physician, and vice-president of its medical board.

He was a member of several professional organizations,
and was for a time chairman of the medical section of the
New York Academy.

Dr. Lewis suffered a stroke of apoplexy in his office and
died at St. Vincent's Hospital, New York City, March 31,
191 1. He was nearly 54 years of age, and unmarried.

Frank Edward Page, son of Albert G. and Maria L.
(Drummond) Page, and brother of William Drummond
Page (B.A. Yale 1875), was born February 20, i860, at
Bath, Me., and was fitted for college in the High School
there.

After graduation he studied law with Cornelius Van
Schaack and others in Chicago, 111., until admitted to the bar
in 1884, and since then had been continuously in general
practice. Since 1908 he had also devoted considerable time
to real estate investment in and near Chicago for a life
insurance company.

He had been treasurer of the Warren Avenue Congrega-
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interval, and interested and helpful in all departments of
its work.

Mr. Page died of pneumonia at his home in Chicago, May
25, 1909, at the age of 49 years.

He married in Chicago, July 2, 1895, Gertrude M.,
daughter of Bernard and Antoinette Swenson, who survives
him. They had no children.

1884

John Osborn McCalmont, son of Samuel Plumer
McCalmont, a lawyer, and Harriet (Osborn) McCalmont,
was born January 28, 1864, in Franklin, Pa., and was fitted
for college in the High School there.

After graduation from college he returned to Franklin
and was for two years principal of the High School, at
the same time studying law. He was admitted to the bar
in 1887, practiced for some time with his father and B. H.
Osborn, and later in Oil City, Pa.

In June, 1889, he married Virginia, daughter of Hon.
Robert Simpson of Wheeling, W. Va. After a long decline,
during which Mr. McCalmont gave up his business to devote
himself to her, she died in El Paso, Tex., in 1892. He after-
ward resumed his practice and enjoyed the absolute confi-
dence of those whose interests he had in charge. He was
singularly unselfish and generous in nature.

Mr. McCalmont died, after being seriously ill only two
weeks at his home in Franklin, Pa., November 3, 1910.
He was 46 years of age. His mother, two sisters and three
brothers survive him. One brother was his classmate in
college, and another graduated from the Sheffield Scientific
School in 1897.

Henry Woodruff Prouty, son of Edward V. Prouty,
was born December 23, 1858, at Concord, O. He entered
Yale after a year in Oberlin College, his home then being
in Painesville, O.

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After graduating from college he took the course in the
Albany Law School, receiving the degree of Bachelor of
Laws in May, 1885. The following year he spent in a law
office in Chicago, and since his admission to the bar in 1887
had been in practice in that city, except for a time previous
to 1892, when he was in practice in Seattle, Wash.

In the spring of 1910 an operation was performed upon
his throat at Heidelberg, Germany, after which he resumed
law practice in Chicago with Aaron C. Harford. Later the
old trouble reappeared and he died quite suddenly at the
Henrotin Memorial Hospital in Chicago, January 23, 191 1.
He was 52 years of age.

1885

Charles Samuel Wiley, son of Eli and Martha San-
born (Whittemore) Wiley, was born May 24, 1862, in
Charleston, 111.

After graduation he was manager of a butter and cheese
factory in Charleston a year and a half, and then taught
in J. M. Cross's preparatory school two years. He began
to read law by himself, but later joined the Senior class
in the law department of Washington University, St. Louis,
and graduated in 1890. At first he practiced his profession
in his native city alone, then in the firm of Neal & Wiley,
but in July, 1902, removed to Seattle, Wash. After prac-
ticing by himself for a time he became the head of the
firm of Wiley, Herr & Bayley. He was interested in large
business enterprises, in 1906 associating himself with Wil-
liam H. Lewis in the contracting firm of Lewis & Wiley,
whose application of hydraulic mining methods to the
regrading of Seattle and Portland, Ore., attracted wide
attention. He was president of the Lewis Construction
Company, of the Beacon Place Company, of the Title Trust
Company, and of the Farmers' Mutual Independent Tele-
phone Company of Everett, vice-president of the Com-
mercial State Bank, and one of the most active and

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progressive members of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce
and of the Seattle Commercial Club.

He attended the twenty-fifth reunion of his class in New-
Haven in June, 1910, and soon after his return to Seattle
with Mrs. Wiley joined a yachting party for a week's
cruise in the waters of British Columbia. While making
a side trip up a swift tidal stream entering Jervis Inlet the
rowboat in which were Mr. and Mrs. Wiley was upset and
both were drowned, July 11. Mr. Wiley was 48 years of
age. He was a member of Plymouth Congregational
Church.

He married, October 8, 1896, Lida Blackburn Lawrence,
daughter of Grove Pettibone Lawrence (B.A. Yale 1856)
and Ella G. (Blackburn) Lawrence, of Pana, 111. A
daughter and two sons survive their parents. Mr. Wiley's
brother (B.A. Yale 1895) died in 1908.

1886

Frederick Wightman Moore, son of Ezra and Juliette
(Beckwith) Moore, was born at East Lyme, Conn., October
18, 1863. He was fitted for college at the Bulkeley High
School, New London.

After graduation he was for a year and a half a reporter
and night editor of the New Haven Palladium and at the
same time a student of history in the Graduate School.
He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1890,
and then spent three semesters in the University of Berlin
and some time in Paris. In 1891 he was appointed Lecturer
on Sociology in the University of Pennsylvania and the
following year Adjunct Professor of History and Economics
in Vanderbilt University. In 1901 he was advanced to a
full Professorship of the same subjects, but since 1908 his
chair had been limited to history. In 1904 he was also
made Dean of the Academic Department. He was one
of the founders of the Vanderbilt University Quarterly in
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April, 1908. From the opening of the summer school of
the University of Tennessee he was a member of the faculty
of that school.

For several years Professor Moore was a commissioner
on historical manuscripts for the American Historical Asso-
ciation, and in 1901 presented a special report on the letters
and historical papers of Andrew Jackson. As a member
of the Tennessee Historical Society he was active in secur-
ing the establishment of a state department of archives and
history, and in 1904 made the first report of the conference
of State and Local Historical Societies to the American
Historical Association. He was also a member of the
Southern History Society, Southern Educational Associa-
tion, and American Economic Association, and frequently
contributed to their publications. In 1899 his translation of
"The Outlines of Sociology," by Professor Ludwig Gum-
plowicz of the University of Gratz, in Austria, was published
by the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

In 1908 he was chosen secretary and treasurer of the
Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the
Southern States, and was one of the original members of
its uniform entrance examination committee, which has
rendered important service to education in reforming and
standardizing the work of preparatory schools. As the"
result of exhaustive research Professor Moore published
in the summer of 1910 "The Administration of the Certifi-
cating System of Admission into College."

Professor Moore was chosen deacon of the Immanuel
Baptist Church of Nashville about 1895, and was for several
years superintendent of the Sunday school, Bible class
leader, clerk of the church, and a member of its finance
committee. He was also a leader in the religious and
educational work of his denomination in the state, and was
one of the founders and trustees of Tennessee College at
Murfreesboro. He was a trustee of the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky., and in 1905

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delivered the Gay Lectures on "The Religious Aspects of
Social Science."

Soon after his return to the university in the fall of 1910
he became ill, and it was found that the left lung was affected.
Early in November he went to Denver, Colo., and apparently
greatly improved for several months, but dangerous symp-
toms appeared and a week later, April 23, 191 1, he died.
He was 47 years of age, and was unmarried. His brother,
Edward Steward Moore (Ph.B. Yale 1888), survives him.

1888

William Loving, son of William and Susan Elizabeth
(Wharton) Loving, was born August 12, 1867, in St.
Joseph,. Mo., and was prepared for college there in the High
School.

After graduation he returned to St. Joseph and entered
the employ of the C. D. Smith Drug Co., of which he was
appointed buyer and later superintendent. He afterward
removed to Boston and became superintendent of the
Eastern Drug Co., and so continued until his death, June
21, 1910. During the last two years his health had been
failing, but his death was sudden. He was in his 43d year,
and was unmarried. A sister (B.A. Vassar 1885) had
made her home with him the last year in Boston. A brother,
who was for a year a member of the College class of 1896,
also survives him in St. Joseph.

1889

Horace Bennet Bartholomew, son of Benjamin and
Sallie (Schollenberger) Bartholomew, was born March 19,
1866, in Philadelphia. After his father's death he lived in
Pottsville, Pa., being fitted for college in the High School
there.

After graduation he studied law in the office of J. W.
Ryon, and since his admission to the bar, September, 1891,

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had quietly carried on a general practice in Pottsville.
He was also vice-president of the Pennsylvania National
Bank.

Mr. Bartholomew died at Minersville, Pa., October 24,
1910, after a week's illness from acute indigestion. He was
44 years of age. He was shortly to have married Susan,
daughter of Judge C. N. Brumm. His mother and a
sister survive him.

Arthur Edmands Jenks, son of Colonel C. Jenks, was
born January 4, 1864, in Boston, Mass. He was prepared
for college by a private tutor and at the High School in
Brockton, Mass., which was his home during his college
course.

Before entering college he was for several years a reporter
on the Boston Journal, and during Sophomore year was
elected an editor of the Yale Record, and chairman of the
Record board in Senior year.

After graduation he was for a year or two in the real
estate business at Asheville, N. C, but in 1891 went to New
York City to be secretary of a land and mining company.

During his residence in the South he was connected
with several manufacturing and industrial enterprises, con-
structed the electric fountain at the Atlanta Exposition, and
in 1895 w^n two associates he built the Hendersonville &
Brevard Railroad, twenty-two miles long, in North Carolina
(now part of the Southern Railway system).

From 1896 to 1898 he was an assistant in the general
management of the drug business of Richard Hudnut, and
soon afterward became part owner of the Hanson-Jenks
Co., dealers in toilet preparations.

Mr. Jenks died of apoplexy at his home in New York
City, April 24, 191 1, at the age of 47 years.

He married in New York City, October 19, 1904, Kath-
arine Marcelita Bennett, of Haverstraw, N. Y., who sur-
vives him.

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101

George Lyman Lamphier, son of Benjamin F. and
Jerusha (Howe) Lamphier, was born July 4, 1864, at
Goshen, Conn. He was fitted for college at Phillips Acad-
emy, Andover, Mass.

The year after graduation he was Professor of Mathe-
matics at Wynnton College, in Columbus, Ga., and was then
superintendent of schools and superintendent of the High
School at West Winsted, Conn., until September, 1894,
when he took a similar position at South Hadley, Mass.
February 1, 1895, he became superintendent of the schools
of the towns of Ashby, Townsend, and Pepperell, Mass.,
resigning this position, July I, 1896, for the superintendency
of the schools of Chester, Becket, Middlefield, and Wash-
ington, Mass. He continued in this work until his health
failed. Since then he had resided in Goshen.

After special study in chemistry he received the degree
of Master of Arts from Yale in 1894.

Mr. Lamphier died of brain trouble, caused by overwork,
at Goshen, March 19, 1909, in the 45th year of his age. He
was a member of the Congregational Church of Goshen.

He married, in Goshen, June 27, 1889, Charlotte Louise,
daughter of William and Sarah (Thrall) Davis. They
separated, after which he married Delia I. Hotchkiss of
Cornwall, Conn., who survives him with a son by the second
marriage.

John Underhill. See page 116.

1891

Frank Sanford Blair, son of Mitchel Sanford and Har-
riet (Dennison) Blair, was born October 20, 1867, in
Angelica, N. Y., and was the first graduate of Wilson
Academy, of which he subsequently became a trustee.

After graduation he studied law a year at home, then
a year in New York City, after which he was admitted to
the bar in Rochester, N. Y., and became managing clerk for

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Henry G. Danforth in that city. In 1899 he returned to
Angelica, where he was an attorney and counselor, secre-
tary to the receiver and real estate and tax agent of the
Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad, and editor of
the Allegany County Advocate. For three years he was
a member of the Angelica Board of Trustees, and was a
member of the Board of Education at the time of his
death. In the summer of 1910 he was a representative at
the railway conference at Berne, Switzerland.

Mr. Blair died of acute indigestion at the home of Dr.
Frank W. Warner in Angelica, August 22, 1910, in the
43d year of his age.

He married June 21, 1898, Lemira M., daughter of
Norman F. and Frances (Kedzie) Haskell of Rochester,
N. Y.

Francis deLacey Hyde, son of Charles and Eliza-
beth (Kepler) Hyde, was born September 22, 1869, in
Plainfield, N. J., where he was prepared for college at the
John Leal School.

After graduation from college he entered the Second
National Bank of Titusville, Pa., and became vice-president
in 1892, his brother Louis being president. In 1905 he
sold his interest and resigned as an officer and director.
He was also vice-president of the New Orleans & North-
western Railway Co., which was owned by members of his
family, but was sold to the Missouri Pacific System in
1901. In July of that year the Union County (N. J.)
Investment Co. was incorporated, in which were invested
part of the funds of the estate of his father, Charles Hyde,
and of this he had been manager, acting also as president.

During 1908 he had spent six months in Mexico on
account of ill health, but did not regain his vigor, although
he resumed active business on his return. While despond-
ent from illness, as is supposed, he died from a self-
inflicted bullet wound at his home in North Plainfield,
N. J., September 8, 1910. He was nearly 41 years of age.

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He married, June 5, 1894, Carolyn, daughter of Frederick
Knowland, of Plainfield, who survives him with two
sons and a daughter. Two brothers graduated from the
Academical Department in 1886 and 1887, respectively.

1892

Knight Dexter Cheney, eldest son and fifth of the
eleven children of Knight Dexter Cheney (Brown Univ.
i860), president of Cheney Brothers, silk manufacturers,
from 1894 to 1907, was born in South Manchester, Conn.,
June 1, 1870. His mother was Ednah Dow (Smith)
Cheney. He was fitted for college at the Hartford (Conn.)
High School.

After graduation he went abroad with a number of
classmates and since his return had been connected with
the New York sales office of Cheney Brothers, becoming
manager in 1909. After the death of his father in 1907
he was elected a director of Cheney Brothers, and since
then had taken a leading part in the affairs of the company.

Mr. Cheney died at the home of his mother in South
Manchester, August 17, 19 10, from a complication of dis-
eases following pneumonia. He was 40 years of age.

He married, October 13, 1896, Ruth, daughter of Dr.
Edward Wilberforce Lambert (B.A. Yale 1854) of New
York City, and sister of Alexander Lambert (B.A. Yale
1884), who married Mr. Cheney's sister. Mrs. Cheney
survives him, but their only child, bearing his father's
name, died at the age of two years.

Mr. Cheney's four brothers graduated from the Aca-
demical Department, one in 1898, two in 1901, and one in
1904. His classmate, Howell Cheney, is a cousin.

1894

Edward Herman Lay, only child of Roswell Enoch and
Emily Ann (White) Lay, was born November 23, 1866, in

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Morrison, 111. He came to Yale from the University of
Illinois.

He excelled in mathematics, and in Junior and Senior
years he won a prize and a two-year honor in that subject.

After graduation he spent his life in teaching, with the
exception of the year 1894-95, when he was in the insurance
business in Providence, R. I. In 1895-96 he was instructor
in mathematics at West Jersey Academy, Bridgeton, N. J.,
the next year in the New York Military Academy at Corn-
wall-on-the-Hudson, then in the Bulkeley High School, New
London, Conn., and in 1899-1900 he was principal of
Buchanan College, at Troy, Mo. Since October, 1900, he
had taught mathematics in Lewis Institute, Chicago, and had
continued his graduate work in the University of Chicago,
to which he had devoted his whole time in 1898-99 and
1904-05.

Mr. Lay died December 16, 1910, in the Garfield Park
Hospital in Chicago, to which he was taken for treatment
at Thanksgiving. He was 44 years of age. He was a
member of the Church of the Disciples.

He married in Chicago, August 17, 1899, Helen Elvira,
daughter of Harvey Pierce and Mary Lavinia (Brainerd)
Brainerd, of Enfield, Conn. She survives him. They had
no children.

Albert Thorpe Ryan, son of Albert Gallatin Ryan, for-
merly mayor of Little Rock, Ark., and later in the Depart-
ment of the Interior in Washington, D. C, was born in the
latter city, January 5, 1873. His mother was Frances
Isabella (Thorpe) Ryan.

From graduation until November, 1894, he was field
assistant on the United States Geological Survey in Idaho,
and during the following six months clerk in the office of
Shellabarger & Wilson in Washington, being at the same
time a student in the Columbian (now George Washington)

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University Law School, from which he received the degree
of Bachelor of Laws in 1895. From April, 1895, to
January, 1896, he was private secretary to Senator Dubois
(B.A. Yale 1872) of Idaho. In January, 1896, he was
admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia, and in May
of that year opened an office with John B. Henderson, Jr.,
for general practice. From January, 1896, to June, 1897,
he also served as clerk to the United States Senate com-
mittee on Public Lands. In June, 1897, he removed to
Blackfoot, Idaho, where he practiced law and managed a
dairy and cattle business and other interests of a ranch.
In July, 1898, he was a delegate to the Democratic State
Convention, and the next month was chairman of the
Bingham County Convention. From September, 1900, to
May, 1903, he was in Omaha, Nebr., in the law firm of
O'Neill & Gilbert, but then returned to Blackfoot. In
December, 1908, he removed to Wallace, Idaho, forming a
law partnership with A. G. Kerns, in the firm of Kerns &
Ryan.

Mr. Ryan died at his home in Wallace, September 13,
1910, at the age of 37 years. He had greatly overexerted
himself in fighting the forest fires which were then devas-
tating that section of the country, and this led to blood
poisoning, of which he died after two days' illness. His
body was cremated in Portland, Ore.

He married at Washington, D. C, April 29, 1898, Dora
Elsie, daughter of Joseph M. Dufour, who survives him
with a daughter.

1895
Franklin Lawrence Lee, son of Benjamin Franklin
Lee, LL.D. (Williams 1858), and Mary Ray (King) Lee,
was born September 8, 1874, in New York City. His
father was Professor of Real Estate and Equity Juris-
prudence in the Columbia Law School from 1883 to 1892,

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and subsequently Lecturer there, at Northwestern Univer-
sity, and the New York Law School. He was a nephew
of William H. L. Lee (B.A. Yale 1869), who was his
father's law partner. He finished his preparation for col-
lege at St. Mark's School, Southboro, Mass.

After graduation he took the course in the New York
Law School, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws
in 1898. May 18 of that year at the beginning of the
Spanish-American War, he enlisted in Troop A, New York
Volunteer Cavalry, and after two months in Camps Black
and Alger sailed for Ponce, Porto Rico, where his Troop
acted as escort to General Miles and he was on guard duty.
He sailed early in September on his return, and on reach-
ing New York was granted a furlough, and mustered out
of service November 28.

For a year he was in the office of Parson, Shepard &
Ogden, but since April, 1900, had been with Lee & Lee, the
firm of his father and uncle.

Mr. Lee died of pneumonia at his home in New York
City, May 18, 191 1, at the age of 36 years. He was not
married.

1896

Theodore Carleton, son of Isaac Newton Carleton,
Ph.D. (B.A. Dartm. 1859; hon. M.A. Yale 1872), was born
December 28, 1872, in New Britain, Conn., where his father
was then principal of the State Normal School. His mother
was Laura (Tenney) "Carleton.

He was prepared for college at Phillips Academy,
Andover, and at the Carleton School, Bradford, Mass.,
which had been established by his father before leaving
New Britain, and at which he taught the year after his
graduation from college.

In June, 1897, he went to New York City and entered
the service of the Western Electric Co. in the export sales
department, for which his knowledge of modern languages

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gave him exceptional qualifications. He left there in Octo-
ber, 1903, and entered Hartford Theological Seminary, but
soon found his health seriously impaired by his recent busi-
ness experiences. After a rest at Bradford he took up the
systematic study of illustration with the International Cor-
respondence Schools of Scranton, Pa., and did considerable
newspaper and commercial illustrating, but continued to
live at Bradford. He also taught Bible classes in the First
Congregational Church there.

While waiting in the Public Library in Haverhill, Mass.,
for a meeting of the Arts and Crafts Society, of which he
was secretary, Mr. Carleton died almost instantly of heart
failure, September 16, 1 910. He was in his 38th year. His
mother and two sisters survive him.

1897

Norman Alton Williams, only son of Norman Alton
Williams (C. E. Rensselaer Poly. Inst. 1859), a manu-
facturer, and one of the engineers of the High Bridge
Croton Aqueduct, N. Y., was born February 17, 1873,
in Utica, N. Y. His father died in 1879. His mother was
Julia Elizabeth (Millard) Williams.

He was prepared for college at the Utica Free Academy
and at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and was a mem-
ber of the class of 1896 until Junior year, when he left on
account of ill health. He joined the class of 1897 in Septem-
ber, 1895.

After graduation he spent a year of travel in Europe,
a year as clerk and general bookkeeper in the First National
Bank of Utica, and then studied iron analysis at Lafayette
College. He then entered the employ of the American Car
and Foundry Co., at first at their works in Berwick, Pa.,
and later as sales agent in New York City, being also
secretary and director of the Standard Plunger Elevator
Co. His health, however, failed and he was obliged to

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give up active business. He then returned to Utica and
took up the study of law.

Since 1907 he had lived with his sister at their old home-
stead at Clayville, near Utica, and he had taken much interest
in the restoration and development of the place. He died
there suddenly November 4, 19 10. He was 37 years of
age and unmarried. Besides his sister, his mother, Mrs.
William H. Watson, survives him. He was a member of
the First Presbyterian Church of Utica.

In his memory his mother and sister have provided for
a suite of rooms in the new Wright Dormitory.

1898

Luther Guiteau Billings, son of Luther Guiteau and
Laura Elizabeth (Tremaine) Billings, was born July 17,
1877, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He spent his early life at
Annapolis, Md., his father being a pay director in the
United States Navy, and now holding the rank of Rear
Admiral. He entered Yale after a year in St. John's Col-
lege, Annapolis. In Senior year he was a member of the
Class football team, and was president of the Yale Tennis
Association.

After graduation he was for two years a student in the
New York Law School, from which he received the degree
of Bachelor of Laws in 1900. He was for a year and a half
in the office of Perkins & Butler, six months with Lord,
Day & Lord, and a year with James L. Bishop. In 1904
he formed a partnership under the firm name of Ely, Bil-
lings & Chester, which in 1907 became Allen, Ely, Billings
& Chester, and in 1909 returned to the earlier name of Ely,
Billings & Chester, his partners being his classmates Mor-
ris U. Ely, Colby M. Chester, and Darius E. Peck. Still
later the firm was Billings & Peck.

Mr. Billings died in New York City, May 9, 191 1, from
a sudden attack of indigestion. He was in his 34th year.

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He was a member of the South Congregational Church in
Brooklyn, N. Y.

He married, September 8, 1909, Catherine Clemson,
daughter of George Humphreys North, of Pelham Manor,
N. Y., a retired stock broker. Mrs. Billings survives him.

George Alphonsus Mullen, son of Dennis and Annie
Elizabeth (Duggan) Mullen, was born August 25, 1874,
at Trumbull, Conn. He was prepared for college privately,
and at Easton (Conn.) Academy.

After graduation he took the course in the Yale Law
School, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1900,
and then practiced his profession in Bridgeport, Conn.,
where his death occurred August 15, 1910, in his 36th
year. He was a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

He married, December 23, 1903, at Bridgeport, Grace
Adaline, daughter of Loomis Alonzo Harris, a locomotive
engineer, and Harriet Viola (Show) Harris. She survives
him with twin sons.

1899

Howard Platt, son of Edmund Pendleton and Mary
(Bartlett) Piatt, was born January 21, 1877, in Poughkeep-
sie, N. Y., and was prepared for college at the Riverview
Military Academy in that city.

After graduation he spent the summer in travel abroad.
He then returned to Poughkeepsie and entered business
with his father, later going into the department store of Dey
Brothers in Syracuse, N. Y., for a short time, and since
October 18, 1899, had been a member of the dry goods
firm of Luckey, Piatt & Co. in Poughkeepsie.

He was connected with nearly every society in the city
for the public welfare. He was an active member of the
Young Men's Christian Association, having been chairman
of the Boys' work for ten years, and organized and carried

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on a Junior Civic League with a membership of over two
hundred boys. He was an elder of the First Presbyterian
Church and the leader of a young men's Bible class, also
at one time a director of the Young People's Missionary
Movement.

As president of the Chamber of Commerce for three years
he did a large service for the city. He had also been chair-
man of the City Civil Service Commission, and was the
treasurer of the Bureau of Associated Charities.

He died after a very short illness from pneumonia pre-
ceded by intercostal neuralgia, January 4, 191 1, in his 34th
year.

Mr. Piatt married, April 15, 1903, Alice Elvira Holden
(B.A. Vassar 1901), daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Mat-
thews) Holden of Worcester, Mass., who survives him
with a daughter and son. Three sisters (two graduates of
Vassar 1894 and 1906, respectively) are also living.

1901

Francis Gordon Brown, son of Francis Gordon Brown,
a graduate of the Columbia School of Mines in 1867, and of
Julia Noyes (Tracy) Brown, was born in New York City,
September 6, 1879. He was fitted for college at the Groton
(Mass.) School.

Throughout his college course he maintained the rank
of a philosophical oration stand, and in athletics he made
a most distinguished record. He was a member of the
University Football Team four years, famous as guard,
and in Senior year was captain. He was captain of the
Freshman Crew, and rowed in the University race against
Harvard in Sophomore year. He was also a member of
the Track Team in his Senior year. He won many social
honors, and was esteemed by all for his character as a man.

Since graduation he had been in the banking business
with the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., in New York City,

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where he had applied himself closely to the work, and had
shown an aptitude which promised eminence in the financial
world.

Mr. Brown died of diabetes at his home at Glen Head,
L. I., N. Y., May 10, 191 1, in the 32d year of his age.

He married, April 27, 1905, Caroline Lawrence Bogert,
daughter of Henry Lawrence and Carrie (Osgood) Bogert,
who survives him with a son. A brother, Charles Tracy
Brown, who was a member of the class of 1903 in the Col-
lege, died in 1900.

1903

Warren Merrill Steele, son of Rev. David Allen
Steele (Acadia Univ. 1865) and Sarah (Whitman) Steele,
was born November 20, 1874, in Amherst, Nova Scotia.

He was prepared for college at the Horton Collegiate
Academy, Wolfville, N. S., graduated from Acadia Uni-
versity with honors in 1902, and then entered the Senior
class at Yale.

The year after his graduation from Yale he spent in
the Graduate School, studying philosophy, and receiving
the degree of Master of Arts in 1904. He then at once
went to Furman University, Greenville, S. C, where he
greatly enjoyed his work as Professor of Philosophy and
Political Science, and also served as pastor of the Baptist
Church in that place. But owing to the failure of his
health, he withdrew from these positions in January, 1908,
and during the following years sought restoration in Colo-
rado, Washington, and again in Colorado, where he died
of pneumonia at Salida, August 19, 1910. He was 35
years of age. He was buried in Salida, Colo.

He married, August 30, 1904, Charlotte Beatrice, daughter
of Robert Charles Fuller, a pharmacist, and Sophie (Tup-
per) Fuller, of Amherst, N. S. She survives him with a
daughter.

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Raymond William Walker, son of Melvin Harvey
Walker, a retired shoe manufacturer of Westboro, Mass.,
was born in that town, March 22, 1878. His mother was
Ann Amelia, daughter of William and Pamela F. (Kidder)
Moses.

He was fitted for college by private tutors, and while
in college was a member of the editorial boards of the
Record and Courant. A number of poems written at that
time were regarded as of unusual originality and merit.

After graduation he was connected with the Bates Adver-
tising Company in New York City, becoming assistant to
the manager. From 1904 he was also a student of English
in absentia in the Yale Graduate School. In 1907 he took
the position of advertising manager for A. Sherman & Co.,
clothiers and outfitters of Boston, Mass., where he found
agreeable conditions and congenial work. During half
of the year he resided in Boston and during the warmer
months in Westboro.

Mr. Walker died at the Bay State Hospital, Roxbury,
Mass., February 12, 191 1, from tetanus following an opera-
tion for appendicitis. He was in his 33d year. He was
engaged to be married to Miss Rachel Metcalf of Westboro.

1906

Ben Overton Brown, son of John Sidney and Adele
(Overton) Brown, was born November 28, 1884, in Denver,
Colo. Pie was fitted for college at St. Paul's School, Con-
cord, N. H.

After graduation he was associated with his father in
the wholesale grocery business of the J. S. Brown & Brother
Mercantile Co., of which he was a director. In February,
1910, he went to California for the benefit of his health,
and then to Seattle, when he was taken with pachymenin-
gitis, and died there only a few days later, June 13. He
was in the 26th year of his age. He was a member of the

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executive committee of the Yale Alumni Association of
Colorado. One brother, William K., graduated from the
Sheffield Scientific School in 1900, and two others, J. Sid-
ney, Jr., and Carroll T., from the Academical Department
in 1905 and 1909, respectively.

John Edward Copps was born February 9, 1885, in West
Rutland, Vt, the son of Edward and Bridget Josephine
Copps.

He was prepared for college at the Rutland High School,
and after a year at the College of the Holy Cross joined the
class in Yale at the beginning of Sophomore year.

After graduation he studied law in the office of his
uncle, Thomas Maloney, in Rutland, and after his admission
to the bar in October, 1908, began a promising career in his
profession.

He died at Rutland, October 18, 1910, of typhoid fever
following pneumonia. He was 25 years of age.

Stanley Noble Jameson, son of Martin Alexander Jame-
son (Nat. Normal Univ. 1877), a lawyer of Lebanon, O.,
was born in that town March 18, 1880. His mother was
Sarah Maria (Coleman) Jameson. He was prepared for
college at the Lebanon High School, and entered the
National Normal University with the class of 1900. After
completing the scientific and classical courses there, he
joined his class in Yale at the beginning of Senior year.

After graduation he entered the banking house of H. W.
Bennett & Co. in New York City, but about two years later
removed to St. Petersburg, Fla., to take the position of
assistant cashier of the First National Bank there. In
January, 191 1, he was appointed cashier and a director of
the bank. Two weeks later he was attacked with typhoid
fever complicated with pneumonia, and died March 4. He
was nearly 31 years of age, and unmarried.

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Witter Laurens Johnston, son of Witter H. Johnston,
a lawyer, and Mallie (MacBride) Johnson, was born Decem-
ber 22, 1881, at Fort Dodge, la. He was prepared for
college at the High School there, and graduated from Coe
College at Cedar Rapids in 1904, the following year entering
Yale in the Senior class.

After completing his course in New Haven he was with
the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. in Chicago for a
year, in 1907 entered the credit department of the Carnegie
Steel Co. in Pittsburg, and in January, 19 10, was appointed
manager of the credit department of the warehouses of that
company in Waverly, N. J.

Mr. Johnston resided in Elizabeth, N. J., but in April,
1910, while staying a few days with friends in Montclair
for rest he was taken ill. He died of heart disease at the
Mountainside Hospital there, July 29, 1910, in the 29th
year of his age. He was unmarried. His father and a
sister survive him. He had been a member of the Pres-
byterian Church since 1895.

John Warner, son of Edward T. and Mary Warner, was
born October 17, 1884, m Wilmington, Del. He was pre-
pared for college at Saint Paul's School, Concord, N. H.
His father died in 1904, during his college course.

After graduation he entered the business of Charles
Warner & Co., dealers in coal, ice, and construction
materials in Wilmington.

Mr. Warner died in Wilmington, May 29, 191 1, after
an operation for appendicitis. He was 26 years old.

1907

Douglas Jerrold Abbey Bell, son of Charles Henry
Bell, a merchant of Portland, Conn., was born there June
1, 1885. His mother was Elizabeth Biggs (Crossland)
Bell.

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He was prepared for college in the Middletown High
School. He gained a Junior Appointment, and was also
a member of the University Orchestra.

After graduation he spent the summer abroad with his
classmate Harrison P. Rich, and on his return became a
representative of the Oldsmobile Co. for the upper penin-
sula of Michigan. Several months later he entered the
employ of the Chalmers Detroit Motor Car Co. in the
repairs order department, and remained there till July, 1910.
After spending the summer with his family at Sebago Lake,
Me., he returned to Michigan, and died of kidney trouble
at Detroit, September 4. He was 25 years of age and
unmarried. He was a member of Trinity [P. E.] Church,
Portland.

1909

Denton Fowler, son of Everett Fowler, a brick manu-
facturer and bank president of Haverstraw, N. Y., was born
in that place July 28, 1885. His mother was Anna (Den-
nison) Fowler. He was prepared for college in the Law-
renceville (N. J.) School.

He was a member of the class of 1908 during Freshman
year, but joined 1909 at the beginning of Sophomore year.
He was a member of the University Glee Club, and of the
Class Day committee at graduation.

After finishing his college course he entered the employ
of the Atlas Brick Co., of Hudson, N. Y., of which his
father was an officer, and later was appointed paymaster.

As he was driving through the woods two miles south of
Hudson, carrying a large sum of money to pay the
employees of the company, Mr. Fowler was attacked and
shot by five highwaymen, others acting as signal men, and
died two hours later at the Hudson Hospital, September 3,
19 10. He was 25 years of age and unmarried. He was a
member of the Central Presbyterian Church of Haverstraw.

n6 YALE COLLEGE

Morton Weeks, son of Nelson Edward Weeks, president
of the Rand Avery Supply Company of Boston, Mass., and
of Louise (Morton) Weeks, was born March 16, 1887, in
Brookline, Mass. He was prepared for Yale at the Har-
strom School, and while in college was for two years a mem-
ber of the University Track Team.

After graduation he spent two months in Europe, in
September, 1909, entered the employ of the Lockwood
Manufacturing Co. in South Norwalk, Conn., and shortly
afterward was promoted to the secretaryship of that cor-
poration but died at his home in Brookline of acute tuber-
culosis, March 27, 191 1. He was 24 years old, and
unmarried.

The following sketch is continuous with those on pages
99 to 102 :

1889

John Underhill, son of Anthony Lispenard Underbill,
a newspaper publisher and editor, and Charlotte Louise
(McBeath) Underhill, was born January 20, 1868, at Bath,
N. Y.

While in college he was a member of the University
Glee Club three years, and chairman of the Senior Prom-
enade Committee.

After graduation he was for two years an assistant to his
father, who was at that time postmaster of Bath, and in
April, 1 89 1, became local editor of the Steuben Farmer s
Advocate. He was also secretary of the Hammondsport
Vintage Company, and in 1893-94 secretary of the Bath
Board of Health. In March, 1896, he purchased the Wyom-
ing County Times, and settled in Warsaw in that county,
where he took great interest in politics, and was for several
years chairman of the Wyoming County Democratic Com-
mittee. He was also president of the Board of Education
of Warsaw.

1909, 1889

iiy

Mr. Underhill died at his home in Warsaw, N. Y., May
18, 191 1, at the age of 43 years.

He married in Bath, October 18, 1893, Josephine,
daughter of Frank P. and Rhoda H. Frost. She died in
March, 1898, leaving a daughter. December 14, 1899 he
married in Castile, N. Y., Susan Louise, daughter of John
Wilbur and Dora (Thayer) Chace, and by her had two
daughters and a son. Mrs. Underhill and the son survive
him.

A brother graduated from the Academical Department
in 1881.

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i853

William Tomlinson Booth, son of William Agur and
Alida (Russell) Booth, was born December 2, 1831, in New
York City, and graduated from Williams College in 1850.
His father was president of the Third National Bank of
New York City, a director of Union Theological Seminary,
trustee of Robert College and the Syrian Protestant College,
and an officer of leading philanthropic societies.

After his graduation from the Medical School he did not
practice medicine, but entered the sugar business with his
father, and subsequently became identified with the New
York Life Insurance Co. He retired from active business
a number of years ago. He was for many years an elder
of the Presbyterian Church and prominent in its philan-
thropic work.

Mr. Booth died at his home in Englewood, N. J., March
21, 191 1, in the 80th year of his age.

He married in New York City, November 12, 1857, Mary,
daughter of Louis Hart, a merchant, and had two daughters,
one of whom died in infancy, and a son.

Paul Cheeseborough Skiff, son of Luther and Hannah
(Comstock) Skiff, was born October 4, 1828, on a farm
which had been owned by the family for one hundred and
twenty-five years in Kent, Conn.

When fifteen years old he went to the home of his aunt
in Austinburg, O., in the Western Reserve, to obtain an
education. The voyage through the Erie Canal from
Albany to Buffalo took nine days, and during the passage
across Lake Erie, the boat drifted helpless four days in a
storm. While studying at Grand River Institute he was a
roommate for two years of John Brown, Jr., and frequently

1853-1878 II9

saw Captain John Brown of Ossawattomie, who lived not
far away. He then intended to enter the ministry, and was
about to join the Sophomore class in Western Reserve
College, then at Hudson, when he was suddenly called home
by the illness of his eldest brother.

He became manager of the home farm and taught school
awhile, and then entered the Yale Medical School. After
graduating here he spent nearly two years in Jefferson
Medical College, Philadelphia. Returning to New Haven
in 1859 ne began the practice of medicine. After careful
consideration and partly through the influence of his
cousin, Dr. Charles Skiff, he adopted the principles of
homoeopathy, although he maintained an independent
attitude towards all theories. He was one of the founders
of the Connecticut Homoeopathic Society. For many years
he was one of the leading physicians of the city, and his
skill and kindliness endeared him to a large circle of families.
He died of paralysis at his summer home in Kent, Conn.,
August 26, 1910, in his 82d year. He was buried in the
Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven.

Dr. Skiff married in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 10, 1874,
Emma McGregor Ely, daughter of John M. and Emily
(Punderson) Ely. She survives him with their daughter.

1878

John Philip Henriques, son of John Ashcroft Hen-
riques, a sea captain in the United States Revenue Service,
and Ellen (Stoddard) Henriques, was born July 23, 1856,
in New Haven, Conn. After taking the course in the New
Britain High School, he studied a year in the Sheffield
Scientific School before entering the Medical School.

Upon graduation he began the practice of his profession
in New Haven, from 1879 to 1881 was in hospitals in Ham-
burg, Vienna, and Prague, and in 1884 settled in Provi-
dence, R. I. He was examining surgeon for the United
States Recruiting office in that city.

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Dr. Henriques died of Bright's disease at his home in
Edgewood, a suburb of Providence, June 6, 1910, in the
54th year of his age.

He married in November, 1906, Bertha Sherman White,
daughter of Cornelius Allen and Harriet (Sherman) White.
She survives him with a son.

1891

James Henry McInerny, one of eight children of Jere-
miah and Marie (Cunningham) McInerny, was born July
15, 1869, in Worcester, Mass., and took his preparatory
course in the High School there.

After graduation from the Medical School he practiced
as a surgeon in New York City. He was for some time
gynecologist of the General Memorial Hospital, and later
general surgeon there.

Dr. McInerny died at his summer home at Mount Vernon,
N. Y., September 5, 1910. He was 41 years of age. He
was a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

He married in New York City, November 7, 1893, Caro-
line, daughter of William Cookman Hutchens, who sur-
vives him with their two sons and three daughters.

Four of his brothers have taken collegiate degrees (M.D.
Univ. Baltimore 1901, LL.B. Boston Univ. 1901, B.A. Coll.
Holy Cross 1902, and B.A. Clark Univ. 1906, respectively).

1896

Larmon Winthrop Abbott, son of Edward T. Abbott,
a manufacturer, and Emilie Augusta (Doolittle) Abbott,
was born November 8, 1873, in Waterbury, Conn. He took
his preparatory studies at the High School in Bridgeport
and the Pennington (N. J.) Seminary.

After graduating from the Medical School with honor he
was for eighteen years on the house staff of the New Haven
Hospital, then practiced in his native city a short time, and

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continued elsewhere in Connecticut — at New Preston two
years, Broad Brook five or six years, and during his last
years in Bridgeport. He was medical examiner for
the New York Life Insurance Co., and while in New Preston
a member of the local school board. He was a member of
the Congregational Church in Broad Brook.

Dr. Abbott died of kidney disease in Bridgeport, Feb-
ruary 26, 1909, at the age of 35 years.

He married in Bridgeport, September 27, 1898, Myrtle,
daughter of Lemuel W. Titman, a farmer of Auburn, Pa.,
and had a son who with Mrs. Abbott survives him.

1897

Percy Duncan Littlejohn, son of Elliott Littlejohn, a
hardware manufacturer, and Sarah (Mallory) Littlejohn,
was born December 4, 1874, in New Haven, Conn.

After graduation he was house physician in the New
Haven. Hospital, and after his term of service there,
practiced in New Haven.

He died suddenly of heart disease at his home in New
Haven, February 11, 191 1, at the age of 36 years. His
father and two sisters survive him. He was unmarried.

1906

Isaiah Hagob Halladjian, son of Hagob Hovhanness
and Elmast Garabed (Babikian) Halladjian, was born May
1, 1879, m Aintab, Turkey. He graduated from Central
Turkey College in 1901, and taught a year each in Oorfa
and Adana, Turkey, before coming to the United States.

After his graduation he practiced his profession in Boston,
Mass.

Dr. Halladjian died at North Reading, Mass., July 30,
1910, at the age of 31 years. He was not married.

He was a member of the First Congregational Church in
Aintab.

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1862

Charles Peter Whittemore, son of Joel and Rachel
Rebecca (Brown) Whittemore, was born January 28, 1841,
at Springfield, N. H. His father was twice elected a mem-
ber of the New Hampshire Legislature, but in 1851 removed
with his family to Illinois, where he died in 1855. In J857
the family went to Galva, 111., and from there the son entered
the Yale Law School.

After graduation he practiced a year in Davenport, la.,
but then gave up the law to care for a large tract of land in
Wayne County, la., removing in 1892 to Mount Vernon,
la., where he devoted his time mainly to this estate. He
died there March 12, 191 1, at the age of 70 years.

Mr. Whittemore married in Galva, 111., December 24,
1864, Gertrude Elizabeth, daughter of John and Nancy
Louisa (Robinson) McKenzie, and had six children, four
sons and two daughters. One of his sons died in infancy.
One son graduated from Cornell College, Iowa, in 1894,
and another son from the Law Department of the State
University of Iowa in 1904. In the early history of the
state he was a strong power for law and righteousness.
In 1877 he became a member of the First Methodist Church
of Davenport.

He wrote frequently for the press, an article in the
Chicago Tribune on the financial policy of the Republican
party attracting much attention. He was a Republican,
but later left the party and joined the Prohibitionists.

1866

Chester Dwight Cleveland, son of Rufus and Sally
Ann (Burnham) Cleveland, was born October 22, 1839, at
Winchester, Conn.

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He was prepared for college at Williston Seminary, East-
hampton, Mass., but April 16, 1861, enlisted in the Second
Connecticut Volunteers, and served to the end of the Civil
War. August 26 he was commissioned Second Lieutenant
of Company E, Nineteenth Connecticut Volunteers, which
was afterward organized as the Second Connecticut Heavy
Artillery, and after promotion through the grades of First
Lieutenant and Captain he was appointed Major January
9, 1865. Later he was commissioned Brevet Lieutenant-
Colonel for gallant and meritorious service before Peters-
burg and at the battle of Little Sailor Creek, Va.

After the war he entered the Yale Law School, and on
receiving his law degree practiced his profession in Oshkosh,
Wise, where he was County Judge from 1885 to the close
of his life. He was also president of the Public Library
Board of the city.

Judge Cleveland died at Oshkosh, June 7, 1910, at the age
of 70 years.

He married in Oshkosh, Catharine, daughter of Owen
and Sarah (Lloyd) Hughes, and had a son and daughter
(both B.A. Univ. Wise. 1894), who survive him.

1870

Charles Kimberly Bush, eldest of the three sons of
Benjamin Piatt and Charlotte Ward (Kimberly) Bush, was
born in Milford, Conn., May 17, 1846.

After graduation from the Law School he was for
forty years a lawyer in New Haven, residing in West
Haven, where for fifteen years he had been prosecuting
attorney of the town of Orange. During the session of
the State Legislature of 1909-10 he was a Republican mem-
ber of the House of Representatives, and on the Judiciary
Committee. He was a vestryman of Christ (P. E.) Church,
West Haven.

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He died of tuberculosis at his home in West Haven
September 15, 1910, at the age of 64 years.

Mr. Bush married, January 27, 1874, Marie Elizabeth,
daughter of Jens and Charlotte Marion (Finlay) Tikiob,
of St. Croix, N. S., and had five sons and one daughter.
Two of the sons graduated from the Sheffield Scientific
School in 1897 and 1904, respectively, and the daughter
from Western Reserve in 1898.

1876

William Caldwell Anderson, son of William and
Catherine (Bonbright) Anderson, was born January 23,
1852, at Youngstown, Pa. His mother was a sister of Pro-
fessor Daniel Bonbright, LL.D. (B.A. Yale 1850) of North-
western University. He was a member of the class of 1873
in the College for a month, and then left on account of
his health, but later took the classical course in Lafayette
College, graduating in 1873.

He then read law in Pittsburg, Pa., with Major A. M.
Brown until February, 1875, when he entered the Yale Law
School and pursued an elective course for a year. In 1880
he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws and was
enrolled with the class of 1876. On leaving New Haven he
returned to Pittsburg, and after admission to the bar July
16, 1876, practiced his profession in that city.

He was the author of "Rules of the Courts of Pennsyl-
vania," 1879, "Dictionary of Law," 1889, "The Law of
Railway Liens," and other legal works. r<or several years
he had been engaged in revising his Law Dictionary, and
the volume was nearly ready for publication, when he suf-
fered a nervous breakdown.

He died two months later, November 25, 1910, at his home
in Wilkinsburg, a suburb of Pittsburg. He was 58 years
of age. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church,
and active in the organizations connected with the church.

1870-1880 125

Mr. Anderson married, July 10, 1884, Elizabeth K.
Pershing, vice-president of the Pennsylvania College for
Women at Pittsburg, and daughter of Dr. I. C. Pershing,
formerly president of that college. Mrs. Anderson and a
sister survive him.

1877

Leverett Camp Hinman, son of Franklin E. and Phoebe
E. (Camp) Hinman, was born February 25, 1856, in Meri-
den, Conn. He finished his college preparation with .a
private tutor, and was then for a time with relatives in
Nebraska, engaged in farming. Later he spent two years
in Iowa (now Grinnell) College, before entering the Yale
Law School. '

For a short time after his graduation and admission to
the bar he practiced in Wallingford, Conn., and then
removed to Bucyrus, O., where he was general counsel for
railway, coal, and iron companies. After three or four
years he returned to Meriden, and continued practice, being
Clerk of the City Court from 1895 to 1902, and since then
City Attorney.

Mr. Hinman died at his home in Meriden, December 15,
1907, after a lingering illness from a complication of dis-
eases. He was 51 years of age.

He married, in 1879, Jennie E., daughter of P. Henry
and Lola G. (Addis) Burns, of Westfield, a village in Mid-
dletown, Conn. They had no children.

1880

James Eugene Walsh, eldest of the ten children of
Martin and Elizabeth (Ahern) Walsh, was born December
9, 1857, in Pittsfield, Mass.

After graduation from the Law School he established
himself in practice at Danbury, Conn., having among his
clients several large manufacturing firms. During the last
ten years he also had an office in New York.

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He held many local offices in Danbury, being- Judge of
the City Court, and for over fifteen years town counsel,
president of the Board of Aldermen, and acting- mayor in
1890, and during the last ten years of his life United States
commissioner of Danbury.

Mr. Walsh died at his home in Danbury, December 26,
1910, after an illness of a year from heart trouble. He was
53 years of age.

He married at Danbury, June 30, 1901, Mary Egbert,
only daughter of William E. and Helen Benedict, who sur-
vives him with one son and three daughters. A brother,
Walter John Walsh (LL.B. Yale 1897), is a practicing law-
yer in New Haven.

f

1887

Shunzo Sawada, son of Jinyemon Sawada, a retainer
of the Lord of Oshi in the feudal time and captain of a
company of rifle bearers, was born July 13, 1859, in the
town of Oshi, Japan. His mother's name was Riki (Kido)
Sawada.

Before coming to the United States he studied in the
Shingakukwan School and the Foreign Language School
in his own town, and under Mr. George Hill, an American
lawyer in Yokohama.

After graduation from the Yale Law School he spent his
life in the practice of his profession in Japan, and was
elected vice-chairman of the Tokyo Bar Association in 1898.
He was at different times a lecturer at the Tokyo Summon
Gakke and Keiogojuku University. He was also a director
of the Oji Paper Mills. In political matters he was always
a member of the Progressionist party.

He was the author of "The Japanese Race surveyed from
a Legal Standpoint," "Hints on Baby Nurseries," and other
volumes.

Mr. Sawada died in Tokyo, May 15, 1909, in the 50th
year of his age. He was a Buddhist.

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He married, May 15, 1877, Sei Yamada, daughter of
Naoki Yamada, who survives him with a son.

1892

John James Healey, son of John Joseph and Margaret
Elizabeth (Hackett) Healey, was born July 18, 1872, in
Boston, Mass., but entered the Law School from Saratoga
Springs, N. Y. During his Senior year he was a member
of the first board of editors of the Yale Law Journal.

After graduation he returned to Saratoga Springs, where
he had since practiced his profession, making a specialty of
corporation law. In 1904-05 he was the village attorney.
During the last few years he also had an office in New
York City, and for a number of years had been the legal
representative of an association of cities formed for defense
against suits for alleged infringement of patents in sewer
construction, arguing their cases before the Supreme Court.

Mr. Healey died November 11, 1910, in a hospital at Sara-
toga Springs, after an operation for acute peritonitis and
sarcoma. He was 38 years of age, and not married. He
was a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

1894

Timothy Francis Callahan, son of Timothy Callahan,
a carpenter, and Mary (Doody) Callahan, was born May
30, 1850, at Spring Grove, County Cork, Ireland. The
family came to this country and settled in New Haven about

1853-

When eighteen years old he enlisted in the regular army,
and served three years in the Fifteenth Infantry during
the Sioux and other Indian uprisings. He was honorably
discharged in 1870, with the rank of sergeant and with
a medal for bravery. He afterward served nearly thirty
years in the Connecticut National Guard, rising from a
private to Colonel, commanding his regiment from Decem-
ber, 1899, to December, 1900.

128 LAW SCHOOL

From 1870 to 1882 he was engaged in various occupa
tions, and then was appointed clerk in the Probate Court
of New Haven. He held this position till 1896, in the
meantime taking the course in the Law School. On retir-
ing from this clerkship he practiced law for a time, being
regarded as an authority on probate law. In 1898 and
1900 he was Democratic candidate for Judge of the Probate
Court.

In 1901 he was appointed a member of the Board of
Assessors of New Haven, in 1910 being president of the
board. He continued in the office of assessor until his
death, which occurred from kidney disease, at his home
in New Haven, October 19, 1910. He was 60 years of age.
He was a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

Colonel Callahan married, February 23, 1876, Minnie,
daughter of Bernard and Catherine (McGrail) Brennan,
who survives him with two sons and four daughters. One
of the sons graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School
in 1905.

i895

William Henry Cox, son of James Henry Cox, a drug-
gist, was born in Karus City, Butler County, Pa., December
19, 1873.

He received the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1893
from Geneva College, at Beaver Falls, Pa., and from there
entered the Yale Law School.

On his graduation from the latter he began his legal
practice in Chicago, 111., but afterward moved to Beaver
Falls, where he continued in practice until his death, July
3, 1909. He was 35 years of age.

1908

William Matthew Aiken, son of James E. Aiken, a
merchant, and Bessie Carter (Taylor) Aiken, was born
April 28, 1 88 1, at Perthshire, Miss., and was a member of

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the Law class of 1902 in Cumberland (Tenn.) University.
He enlisted in the United States Cavalry in January, 1902,
and during his service of nearly five years in the West and
in the Philippines continued his law study as he was able,
joining his class in the Yale Law School in Senior year.

After graduation he was for a few months a law examiner
in the Forest Service in Washington, D. C, but on Decem-
ber 1, 1908, was appointed a district law officer of forest
lands in several states of the Northwest, with headquarters
at Missoula, Mont., and in this service was making a most
creditable record.

Mr. Aiken's death was the termination of a hunting trip
begun October 1, 19 10. Toward night of the first day he
was seized with an acute attack of nephritis, in the moun-
tains east of the Bitter Root Valley, Mont., but with one
companion spent the night on an exposed divide at a high
altitude without shelter. Owing to his exhausted condition
his companion was compelled to leave him in search of help,
but lost his way and did not reach the nearest settlement
until the next morning. Many men who had been associated
with Mr. Aiken joined the searching party, but snow
impeded progress, and it was not until October 5 that his
body was found. He had died October 2 or 3. He was
in his 30th year. He was buried at Pleasanton, La. He
was a member of the Episcopal Church.

He married at Missoula, Mont., January 30, 1909, Vee,
daughter of J. N. Esles, who survives him with a son.

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1852

William Henry Brewer, son of Henry and Rebecca
(DuBois) Brewer, was born September 14, 1828, in Pough-
keepsie, N. Y., but spent his childhood and youth on his
father's farm at Enfield, near Ithaca, N. Y., where he took
part in all kinds of farm work. He early showed a taste
for natural science, especially botany and chemistry, but his
reading of the published letters of Professor John Pitkin
Norton of the Sheffield Scientific School and of Justus
von Liebig, Professor at Giessen, Germany, fixed his
attention on the application of chemistry to agriculture.
After studying in a private academy at Ithaca, he came in
1848 to New Haven and studied for two years with Pro-
fessor Norton, learning how to analyze the soils of the home
farm and make them more productive. He taught natural
science a year each at Ithaca Academy and Lancaster,
N. Y., and then returned to New Haven, where after passing
his examinations he received the degree of Bachelor of
Philosophy with the first class to be graduated from the
Sheffield Scientific School.

After taking his degree he taught at the Ovid (N. Y.)
Academy three years, and then went abroad, studying in
Paris, Heidelberg, and Munich. In October, 1858, he
became Professor of Natural Science in Washington (now
Washington and Jefferson) College, Pa., but resigned in
September, i860, to become first assistant on the California
State Geological Survey, continuing in this work four years.
He made extensive surveys in the Coast Range, and
explored the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the region
about Mount Shasta. In the work in the Sierras he was
accompanied by Clarence King (Ph.B. Yale 1862). Near
Mount Whitney, which he named, is a high peak which

1852 I3I

he discovered and which was named Mount Brewer. In
1869, with Professor Josiah D. Whitney, LL.D. (B.A.
Yale 1839) and a party of students he explored the Rocky
Mountains in the regions about Mount Lincoln and Mount
Yale, naming Mounts Yale and Harvard and the Mount of
the Holy Cross.

In 1863-64 he was Professor of Natural Science in the
University of California, but in 1864 he was called to the
Norton Professorship of Agriculture in the Sheffield Scien-
tific School, which was established that year and named in
memory of Professor Norton, with whom he had studied.
Professor Brewer continued in active service in this position
until 1903, when he was made Professor Emeritus.

He received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale in
1859, of Doctor of Philosophy from Washington and Jef-
ferson College in 1880, and of Doctor of Laws from Yale
in 1903, the latter degree also from Wesleyan University in
1904, and from the University of California in 1910.

His interests were broad, and he was full of public spirit,
being continually called to many forms of helpful service
outside of the University. His addresses at farm meetings
throughout the state stimulated intelligent and progressive
methods, and made the early Reports of the State Board of
Agriculture widely sought for as an encyclopedia of farm-
ing. He made special researches in the evolution of the
horse, particularly with reference to speed. From 1872 to
1889 he was a member of the New Haven Board of Health,
and its acting president for twelve years; also an original
member of the Connecticut State Board of Health serving
by yearly reappointment since 1878, and was its president
from 1893 to 1909. He was chairman of the Commission
on the State topographical survey from 1889 till the work
was completed in 1895. In 1896 he was a member of the
United States Forestry Commission which reported on
forest conditions in the West. Since 1880 he had been a
member of the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1902

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was chairman of its committee which at the request of Presi-
dent Roosevelt drew up a plan for a scientific survey of
the Philippine Islands. This was presented to Congress in
1905. In 1887 and 1897 he was president of the Connecti-
cut Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was vice-president
of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science in 1893.

With his associate and friend, Professor Samuel W. John-
son, he worked for the establishment of an agricultural
experiment station in Connecticut, the first of its kind in the
United States, and was a member of its Board of Control
from its organization in 1877 to the end of his life, and its
secretary and treasurer till 1902.

Professor Brewer's knowledge of the Pacific Coast region
made him urge the desirability of acquiring Alaska for the
United States, and much of the credit for its purchase was
due to him. In 1900 he was a member of the Harriman
Expedition to Alaska.

In recent years he had been greatly interested in Arctic
exploration, and in 1894 was one of the party on the
Miranda which Svas wrecked near the Arctic Circle. On
the return from this trip the Arctic Club of America was
formed, of which he was the first president.

He was constantly adding to his wonderful fund of
general and useful information. He was the most com-
panionable of . men and during his extensive journeys
enjoyed observing and recording facts in all departments of
human interest. He was an author in part of "The Botany
of California," with Sereno Watson edited the monographs
on "Production of Cereals in the United States," 1864, in
the Reports of the Tenth Census, and published about one
hundred and thirty papers and documents.

Professor Brewer died at his home in New Haven,
November 2, 1910, from the infirmities of age, having been
confined to the house but a few days. He was 82 years old.
He joined the College Church in February, 1866.

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He married, at Ovid, N. Y., August 14, 1858, Angelina
Jameson of Gorham, Me. She died in June, i860, and a
son died in infancy. He was married again at Exeter,
N. H., September 1, 1868, to Georgiana, daughter of Jere-
miah L. Robinson, a shoe manufacturer, and had a daughter,
the wife of Clifford S. Griswold (B.A. Trinity Coll. 1890),
and three sons (Ph.B. Yale 1894 and 1897, respectively, and
B.A. Yale 1905). Mrs. Brewer died January 3, 1889, but
their children all survive.

Since his death Professor Brewer's family have given a
large number of his books on agriculture and the natural
sciences to the University Library.

1856

Nathan Smith Bronson,, son of Dr. Henry Bronson
(M.D. Yale 1827) and Sarah Miles (Lathrop) Bronson,
was born November 20, 1837, in Waterbury, Conn. His
father was a New Haven physician, and for seventeen years
Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Yale
Medical School.

After preparation in General Russell's Collegiate and
Commercial Institute, he entered the Sheffield Scientific
School in 1854 and took the course in Engineering.

Upon graduation he went into the wholesale grocery
business, but failing health made a change necessary after
a few years. In 1864 he bought a farm in New Britain,
which he conducted with success for thirty years, excelling
in his fruits and stock. His father died in 1893, and Mr.
Bronson then sold his farm, and retiring from active busi-
ness, removed to his old home in New Haven, where he
died May 1, 191 1, at the age of 73 years. He was buried
in New Britain. He was a member of the United (Con-
gregational) Church.

He married, at Torrington, Conn., May 30, 1861, Char-
lotte Ann, daughter of Burton Pond, who died in 1871.
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who survives him. March II, 1874, he married Jane Eliza,
daughter of Samuel and Jane (Tomlinson) Camp. She
died in 1875, but a daughter is living. He married May
7, 1879, Sarah Sophia, daughter of Martin and Elizabeth
Brown, who survives him with a daughter (B.A. Vassar
1908) and a son, who is a Junior in the Academical Depart-
ment. Two sons by this marriage died in childhood. A
brother (B.A. Yale 1855) survives him, but a brother (M.D.
Yale 1866) died in 1880.

1867

William Harmon Niles, son of Rev. Asa and Mary
Ann (Marcy) Niles, was born May 18, 1838, in Northamp-
ton, Mass., and after preparation at Wesleyan Academy in
Wilbraham, Mass., and a course of study in the Lawrence
Scientific School (now included in Harvard University),
from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Science
in 1866, entered his class in the Sheffield Scientific School
in Junior year.

After his graduation from Yale he lectured regularly on
natural science before the Massachusetts State Teachers'
Institute from 1867 to 1877, and delivered numerous other
lectures on geological and geographical subjects from 1867
to 1890, including full courses at the Lowell Institute in
Boston and the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. In 1871
he was appointed Professor of Geology and Geography at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1872 he
was elected to the chair of Geology in Boston University and
after filling a lectureship for several years in Wellesley
College was also made Professor of Geology there. The
last position he continued to hold, but became Professor
Emeritus in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
in Boston University in 1902.

He received an honorary degree of Master of Arts from
Wesleyan University in 1870, and of Doctor of Laws from
Temple University (Philadelphia) in 1903.

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Professor Niles was president of the Boston Society of
Natural History, of the New England Meteorological
Society for twelve years, and of the Appalachian Mountain
Club for three terms, was fellow of the Geological Society
and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a
member of many other scientific societies, corresponding
member of the New York Academy of Sciences and the
Peabody Academy of Sciences, and a director of the Pea-
body Museum of Archaeology in Cambridge. He contrib-
uted numerous papers to scientific journals, treating
especially of the expansion of rocks and earth pressure, of
glaciers, and of crinoids.

Professor Niles died at his home in Boston, September
13, 1910, at the age of 72 years.

He married, December 31, 1869, Helen Maria, daughter
of Sylvanus Plympton (M.D. Harv. 1808).

1868

Joseph Scott McKell, one of thirteen children and son
of William and Phebe (Cook) McKell, was born September
17, 1846, in Chillicothe, O. He took the Select course in
the Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he engaged in the china and glassware
trade, entering the firm of McKell & Co. founded by his
father in 1832. Of this business he later became the head,
and was also an officer of many other business organiza-
tions. He was for several years president of the Fidelity
Building & Loan Co., president of the Home Telephone
Co., director of the Central National Bank, and the Savings
Bank — both in Chillicothe — and the Chillicothe Gas &
Water Co., also president of the Portsmouth (Ohio) Tele-
phone Co.

Mr. McKell died at his home in Chillicothe, September
29, 1 910, at the age of 64 years. He was a member and
trustee of the Methodist Church.

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He married January 18, 1881, Helen, daughter of David
McCandless of Pittsburg, Pa., first chairman of the Edgar
Thompson Steel Works. They had two sons, one being a
graduate of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point in
1904, and the other, after leaving the class of 1905 in the
Sheffield Scientific School, graduating at Leland Stanford,
Junior, University in 1908. Mrs. McKell and the sons
survive him.

1869

Horace Franklin Whitman, son of Stephen French
and Lydia Ann (Rowland) Whitman, was born September
7, 1848, in Philadelphia, Pa.

After preparation at the Friends' Central School in that
city he took the Select course in the Sheffield Scientific
School.

On graduation he went into business, in 1871 entering
into partnership with his father in the firm of Stephen F.
Whitman & Son, manufacturers of chocolates and other
confections. His father died in 1888, after which Mr.
Whitman became the head of the firm.

He had been ill from arterial sclerosis for over a year,
and died at his home in Philadelphia, January 9, 191 1, at
the age of 62 years.

He married in Philadelphia, October 6, 187 1, Ida Susanna,
daughter of William Clark and Olivia (Lewis) Cox. She
survives him with one daughter.

1871

Edwin Faxon Bacon, son of James and Mary (Wright)
Bacon, was born June 2, 1832, in Lockport, N. Y.

Before coming to college he was engaged in various
business employments in the West and South, and taught
at Bloomington, 111., Norwalk, Conn., and Wilmington, Del.
He was fitted for college at the Illinois Normal University

1868-1875 i37

at Normal, 111., and the Peoria (111.) High School, and then
took the Select course in the Sheffield Scientific School.

The year after graduation he taught in the Hopkins
Grammar School, and since then had devoted his life to
teaching, study, travel, and writing. He made a specialty
of instruction in French and German. He was in Europe
from 1873 to J^75 and from 1882 to 1885, besides making
shorter trips abroad in 1897 and 1900. While in Paris he
taught and lectured in English at the Institut Polyglotte.
From 1877 to 1889 (except during his three years abroad)
he taught in Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey City, and since
the opening of the State Normal School at Oneonta, N. Y.,
had taught French and German there, recently also Spanish.

He published French and German text-books, lectured
on "The Passion Play at Oberammergau as seen in 1900"
and in Paris on "Success," and wrote a "History of
Otsego County, N. Y.," 1902. Under the pen name of
Luke Sharpe he was a constant contributor to local papers
on health and culture, and occasionally lectured on these
and kindred subjects.

Mr. Bacon died at the hospital in Oneonta, December 17,
1910, after a brief illness from uraemic poisoning. He was
78 years of age, and was never married.

1875

John Gilbert Bramley, son of John W. and Margaret
(McCune) Bramley, was born June 5, 1848, in Bovina Cen-
ter, Delaware County, N. Y. He was prepared at Williston
Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., for the Sheffield Scientific
School, where he took the Civil Engineering course.

After graduation he studied law, in the office of Isaac
Maynard at Stamford, N. Y., and since then had practiced
that profession in Jordan, Onondaga County, N. Y.

He died from an accident at Otisville, Orange County,
N. Y., September 15, 1910, at the age of 62 years. He was
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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He married at Jordan, September 27, 1883, Amelia,
daughter of Marvin Hardy of the neighboring town of
Elbridge. She survives him with two of their three sons.

1876

James Lawrence Houghteling, son of William DeZeng
and Marcia Elizabeth (Stockbridge) Houghteling, was born
November 29, 1855, in Chicago, 111. He was prepared for
college in the Chicago High School and under a private
tutor, and took the Select course in the Sheffield Scientific
School.

After graduation he engaged in the lumber business from
1877 to 1883, serving as secretary of the Menominee River
Lumber Co. and treasurer of the Mackinaw Lumber Co.,
with offices in Chicago. He then entered the banking busi-
ness in Chicago with his father-in-law, the firm later becom-
ing Peabody, Houghteling & Co., and being widely known
for the highest standards of business integrity. At the same
time he continued his interests in timber lands and lum-
bering.

From 1880 to 1884 he was president of the Young Men's
Christian Association of Chicago. He was besides a mem-
ber of the International Committee and was deeply con-
cerned for the welfare of young men. He was vestryman
of St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church from 1881 to
1897 and as a practical outgrowth of his Bible class in the
church he formed in 1883 the first chapter of the Brother-
hood of St. Andrew, which has developed into a world-wide
organization. He was president of the national Brother-
hoods for seven years. He was also one of the founders
of the Municipal Voters' League of Chicago.

In 1 901 he received from Yale the honorary degree of
Master of Arts. He was a member of the Council of the
Yale Foreign Missionary Society, supporting the work in
Changsha, China.

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Since 1898 his home had been in Winnetka, a suburb
of Chicago, where he died after an illness of eight months
from nephritis, July 28, 1910, in the 55th year of his age.

Mr. Hough teling married, September 20, 1879, Lucretia
TenBroeck Peabody, daughter of Francis Bolles and
Harriet C. (TenBroeck) Peabody, and sister of Francis
S. (Ph.B. Yale 1881) and Augustus S. Peabody (B.A. Yale
1895), and had three sons and three daughters. The sons
have attended Yale, one being a graduate of the class of
1905 in the College, the other two being members of 1903
in the College, and 1908 in the Sheffield Scientific School,
respectively.

1881

Warren Alphonse Spalding, son of Abial and Lucia
Lull (Blanchard) Spalding, was born December 9, 1845, at
Windsor, Vt. He entered the drug business in Pittsfield,
Mass., but in 1873 came to New Haven, Conn., and estab-
lished a business exclusively for the sale of drugs, of which
he continued in charge for nearly thirty-five years. He
opened a branch store in Springfield, Mass., in 1901.

Mr. Spalding was for two years a special student in the
Sheffield Scientific School, and in 1902 was enrolled as a
graduate. From 1892 to 1904 he was Demonstrator in
Pharmacy in the Medical School. July 1, 1907, he accepted
the presidency of the National Tradesmens Bank and on
taking office placed his drug business in the hands of his
son. He was also vice-president and a trustee of the New
Haven Savings Bank, and a director of the Security Insur-
ance Company. He had recently been appointed a member
of the Board of Education, and was a member of the
Governing Board of the New Haven Hospital and its
treasurer. He was a member of the Calvary Baptist
Church.

Mr. Spalding died of Bright's disease at his home in
New Haven, April 16, 191 1. He was 65 years of age.

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He married, March 14, 1868, Myra A., daughter of Rev.
Gilman and Clarissa M. (Osgood) Sanborn, of Gilman-
ton, N. H., and had three sons (B.A. 1896, Ph.B. 1898 and
1903, respectively) and two daughters. Mrs. Spalding
died in July, 1909.

1882

Alfred Warner Armstrong, son of Alfred Curtinius
Armstrong, who was engaged in the railway business, and
Mary Elizabeth (Warner) Armstrong, was born April 19,
1861, in Cleveland, Ohio. His college preparation was
gained in Brooks Academy in that city, and he then took
the course in Mechanical Engineering in the Sheffield
Scientific School.

After graduation he spent two years in graduate study
in Stevens Institute of Technology, and was then in the
employ of the Harlan & Hollingsworth Corporation, at Wil-
mington, Delaware, as a marine engineer, eight years.

In 1892 he removed to Altadena, California, a suburb
of Pasadena, where he had since been engaged in fruit
growing and the care of his father's estate. He was active
in civic and social life, and was a vestryman of All Saints'
(P. E.) Church in Pasadena.

Mr. Armstrong died of pneumonia at his home in Alta-
dena, July 15, 1910, at the age of 49 years.

He married in Wilmington, Delaware, April 11, 1888,
Effie Burton, daughter of Robert Burton and Cornelia How-
ard (Herse) Fulenwider of that city, and had three sons and
three daughters, of whom two sons and two daughters, with
Mrs. Armstrong, survive him. A brother graduated from
the Academical Department in 1889.

1883

George Andrew Barrows, son of Andrew R. and L.
Adelia (Pettingill) Barrows, was born May 8, 1863, in

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Boston, Mass., but he had removed to Philadelphia before
coming as a student to New Haven. After preparation at
the Eastburn Academy, Philadelphia, he took the Select
course in the Sheffield Scientific School.

On graduation from Yale he entered the Law Department
of the University of Pennsylvania, received the degree of
Bachelor of Laws from there in 1885, and during the next
three years practiced law in Chattanooga, Tenn. He was
also largely interested in real estate matters in that city,
but with the decline in prices in 1888 disaster overtook
him and many others, and he returned to Philadelphia, where
he took up the study of medicine in Hahnemann Medical
College, receiving from there the degree of Doctor of Medi-
cine in 1892. He practiced this profession in Philadelphia
until 1898, when he became surgeon on the ship City of
Columbia sailing from Seattle, Wash., to the Hawaiian
Islands. On the return voyage this ship was obliged to
put back, and reached Hilo just in time to avoid shipwreck.
In May, 1899, he went with a government expedition, under
Captain E. F. Glenn, to the Cook Inlet country, Alaska,
and the following November sailed for Nome as surgeon
on the Laurada. The ship sprang aleak in Bering Sea
and went to pieces on St. George Island, but all were rescued
by the revenue cutter Corwin. Dr. Barrows made several
summer trips to Nome as surgeon on the steamship Oregon.
For about ten years he had been a physician in Seattle,
where he died from angina pectoris, February 16, 1909, at
the age of 45 years.

He married, December 17, 1897, Mrs. Anna McMichael
Russell of Philadelphia, daughter of John and Jane
(Kenedy) McMichael.

1887

Oscar Harmon Short, son of Hon. John C. Short, who
was for many years a resident of Illinois, but later of New

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York, was born April 4, 1865. He took the Select course
in the Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he spent a few years with his classmate
Edward W. Durant in the woods of northwestern Wiscon-
sin, but the occupation not suiting his health, he was for
about two years with Armour & Co. in Chicago, 111., and
then entered business with his father in New York City
in the firm of John C. Short & Son, dealers in investment
securities.

Mr. Short died April 3, 191 1, at his home in Hackensack,
N. J., at the age of nearly 46 years. He was unmarried.

1889

Henry Hutchins Sykes, son of Henry Martyn and
Adelaide Maria (Hutchins) Sykes, was born in Suffield,
Conn., July 3, 1867. After preparation at Phillips Acad-
emy, Exeter, N. H., he took the course in Dynamics in
the Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he spent a year in the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and received there the degree of
Bachelor of Science in 1891. He then entered the employ
of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. in New
York City, remaining there until 1895, when he became
chief engineer at St. Louis of the Bell Telephone Co., of
Missouri. In 1902 he was appointed general superintend-
ent of the Southern New England Telephone Co., and
made general manager in January, 1907, with his office in
New Haven. Toward the end of that year he had a severe
illness from which he did not entirely recover, although he
continued to work until April, 191 1. He died of kidney
trouble with complications, May 18, at his home in West-
ville. He was 43 years of age, and not married.

Besides his parents a sister, who is the wife of Frank
Sherman Meara, Ph.D., M.D. (B.A. Yale 1890), survives
him.

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1890

Theodore Dudley Irwin, son of William P. Irwin,
a grain commission merchant of Albany, N. Y., was born
in that city at Greenbush Heights, July 11, 1870. His
mother was Anna (Teller) Irwin. He was prepared for
college at the Albany Academy, and took the Select course
in the Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he was for a time in the business of
wood turning and manufacturing in Albany, and later
became manager of the bond department of Post & Flagg,
bankers and brokers in New York City.

Since early in 1908 he had spent much of his time in
Colorado Springs fighting an incipient case of tuberculosis,
but died there of heart affection, August 17, 1910. He was
40 years of age.

Frank Aloysius Maloney, son of Francis and Margaret
Maloney, was born March 24, 1866 in New Haven, Conn.
After preparatory study m the High School he took the
course in Civil Engineering in the Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he was for three years with the New
York, New Haven & Hartf ord Railroad, and since then had
been assistant to the City Engineer of New Haven.

Mr. Maloney died at his home in New Haven, March 22,
191 1, after an illness of only twelve hours from pleuro-
pneumonia. He was nearly 45 years of age. A brother
graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1892.

Frank Russell Rich, son of Alfred Rich, a gunmaker,
and Elizabeth (Smith) Rich, was born April 12, 1869, in
Bridgeport, Conn.

After preparation in the New Haven High School, he
took the course in Civil Engineering in the Sheffield Scien-
tific School. In his Senior year he was awarded a prize
for excellence in German.

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For a year after graduation he was with the Berlin
Iron Bridge Co., at East Berlin, Conn. He then returned
to New Haven as a Graduate student, and from 1892 to
1894 was also an Assistant in German. In 1904 he went
to Germany, where he spent two years in study at the
Universities of Gottingen and Leipsic. During the three
years following he was studying and teaching in New
Haven, and was then assistant principal of the High School
in Bethel, Conn., two years. In the summer of 1903 fail-
ing health compelled him to give up this work, and he had
since lived with a sister in Bethel, where he devoted his
time to perfecting his knowledge of languages, and to
private tutoring. He died there of tuberculosis, July 26,
1910. He was 41 years of age, and was not married. He
was buried at Ridgefield, Conn.

1891

Thomas Osborn Horton, son of Henry Davids Horton,
a farmer, and Miriam Reeves (Osborn) Horton, was born
in Peconic, on Long Island, N. Y., June 2, 1870. After
preparation at Siglar's school, Newburgh, N. Y., he took
the Civil Engineering course in the Sheffield Scientific
School.

After graduation he held positions with the Atlas Iron
Construction Co. and the East River Gas Co., and since
1901 had been president and manager of the New York
& Richmond Gas Co., with residence in Stapleton, N. Y.

Mr. Horton had suffered from nervous prostration for
two or three years, and died at Pasadena, Cal., June 13,
1 910, at the age of 40 years. He was a member of the
Presbyterian Church.

He married, in New Haven, Conn., August 28, 1895,
Maude M., daughter of Albert and Alice (Negbaur) Kirs-
ten, and had one son. Mrs. Horton and the son survive
him.

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i893

John Williams Coe, son of John Walter Coe, a whole-
sale provision dealer of Meriden, Conn., was born in that
city June 19, 1872. His mother was Sarah (Williams)
Coe.

After preparation in the Meriden High School he took
the Biological course in the Sheffield Scientific School, where
he won a prize for excellence in chemistry in Freshman year.

During the year after graduation he continued his study
with Professor Chittenden and was also an Assistant in
Chemistry in the School. He afterward spent several
months in Germany doing special laboratory work in pathol-
ogy in the University of Greifswald. On his return he
entered the Johns Hopkins Medical School, received the
degree of Doctor of Medicine there in 1898, and then settled
in New York City, where, after service in the Presbyterian
Hospital he had since practiced his profession, making a
specialty of diseases of the skin and genito-urinary organs,
and gaining a reputation for scientific and successful work
in these lines. Since 1900 he had been an Assistant in
Clinical Medicine in Cornell Medical College.

Dr. Coe died of pneumonia at the Presbyterian Hospital
in New York City, March 6, 191 1. He was in his 39th
year. A memorial service was held in the chapel of the
Presbyterian Hospital, March 8, but the funeral and inter-
ment were in Meriden.

He married, December 25, 1901, Mary, daughter of
Joseph Clark, of Lexington, Ky., and had two daughters,
who with Mrs. Coe survive him. A brother, Walter E. Coe
(Ph.B. Yale 1892), is also living.

1897

Edward Fiske Ashley, son of Edward Leonard Ashley,
superintendent of the Scovill Manufacturing Co. of Water-
bury, Conn., was born in that city, January 4, 1876. His
mother was Sarah (Fiske) Ashley. After preparation in

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the Waterbury High School, he took the Biological course
in the Sheffield Scientific School.

On graduating from the latter he entered the Yale Medical
School, and received his medical degree in 1900. He was
then for a year house surgeon in the W. W. Backus Hos-
pital in Norwich, Conn., after which he practiced in Col-
chester for seven or eight months. From July, 1902, he
was resident physician at the New York City Hospital for
two years, and from November, 1904, to February, 1905,
held the same position in the Contagious Disease Hospital
on North Brothers Island, New York City. He engaged in
practice in Waterbury for four years, from May, 1905. In
1909 he was appointed resident physician in the Greenwich
(Conn.) Hospital. In May, 19 10, he went as bacteriologist
to New York City and had been assisting the health officer
of the port, studying the cases of Greek immigrants suffer-
ing with cerebro-spinal meningitis, and striving to prevent
the importation of the disease. While performing an
autopsy on one of the victims Dr. Ashley became infected
with the disease, dying at the Swinburne Island Hospital,
March 21, 191 1. He was 35 years of age, and unmarried.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Water-
bury.

1899

Julian Henry Goodman, son of Andrew Goodman, a
real estate dealer, and Lena (Freedman) Goodman, was
born October 16, 1880, in New Haven, Conn.

After preparation in the Hillhouse High School, he took
the Biological course in the Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he spent a year in graduate work in
physiological chemistry in the Sheffield Laboratory, and the
following year had charge of the pathological laboratories
of Reed & Carnick of Jersey City, in 1901 receiving the
degree of Master of Science from Yale. Early in 1892
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Paris, and at Yorkshire College, Victoria University, and
at Leeds, England. On his. return he was for three years
president of the Atlantic Chemical Co., and in 1908 became
president of the Goodman Chemical Co.

Mr. Goodman died of scarlet fever in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
March 27, 191 1, at the age of 30 years.

He married, November 12, 1907, in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Rosetta C, daughter of A. M. Stein, and had a son, who
with Mrs. Goodman survives him.

Charles Gardner Hart, son of Charles Remington Hart
(M.D. Columbia 1859), surgeon in the Tenth Regiment of
Connecticut Volunteers in the Civil War and a practicing
physician, was born March 26, 1878, in Easton, Conn. His
mother was Ella Jane, daughter of Rev. H. V. Gardner,
of Oneida and East Aurora, N. Y. He was prepared at
the Episcopal Academy, Cheshire, Conn., and took the
course in Mechanical Engineering in the Sheffield Scientific
School, entering as a resident of Bethel, Conn.

For two years after graduation he was with the Cross
& Spier Machine Co. of Waterbury, Conn., and during the
seven years following was connected with the Manhattan
Rubber Manufacturing Co. of Passaic, N. J. This position
he was obliged to relinquish in April, 1908, on account of a
nervous breakdown, and since then had resided in Durham,
Conn., where he died December 23, 1910, in the 33d year
of his age.

He married, October 8, 1902, at Durham, Conn., Grace
Roosevelt Fowler, daughter of William Worthington and
Gertrude Van Ness (Smith) Fowler. She survives him
with two daughters.

1903

Charles Earl Moore, son of Will Moore, a lawyer, and
Frances (Curtis) Moore, was born May 12, 1882, in
Chicago, 111.

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After preparation at Phillips (Andover) Academy he
took the Mechanical Engineering course in the Sheffield
Scientific School.

After graduation he worked for the American Telephone
& Telegraph Co. for about two years, and later was engaged
in the manufacture of jewelry in the firm of C. Moore & Co.
At the time of his death he was in the insurance business
in Chicago.

Mr. Moore died of acute Bright's disease at his home in
Chicago, June 11, 1910, at the age of 28 years. He was
a member of St. Paul's (P. E.) Church, Chicago.

He married in Chicago, January 2, 1907, Edna, daughter
of Gustave and Agnes (Cunningham) Bluhm, who survives
him with a son.

1905

Albert Harold Vernam, son of Albert Harold Vernam,
president of the First National Bank of Morristown, N. J.,
and Emeline (Goodwin) Vernam, was born in Elberon,
N. J., June 22, 1882. After preparation at St. Paul's
School, he entered the class of 1904 in the Sheffield Scien-
tific School, taking the Select course, and later joining 1905.

After graduation he was for two years cashier of his
father's banking firm of Albert H. Vernam & Co., and then
with the firm of A. G. Edwards & Sons of New York City.

Mr. Vernam died at his home in Morristown, N. J.,
February 11, 191 1, after an illness of several weeks from
blood poisoning. He was 28 years of age and not married.

1906

Burton Irving Drisko, son of Fred Herbert Drisko,
of the firm of O. H. Drisko & Son, builders, was born
February 20, 1885, in Boston, Mass. His mother was Eva
(Wass) Drisko. His preliminary study was in the Rox-
bury Latin School, and in the Sheffield Scientific School

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he took the Civil Engineering course, winning a prize in
French in Freshman year, Honors in German Junior year,
and General Honors Senior year.

After graduation he took a position with the W. F.
Kearns Construction Co., of Boston, but was obliged to
give it up after a few months and permanently withdraw
from active work on account of ill health. He spent the
winter of 1906-07 in southern California, returning home
in May, 1907, and from that time until December, 1909,
he was in Boston and the mountains of New Hampshire.
Soon after returning to his home in Roxbury, Mass., in
May, 1910, from a winter in Florida, a severe heart trouble
set in, from which he died January 8, 191 1. He was in
the 26th year of his age, and unmarried.

1907

Clifford Joseph Monahan, son of James D. Monahan,
who died in 1900, and of Ellen T. (McCarthy) Monahan,
was born August 26, 1884, in New Haven, Conn., and was
fitted for college in the High School. He was a member of
the class of 1906, taking Honors in chemistry in Junior year,
but at the beginning of Senior year he left on account of
illness, and graduated with the succeeding class.

For two years after graduation he continued the study
of chemistry in the Graduate School, but since 1909 has
been a chemist in the government laboratory of the Bureau
of Mines in Pittsburg, Pa.

He died at his home in New Haven, August 15, 1910,
in his 26th year.

1908

William Francis McKone, son of Christopher John
and Annie (Fagan) McKone, was born in Hartford, Conn.,
May 28, 1883. His father died in 1905. He was fitted
at the Hartford High School and Phillips (Exeter) Acad-

15° SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL

emy for the Sheffield Scientific School, where he took the
course in Electrical Engineering. He was for a short
time a member of the class of 1907.

Since October, 1909, he had been a student in the testing
department of the Stanley Electrical Works in Pittsfield,
Mass.

He was killed there September 23, 1910, by coming in
contact with a heavily charged electric wire. He was 27
years of age.

Ralph Holmes Stone, son of Andrew T. Stone, of the
McLanahan- Stone Machine Co., and Mary (Kean) Stone,
was born June 13, 1886, at Hollidaysburg, Pa. He was
prepared for college at the High School there and the
Lawrenceville (N. J.) School.

He took the Mechanical Engineering course in the Shef-
field Scientific School, entering with the class of 1907, but
severe illness made him stay out for a year.

After graduation he was engineer for the Joseph E.
Thropp Coal & Coke Co., at Everitt, Pa., till the fall of 1909,
when he resigned to become foreman of the Lucy Furnace
of the United States Steel Corporation at Carnegie, Pa.

He died of cerebral embolism at the Eye and Ear Hospital
of Pittsburg, February 22, 191 1, at the age of 22 years.
His marriage engagement to Miss Emma Cook of Port
Chester, N. Y., had been announced.

1909

Alonzo Nelson Dewey, son of William Childs Dewey,
a builder of Springfield, Mass., was born in that city
November 17, 1886. His mother was Ella (Flynt) Dewey.
He studied at the Springfield High School and at Phillips
(Andover) Academy before entering the Sheffield Scientific
School, where he was a member of the class of 1908 during
Freshman year. He then joined the class of 1909, and took
the course in Metallurgy.

1908-1910 151

After graduation he entered the mining business in the
West, and from there went to Alaska. In the fall of 1909,
while at Juneau he was taken ill, but after several weeks
in a hospital there returned to his home in Springfield.
He did not regain his health, but died at the German
Lutheran Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa., February 16, 191 1.
He was 24 years of age.

1910

Leon Jay Phillips, son of Ivory and Mary Louise
(Canfield) Phillips, was born December 22, 1887, in Colo-
rado Springs, Colo., but entered Yale from New Milford,
Conn., where he was a pupil in the High School.

In the Sheffield Scientific School he took the Electrical
Engineering course, and after graduation took a position
as special apprentice on the Pennsylvania Railroad. He
was studying the block system near Altoona, Pa., and step-
ping from one track to avoid a passing freight train directly
in front of an approaching express, was killed instantly,
September 16, 1910. He was in his 23d year and unmarried.

James Breden Stuart, son of James C. Stuart, of Stuart
& Co., general contractors, and Amelia (Breden) Stuart,
was born July 27, 1887, in St. Louis, Mo. After prepara-
tion at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., he took the
course in Civil Engineering in the Sheffield Scientific
School.

On graduation he was for a time in business with his
father, and then engaged in civil engineering. While sur-
veying in a wild section of Oswego County, N. Y., near
Syracuse, for hydro-electric works for his father's firm,
he was stricken with heart disease November 2.y, 1910,
and died before medical aid could reach him. He was
23 years of age.

I52 DIVINITY SCHOOL

YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL

1875

George Crawford Adams, son of Samuel and Mary
Brewer (Martin) Adams, was born March 7, 1850, at
Castine, Me. He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts
from Amherst College in 1871, and then taught in Meriden,
Conn., entering the Yale Theological Seminary in the fall
of 1872.

Soon after his graduation from the Seminary he went to
Illinois and was ordained as an evangelist at Hillsboro,
August 18, 1875. After two years of pastoral labor there
he served at Alton, 111., until April, 1881, then accepted a
call to St. Louis, Mo., where he remained fifteen years,
developing a down-town mission into a strong church, the
Fifth Congregational Church, which later removed to a
residential section and was called the Compton Hill Church.
He then accomplished a notable work as pastor of the First
Congregational Church in San Francisco, beginning in
December, 1896, and continuing to the close of his life.
He made a journey around the world in 1909.

He was moderator of the Missouri State Association in
1891, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Missouri
Home Missionary Society, and president of the California
Home Missionary Society. He was chosen a corporate
member of the American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions in 1897.

He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity
from Illinois College in 1888, and was trustee of that col-
lege from 1880 to 1890, also of Drury College and of
Pomona College, and of Pacific Theological Seminary.

Several of his writings were published, including "A
Christian Lawyer," "One Woman's Investments," and

i 875-1 88 1

i53

sermons at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Congrega-
tional Church in San Francisco, and before the American
Board in 1899.

Dr. Adams died of apoplexy in San Francisco, September
3, 1 9 10, at the age of 60 years.

He married in Jersey City, N. J., May 22, 1875, Mercy
P., daughter of Otis S. and Elizabeth (Perkins) Shepardson
of West Brooksville, Me., and had four sons and six
daughters. Three of the sons are deceased.

1881

John Richard Reitzel, was born in Hummelstown, Pa.,
October 16, 1847. He attended Lebanon Valley College,
and was a member of his class in the Yale Divinity School
only in Senior year.

He was ordained to the United Brethren ministry in
February, 1878, but entered the Congregational fellowship
in 1881. He was a home missionary in Dakota, and organ-
ized a church and was pastor at Mitchell, S. D., from 1881
to 1883, and then Superintendent of the Congregational
Publishing Society for Wisconsin two years. From 1886
to 1891 he was pastor at Blue Island, 111., and the next three
years at Owosso, Mich. In 1895 he engaged in travel and
lecturing, and resided in Chicago till 1900, after which he
was pastor at Oconomowoc, Wise, three years. From 1903
he was without charge, and from 1905 to 1909 made his
home at his earlier home of Blue Island. He died of
apoplexy at Sioux City, la., February 21, 1910, at the age
of 62 years.

He married, July 6, 1887, Mary Ann, daughter of John
and Martha (Strickler) Weiss, of Lebanon, Pa., who sur-
vives him.

154 DIVINITY SCHOOL

1888

Henry Harvey Morse, son of Francis B. and Alice N.
(Burnham) Morse, was born October 11, i860, in New
Haven, Conn.

He was fitted for college at the Watertown (Conn.) High
School, graduated from Amherst College in 1885, and then
entered the Yale Divinity School.

After his graduation from the Divinity School he was
pastor of the Congregational Church at Rockford, la., two
years, being ordained August 29, 1888, was then for about
five months at Omaha, Nebr., and from March, 1891 to
1906 was pastor of the First Congregational Church in Mil-
ford, Conn. After closing his work there he was called to
Calvary St. Church in Danbury, but since its union with the
First Congregational Church there, had been associate
pastor of the latter.

Mr. Morse died from heart disease at his home in Dan-
bury, March 12, 191 1. He was 50 years of age.

He married in New Haven, November 7, 1895, Alice
Gertrude, daughter of Ezra B. and Elizabeth Dibble, who
survives him with a daughter.

1893

Frank Butler Doane, son of James William and Ange-
line (Butler) Doane, was born September 12, 1865, at
Hawley, Mass. He graduated from Amherst College in
1890, and then entered the Yale Divinity School.

On receiving the degree of Bachelor of Divinity he
became acting pastor of the Congregational Church at
Bridgewater, Conn., where he was ordained to the ministry
June 14, 1893. While continuing there he took Graduate
studies in the Seminary in New Haven. In 1894 he settled
on the Pacific Coast, and was pastor of the Congregational
Church at Dayton, Wash., three years and at Cheney in the

1888-1893

i55

same state until 1901. For five years following he was
pastor of the Congregational Church in North Haven,
Conn., but resigned on account of failing health, and in
1907 went to California, making his home at Chino in San
Bernardino County, where he died of pulmonary tuber-
culosis, June 15, 1910. He was in the 45th year of his
age.

He married, October 3, 1894, Leigh J. Bemis, of Shrews-
bury, Mass.

sTjx/mu^Tinr

ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT

(Yale College)

Class

Name and Age

Place and

Time of Death

1839

Augustus G. Eliot, 89

Rostock, Germany

May 10,

11

1844

E. Porter Belden, 87

New York City

March 6,

11

1844

Augustus A. Coleman, 84

Birmingham, Ala.

June 6,

10

1844

Frederick A. Woodson, 86

Denver, Colo.

Aug. 12,

10

1846

Walter F. Atlee, 81

Philadelphia, Pa.

Aug. 18,

10

1846

Frederick J. Kingsbury, 87

Litchfield, Conn.

Sept. 30,

10

1849

Corydon C Merriman, 81

Sodus, N. Y.

June 4,

08

1850

John H. Brewer, 86

Oakland, Cal.

Feb. 12,

11

185 1

William B. Dana, 81

New York City

Oct. 10,

10

185 1

Bennett W. Morse, 81

Unadilla, N. Y.

Aug. 10,

10

1852

George E. Jackson, 82

St. Louis, Mo.

Oct. 2,

10

1853

Robert S. Young, 76

Natchez, Miss.

July 1,

09

1854

Thomas W. Catlin. 79

Deer Lodge, Mont.

Jan. 2,

11

1854

Charles C Palfrey, 78

New Orleans, La.

Dec. 10,

10

1854

Erskine N. White, 77

New York City

Feb. 13,

11

1855

Martin B. Ewing, 75

Cincinnati, 0.

May 24,

09

1855

George Pratt, 73

Monrovia, Cal.

March 19,

08

1855

William R. Woodbridge, 77

Cooperstown, N. Y.

March 28,

11

1856

Robert L. Brandon, 75

Arcole, Miss.

Jan. 31,

11

1856

James L. Whitney, 74

Cambridge, Mass.

Sept. 25,

10

1857

Jacob S. Burnet, 73

Watch Hill, R. I.

July 15,

10

1857

George W. Colles, 73

Brooklyn, N. Y.

Jan. 26,

11

1857

Alfred L. Edwards, 73

Athol, N. Y.

Feb. 23,

10

1857

Samuel M. Freeland, 79

Seattle, Wash.

March 13,

11

1857

Edson Rogers, 78

Cincinnatus, N. Y.

May 14,

11

1858

Electus A. Pratt, 74

Washington, D. C.

Oct. 23,

10

1859

Louis H. Bristol, 71

New Haven, Conn.

July 20,

10

1859

William H. Rice, 70

South Bethlehem, Pa

Jan. 10,

11

i860

William M. Bristoll, 70

Minneapolis, Minn.

June 6,

10

i860

Robert S. Davis, 72

Philadelphia, Pa.

March 17,

11

i860

Ephraim L. Holmes, 80

Downsville, N. Y.

June 5,

10

i860

Alba L. P. Loomis, 74

Randolph, Wise.

April 20,

11

l86l

James N. Hyde, 70

Prout's Neck, Me.

Sept. 6,

10

l86l

Samuel H. Lyman, 71

Nauheim, Germany

Aug. 9,

10

SUMMARY

1

S7

i86i

Heber S. Thompson, 70

PottSville, Pa.

March 9,

11

1862

James P. Brown, 69

Pittsburg, Pa.

Dec. 5,

10

1862

Walter L. McClintock, 69

Washington, D. C.

March 3,

11

1863

Henry F. Dimock, 69

New York City

April 10,

n

1863

Joseph Naphtaly, 67

San Francisco, Cal.

Aug. 29,

10

1863

John H. Peck, 72

Hartford, Conn.

May 10,

11

1864

Lewis Gregory, 68

Lincoln, Nebr.

Jan. 6,

11

1864

Henry M. Whitney, 68

New Haven, Conn.

March 26,

11

1866

Henry B. Barnes, 65

New York City

Jan. 12,

11

1866

James H. Cornwall, 65

Daytona, Fla.

Dec. 29,

10

1866

Eugene Kingman, 67

Providence, R. I.

Feb. 26,

11

1866

William E. Wheeler, 67

Portville, N. Y.

April 28,

11

1866

George W. Young, 66

Elkton, Md.

March 18,

11

1867

Charles K. Cannon, 62

Morris Plains, N. J.

May 29,

09

1867

Morton Dexter, 64

Edgartown, Mass.

Oct. 29,

10

1867

Charles S. Elliot, 63

Cooperstown, N. Y.

Sept. 30,

10

1867

Francis H. Wilson, 67

Brooklyn, N. Y.

Sept. 25,

10

1868

George H. Cowell, 70

Waterbury, Conn.

Aug. 10,

10

1868

John K. H. DeForest, 65

Sendai, Japan

May 8,

11

1868

Donald MacGregor, 62

Watervliet, N. Y.

May 11,

10

1868

William R. Shelton, 65

Bridgeport, Conn.

Jan. 13,

11

1868

Samuel Tweedy, 64

South Norwalk, Conr

1. Oct. 6,

10

1869

Samuel D. Gilbert, 62

At sea

Sept. 27,

'io

1869

William P. Watson, 62

Seattle, Wash.

Dec. 20,

10

1869

Theodore F. Welch, 64

Pasadena, Cal.

April 14,

11

1870

Arthur P. Crane, 64

Toledo, 0.

April 28,

n

1870

Daniel J. Griffith, 60

Saratoga Springs, N. Y. July 2,

oq

1870

Sands F. Randall, 65

New London, Conn.

May 15,

II

1871

Henry Baldwin, 64

New York City

May 30,

11

187 1

Albert Seessel, 60

New York City

Dec. 24,

10

1872

George R. Milburn, 59

Helena, Mont.

June 24,

10

1872

Samuel W. Weiss, 58

New York City

Nov. 20,

10

1873

Andrew J. Reynolds, 66

Boulder, Colo.

Aug. 25,

10

1875

Alfred E. Okey, 61

Lincoln, Nebr.

June 19,

10

1876

Frank Chamberlin, 57

Philadelphia, Pa.

Oct. 31,

10

1876

James B. Dill, 56

East Orange, N. J.

Dec. 2,

10

1877

John F. Keator, 60 Newton Highlands, Mass.

Nov. 17,

10

1878

Henry M. Hoyt, 53

Washington, D. C.

Nov. 20,

10

1878

Laurence H. Schwab, 54

Sharon, Conn.

May 28,

II

1878

Edward B. Whitney, 53

Cornwall, Conn.

Jan. S,

11

1879

Lloyd W. Bowers, 51

Boston, Mass.

Sept. 9,

10

1879

John W. Curtiss, 54

New York City

Feb. 10, '

II

1879

Adrian S. Polhemus, 54

Portland, Ore.

Oct. 27, '

10

*5«

YALE

COLLEGE

1879

Louis L. Stanton, 51 *

New York City

May 11,'

1880

William G. Daggett, 50

New Haven, Conn.

Sept. 18, '

1882

Alfred B. Kittredge, 50

Hot Springs, Ark.

May 4, '

1882

Charles H. Lewis, 54

New York City

March 31, '

1882

Frank E. Page, 49

Chicago, 111.

May 25, '(

1884

John 0. McCalmont, 46

Franklin, Pa.

Nov. 3, '

1884

Henry W. Prouty, 52

Chicago, 111.

Jan. 23, '

1885

Charles S. Wiley, 48

Jervis Inlet, B. C.

July il '

1886

Frederick W. Moore, 47

Denver, Colo.

April 23, '

1888

William Loving, 42

Boston, Mass.

June 21, '

1889

Horace B. Bartholomew, 44

Minersville, Pa.

Oct. 24, '

1889

Arthur E. Jenks, 47

New York City

April 24, '

1889

George L. Lamphier, 44

Goshen, Conn.

March 19, '

1889

John Underhill, 43

Warsaw, N. Y.

May 18, '

1891

Frank S. Blair, 42

Angelica, N. Y.

Aug. 22, '

1891

Francis deL. Hyde, 41

North Plainfield, N. J

Sept. 8, '

1892

Knight D. Cheney, 40

S. Manchester, Conn.

Aug. 17, '

1894

Edward H. Lay, 44

Chicago, 111.

Dec. 16, '

1894

Albert T. Ryan, 37

Wallace, Idaho

Sept. 13, '

1895

Franklin L. Lee, 36

New York City

May 18, '

1896

Theodore Carleton, 37

Haverhill, Mass.

Sept. 16, '

1897

Norman A. Williams, 37

Clayville, N. Y.

Nov. 4, '

1898

Luther G. Billings, 33

New York City

May 9, '

1898

George A. Mullen, 36

Bridgeport, Conn.

Aug. 15, '

1899

Howard Piatt, 34

Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Jan. 4, '

1901

F. Gordon Brown, 31

Glen Head, L. I., N. Y

. May 10, '

1903

Warren M. Steele, 35

Salida, Colo.

Aug. 19, '

1903

Raymond W. Walker, 33

Roxbury, Mass.

Feb. 12, '

1906

Ben O. Brown, 25

Seattle, Wash.

June 13, '

1906

John E. Copps, 25

Rutland, Vt.

Oct. 18, '

1906

Stanley N. Jameson, 31

St. Petersburg, Fla.

March 4, '

1906

Witter L. Johnston, 28

Montclair, N. J.

July 29, '

1906

John Warner, 26

Wilmington, Del.

May 29, '

1907

Douglas J. A. Bell, 25

Detroit, Mich.

Sept. 4, '

1909

Denton Fowler, 25

Hudson, N. Y.

Sept. 3, '

1909

Morton Weeks, 24

Brookline, Mass.

March 27, '

SUMMARY

*59

YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL

1853 William T. Booth, 79

1853 Paul C. Skiff, 81

1878 John P. Henriques, 53

1891 James H. Mclnerny, 41

1896 Larmon W. Abbott, 35

Englewood, N. J.
Kent, Conn.
Edgewood, R. I.
Mount Vernon, N.
Bridgeport, Conn.

March 21/11
Aug. 26/10
June 6, '10
Sept. 5, '10
Feb. 26, '09
Feb. ii.'ii

1897 P. Duncan Littlejohn, 36 New Haven, Conn.

1906 Isaiah H. Halladjian, 31 North Reading, Mass. July 30, '10

YALE LAW SCHOOL

1862

Charles P. Whittemore, 70

Mount Vernon, la.

March 12,

'11

1866

Chester D. Cleveland, 70

Oshkosh, Wise.

June 7,

'10

1870

Charles K. Bush, 64

West Haven, Conn.

Sept. 15,

'10

1876

William C. Anderson, 58

Wilkinsburg, Pa.

Nov. 25,

'io

1877

Leverett C. Hinman, 51

Meriden, Conn.

Dec. 15,

'07

1880

James E. Walsh, 53

Danbury, Conn.

Dec. 26,

'io

1887

Shunzo Sawada, 49

Tokyo, Japan

May 15,

'09

1892

John J. Healey, 38

Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Nov. 11,

'10

1804

Timothy F. Callahan, 60

New Haven, Conn.

Oct. 19,

'io

1895

William H. Cox, 35

Beaver Falls, Pa.

July 3,

'09

1908

William M. Aiken, 29 Ir

l the mountains, Mont.

Oct. 2 or 3,

'io

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL

1852

William H. Brewer, 82

New Haven, Conn.

Nov. 2,

'iO

1856

Nathan S. Bronson, J2>

New Haven, Conn.

May 1,

'II

1867

William H. Niles, 72

Boston, Mass.

Sept. 13,

'10

1868

Joseph S. McKell, 64

Chillicothe, O.

Sept. 29,

'10

1869

Horace F. Whitman, 62

Philadelphia, Pa.

Jan. 9,

'II

187 1

Edwin F. Bacon, 78

Oneonta, N. Y.

Dec. 17,

'10

1875

John G. Bramley, 62

Otisville, N. Y.

Sept. 15,

'10

1876

James L. Houghteling, 54

Winnetka, 111.

July 28,

'10

1881

Warren A. Spalding, 65

New Haven, Conn.

April 16,

'11

1882

Alfred W. Armstrong, 49

Altadena, Cal.

July 15,

'10

1883

George A. Barrows, 45

Seattle, Wash.

Feb. 16,

'09

1887

Oscar H. Short, 46

Hackensack, N. J.

April 3,

'II

1889

Henry H. Sykes, 43

Westville, Conn.

May 18,

'11

1890

Theodore D. Irwin, 40

Colorado Springs, Colo.

Aug. 17.

'10

1890

Frank A. Maloney, 45

New Haven. Conn.

March 22,

'II

1890

Frank R. Rich, 41

Bethel, Conn.

July 26,

'10

1891

Thomas 0. Horton, 40

Pasadena, Cal.

June 13,

'10

i6o

YALE COLLEGE

1893 John W. Coe, 38

1897 Edward F. Ashley, 35

1899 Julian H. Goodman, 30

1899 Charles G. Hart, 32

1903 Charles E. Moore, 28

1905 Albert H. Vernam, 28

1906 Burton I. Drisko, 25

1907 Clifford J. Monahan, 26
1008 William F. McKone, 27

1908 Ralph H. Stone, 22

1909 Alonzo N. Dewey, 24

1910 Leon J. Phillips, 22
1910 Tames B. Stuart, 23

New York City
New York City
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Durham, Conn.
Chicago, 111.
Morristown, N. J.
Roxbury, Mass.
New Haven, Conn.
Pittsfield, Mass.
Pittsburg, Pa.
Philadelphia, Pa.
near Altoona, Pa.
near Syracuse, N. ^

March '6, 'u

March 21, '11

March 27, 'i 1

Dec. 23, '10

June 11, '10

Feb. 11, 'i 1

Jan. 8, 'i 1

Aug. 15, '10

Sept. 23, '10

Feb. 22, '11

Feb. 16, '11

Sept. 16, '10

Nov. 27, '10

YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL

1875 George C. Adams, 60

1881 John R. Reitzel, 62

1888 Henry H. Morse, 50

1893 Frank B. Doane, 44

San Francisco, Cal.
Sioux City, la.
Danbury, Conn.
Chino, Cal.

Sept. 3, '10

Feb. 21, 'io

March 12, 'n

June 15, '10

The number of deaths recorded this year is 165 and the average
age of the 113 graduates of the Academical Department is about
59/^ years.

The oldest living graduate of the Academical Department is :
Class of 1838, Henry Parsons Hedges, of Bridgehampton, N. Y.,
born October 13, 1817.

The oldest living graduate of the Medical Denartment is :
Class of 1842, David Fisher Atwater, of Springfield, Mass., born
October 29, 1817. He is also a graduate of the Academical Depart-
ment in the Class of 1839.

IKTIDEX

Members of the Divinity, Law, Medical, and

Scientific

Schools are indicated by the letters

d, /, M

, and s

respectively.

Class

Page

Class

Page

1896 m

Abbott, Larmon W.

120

1895/

Cox, William H.

128

I875C?

Adams, George C.

152

187O

Crane, Arthur P.

71

1908/

Aiken, William M.

128

1879

Curtiss, John W.

88

1876/

Anderson, William C.

124

1882 s

Armstrong, Alfred W.

140

1880

Daggett, William G.

, 91

1897 s

Ashley, Edward F.

145

I85I

Dana, William B.

12

1846

Atlee, Walter F.

8

i860

Davis, Robert S.

35

1868

DeForest, John K. H.

64

1871 s

Bacon, Edwin F.

136

1909 S

Dewey, Alonzo N.

150

187 1

Baldwin, Henry

72

1867

Dexter, Morton

57

1866

Barnes, Henry B.

52

1876

Dill, James B.

78

1883 ^

Barrows, George A.

140

1863

Dimock, Henry F.

45

1889

Bartholomew, Horace B.

99

1893 d

Doane, Frank B.

154

1844

Belden, E. Porter

4

1906 s

Drisko, Burton I.

148

1907

Bell, Douglas J. A.

114

1898

Billings, Luther G.

108

1857

Edwards, Alfred L.

27

1891

Blair, Frank S.

101

1839

Eliot, Augustus G.

3

1853 m

Booth, William T.

118

1867

Elliot, Charles S.

59

1879

Bowers, Lloyd W.

86

1855

Ewing, Martin B.

19

1875*

Bramley, John G.

137

1856

Brandon, Robert L.

23

1909

Fowler, Denton

115

1850

Brewer, John H.

11

1857

Freeland, Samuel M.

28

1852*
1859

Brewer, William H.
Bristol, Louis H.

130
30

1869

Gilbert, Samuel D.

68

i860

Bristoll, William M.

33

1899

Goodman, Julian H.

146

1856*

Bronson, Nathan S.

133

1864

Gregory, Lewis

48

1906

Brown, Ben 0.

112

1870

Griffith, Daniel J.

7i

1901
1862

1857
1870/

Brown, F. Gordon
Brown, James P.
Burnet, Jacob S.
Bush, Charles K.

no

43

26

123

1906 m
1899 s

1892/

1878 m

Halladjian, Isaiah H.
Hart, Charles G.
Healey, John J.
Henriques, John P.

121

147
127
119

1894/
1867
1896
1854

Callahan, Timothy F.
Cannon, Charles K.
Carleton, Theodore
Catlin, Thomas W.

127

57

106

16

1877/
i860
iSgis
1876 s

Hinman, Leverett C.
Holmes, Ephraim L.
Horton, Thomas O.
Houghteling, James L.

125

36

144

138

OM\> On-

Chamberlin, Frank
Cheney, Knight D.
Cleveland, Chester D.

77
103
122

1878
1891
1861

Hoyt, Henry M.
Hyde, Francis deL.
Hyde, James N.

81
102

38

1893 s

1844

Coe, John W.
Coleman, Augustus A.

145

5

1890.?

Irwin, Theodore D.

143

1857

Colles, George W.

26

1852

Jackson, George E.

14

1906

Copps, John E.

113

1906

Jameson, Stanley N.

113

1866

Cornwall, James H.

53

1889

Jenks, Arthur E.

100

1868

Cowell, George H.

62

1906

Johnston, Witter L.

114

l62

INDEX

Class Page

1877 Keator, John F. 80

1866 Kingman, Eugene 54
1846 Kingsbury, Frederick J. 8
1882 Kittredge, Alfred B. 93

1889 Lamphier, George L. 101

1894 Lay, Edward H. 103

1895 Lee, Franklin L. 105
1882 Lewis, Charles H. 93

1897 m Littlejohn, P. Duncan 121
i860 Loomis, Alba L. P. 37
1888 Loving, William 99

1861 Lyman, Samuel H. 40

1884 McCalmont, John O. 95

1862 McClintock, Walter L. 44
1868 MacGregor, Donald 66
1891 m Mclnerny, James H. 120
1868 ^ McKell, Joseph S. 135
1008 s McKone, William F. 149

1890 s Maloney, Frank A. 143
1849 Merriman, Corydon C. 11

1872 Milburn, George R. 74
1907 s Monahan, Clifford J. 149
1903 s Moore, Charles E. 147
1886 Moore, Frederick W. 97
1851 Morse, Bennett W. 13
1888 d Morse, Henry H. 154

1898 Mullen, George A. 109

1863 Naphtaly, Joseph 46

1867 j Niles, William H. 134

1875 Okey, Alfred E. 77

1882 Page, Frank E. 94

1854 Palfrey, Charles C. 17
1863 Peck, John H. 47
1910^ Phillips, Leon J. 151

1899 Piatt, Howard 109
1879 Polhemus, Adrian S. 89
1858 Pratt, Electus A. 29

1855 Pratt, George 20
1884 Prouty, Henry W. 95

1870 Randall, Sands F. 72

i88id Reitzel, John R. 153

1873 Reynolds, Andrew J. 76

Class

Page

1859

Rice, William H.

32

1890 J

Rich, Frank R.

143

1857

Rogers, Edson

29

1894

Ryan, Albert T.

104

1887/

Sawada, Shunzo

126

1878

Schwab, Laurence H.

83

1871

Seessel, Albert

73

1868

Shelton, William R.

67

1887 J

Short, Oscar H.

141

18^3 m

Skiff, Paul C.

118

1881 j

Spalding, Warren A.

139

1879

Stanton, Louis L.

00

1903

Steele, Warren M.

in

1908 .y

Stone, Ralph H.

150

1910

Stuart, James B.

151

1889*

Sykes, Henry H.

142

1861

Thompson, Heber S.

40

1868

Tweedy, Samuel

67

1889

Underhill, John

116

1905^

Vernam, Albert H.

148

1003

Walker, Raymond W.

112

1880/

Walsh, James E.

125

1906

Warner, John

114

1869

Watson, William P.

69

1009

Weeks, Morton

116

1872

Weiss, Samuel W.

75

1869

Welch, Theodore F.

70

1866

Wheeler, William E.

55

1854

White, Erskine N.

18

1869^

Whitman, Horace F.

136

1878

Whitney, Edward B.

84

1864

Whitney, Henry M.

50

1856

Whitney, James L.

^3

1862/

Whittemore, Charles P.

122

1885

Wiley, Charles S.

96

1897

Williams, Norman A.

107

1867

Wilson, Francis H.

61

i855

Woodbridge, William R.

21

1844

Woodson, Frederick A.

7

1866

Young, George W.

56

1853

Young, Robert S.

15

OBITUARY RECORD

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Deceased dating the year ending

JUNE 1, 1912,

INCLUDING THE RECORD OF A FEW WHO DIED PREVIOUSLY
HITHERTO UNREPORTED

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Deceased during the year ending
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Including the Record of a few who died previously, hitherto unreported

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The present Series will consist of five numbers.]

YALE COLLEGE
(academical department)

1838

Henry Parsons Hedges, third of four sons and fourth
of the six children of Zephaniah and Phebe P. (Osborn)
Hedges, was born at Wainscott in East Hampton, Long
Island, N. Y., October 13, 1817. His grandfather, Deacon
David Hedges, was a member of the Colonial Congress at
Kingston, N. Y., and a member of the Constitutional Con-
vention of the State of New York which ratified the
constitution of the United States.

Since the death of his classmate, Chester Dutton, July 1,
1909, he had been the oldest living graduate of the
University. He was the last survivor of his class.

He attended the Yale Commencement exercises in 1910,
and made an address at the Alumni Meeting, and was also
an honored guest in 191 1.

He was fitted for college at Clinton Academy, East
Hampton, and entered his class in college Sophomore year.

After graduation he spent a year at home and a year
in the Yale Law School, and then continued his law studies

I 66 YALE COLLEGE

with Hon. David L. Seymour (B.A. Yale 1826) of Troy,
N. Y., Judge George Miller of Riverhead, N. Y., and J. C.
Albertson of New York City. In the spring of 1843, a
year after his admission to the bar, he went to Ohio with
the idea of settling there, but returned to Long Island, and
in September, 1843, opened an office at Sag Harbor, prac-
ticing there until 1893. In March, 1854, he removed to
Bridgehampton, where he also had an office. He was exec-
utor of many estates and the owner of a large farm and
other valuable land. From 1869 to 1899 he was president
of the Sag Harbor Savings Bank.

From 1 86 1 to 1866 he was district attorney of Suffolk
County, and from the latter date to 1870 and from 1874 to
1880 county judge and surrogate. In 1852 he was elected
to the New York Assembly on the Whig ticket and in 1856
was active in the formation of the Republican party.

Judge Hedges was an authority on the history of eastern
Long Island, where his ancestors had lived since its first
settlement. In his 80th year he published a History of the
Town of East Hampton which includes beside the chapters
specially written for it the Introductions he wrote (1887-89)
for the four published volumes of the Town Records and
his Address at the Bicentennial Anniversary in 1849. He
gave the Centennial and Historical Address at Bridgehamp-
ton, July 4, 1876, the Bicentennial Address at the Bridge-
hampton Presbyterian Church in 1886, and an address at
the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Village
and Town of Southampton (1890), which were printed,
and with others edited the Records of the Town of
Southampton.

He united with the Presbyterian Church in 1840, and
since 1847 had been an elder in Sag Harbor or in
Bridgehampton.

Judge Hedges died in sleep at his home in Bridge-
hampton, September 26, 191 1, at the age of nearly 94
years.

1838-1841 167

He married at East Hampton, May 9, 1843, Gloriana,
daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann (Smith) Osborn, who
died in 1891. Of their three sons, the eldest and the
youngest (B.A. Yale 1874) are living, but the second son
(B.A. Yale 1869) died in 1881. In February, 1892, Judge
Hedges married Mary G., daughter of Matthew and
Hannah (Topping) Hildreth, who survives him.

1841

Thomas Coffin Yarnall, son of Benjamin Hornor and
Elizabeth (Coffin) Yarnall, was born December 10, 181 5, in
Philadelphia, Pa. His father was a native of Philadelphia
and his mother of Nantucket, both of Quaker stock. In
Senior year he was one of the editors of the Yale Liter-
ary Magazine. His brother William graduated from
Haver ford College in 1837.

After graduation he entered the Middle class in the
General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in New York City and studied there two years. He
was ordained Deacon July 9, 1843, m Christ Church, Phila-
delphia, and was in charge of Christ Church, Williamsport,
Pa., six months. The following April he was chosen rector
of St. Mary's Church, then in Hamilton Village, a suburb
of West Philadelphia, but now within the city of Philadel-
phia. With this parish he remained the rest of his long
life. May 19, 1844 he was ordained Priest by Bishop
Onderdonk. A new edifice was built on the site of the
early one in 1873, and this was later enlarged. Upon
the fiftieth anniversary of his rectorship in 1894, his parish-
ioners placed in the church a handsome stone and brass
pulpit in commemoration of his unusual service. In 1898
he became rector emeritus. In 1881 he made a trip to
Europe, and in 1891, at the age of 75, enjoyed a journey
to Alaska. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of
Divinity from the University of Pennsylvania in 1868.

I 68 YALE COLLEGE

He married July 9, 1846, Sarah Price Rose, daughter of
John S. Rose, M.D., of Philadelphia. Their golden wed-
ding anniversary was appropriately observed in 1896. His
parents and three others among his near kindred have also
celebrated fifty years of married life.

Dr. Yarnall died November 28, 191 1, at the rectory in
Philadelphia, the life use of which had been granted him
by the vestry. He had enjoyed remarkably good health
until early in 1909, when he suffered an attack of
pneumonia. He was in the 96th year of his age. He was
buried in Woodlands Cemetery. Mrs. Yarnall died in
June, 1904, but their six sons and three daughters all sur-
vive him. The sons George H. and Francis are rectors of
Protestant Episcopal Churches, and one daughter is the
wife of Rev. James B. Halsey (B.A. Univ. of Pa. 1886). A
grandson, Robert B. Luchars, received the degree of
Bachelor of Arts at Yale in 191 1.

The actual age of Dr. Yarnall was nearly two years
greater than that of either Judge Hedges of the class of
1838 or Dr. Atwater of 1839.

1843

William Wallace Atterbury, son of Lewis and Cath-
erine (Boudinot) Atterbury, was born August 4, 1823, in
Newark, N. J., but entered college from New York City.

The year after his college graduation he was a resident
graduate student, and the following year entered the
Divinity School, completing his course there in 1847. He
then supplied the Congregational Church in Detroit, Mich.,
a year. October 13, 1848, he was ordained as an evangel-
ist in New York City, and until May, 1854, labored under
a commission of the American Home Missionary Society in
Lansing, Mich., which had then just been settled, and organ-
ized a Presbyterian Church there. He was also chaplain
of the State Legislature. In November, 1854, he was

1841-1843 169

installed pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Madi-
son, Ind., and continued in that relation until 1865, then
spent more than a year in travel in Europe and the East.
He preached for a year in the First Presbyterian Church in
Cleveland, Ohio, during the absence of the pastor.

In 1869 he succeeded Rev. Dr. Philip Schafr as secretary
of the New York Sabbath Committee, and since then had
devoted himself to preaching, lecturing, and writing for that
work. He organized and conducted the Sunday Rest Con-
gress at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893,
and edited its principal papers in a volume, "The Sunday
Problem." As agent of the committee he was active in
securing the enforcement of existing laws for guarding
Sunday rest. He retired from the work in 1898, but con-
tinued to reside in New York City. While spending the
summer in Bennington, Vt, he died of heart failure,
August 6, 191 1, at the age of 88 years. He was buried
in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York.

He received the degree of Master of Arts in course from
Yale in 1846, and of Doctor of Divinity from New York
University in 1888. He was never married. A brother
graduated from Yale College in 1831, and another brother
from New York University in 1844. William W.
Atterbury (Ph.B. Yale 1886) is a nephew and namesake.

George Appleton Meech was born in Norwich, Conn.,
January 19, 1824, the son of Appleton Meech, captain of
a vessel engaged in the East India trade, and Sibyl
(Brewster) Meech.

After graduation he taught in Bozrah, Conn., a few
months, and was then principal of the Norwich Academy
for a year, but in 1845 on account of ill health went South
and taught in Demopolis, Ala., till September, 1847. WThile
teaching in Norwich he began the study of law with Hon.
LaFayette S. Foster and Frank Lyon, continued it in the

I 7° YALE COLLEGE

South with Mr. Manning of Demopolis, and still further
in the offices of Hubbard & Watts and Robert Rantoul of
Boston. In the fall of 1848 he was admitted to practice in
Connecticut, and the following year was appointed justice
of the peace in Norwich. In 1853 ne was elected judge
of probate of the Norwich district, but late in that year
resigned the office on account of his wife's health, and
removed to Chicago, where he soon formed a partnership
with Joseph A. Barker. During the cholera epidemic of
1859 he was president of the Howard Association. In
1862 he was elected city attorney, then served two years as
assessor of the south side, and from 1864 to 1875 devoted
his time wholly to his profession, having a large practice.
In 1875 he was appointed justice of the peace of Cook
County, and filled that office twelve years.

He was a personal and political friend of Hon. Carter H.
Harrison (B.A. Yale 1845), and with him was one of the
founders of the Chicago Yale Association, of the first
executive committee of which he was a member and its
chairman 1866-68.

Mr. Meech died at his home in Morgan Park, 111.,
October 24, 191 1. He was 87 years of age.

He married April 22, 1850, Sarah H., daughter of Rev.
Daniel Dorchester of Norwich, Conn. She died in Febru-
ary, 1859, and in October, i860, he married Celia Addie,
daughter of Hon. Milo Hunt of Chenango County, N. Y.,
whose death occurred in 1878. October 2J, 1880, he mar-
ried Florence W., daughter of Captain William Story of
Norwich, Conn. She survives him with a son.

1847

Joseph Steele, son of Frederick and Susan Durgin
(Green) Steele, was born December 14, 1824, at Kings-
boro,.now a part of Gloversville, Fulton County, N. Y. He
was prepared for college at Kingsboro Academy, and after

1843-1847 i7i

two years in Middlebury College entered Yale in Junior
year.

After graduation he began the study of medicine, but on
the death of his father gave it up and engaged in farming
in Gloversville, N. Y.

He died after more than a year of failing health at his
home in Gloversville, January 26, 19 12, at the age of 87
years. He was for seventy years a member of the Presby-
terian Church in Kingsboro, of which he had been elder
and trustee.

He married, July 26, 1849, Margaret Terhune, daughter
of Rev. Halsey Augustus Wood (B.A. Union 1812), a
graduate in 181 5 of the first class at Princeton Theological
Seminary, and Charlotte (Sears) Wood. They had two
sons and three daughters. One of the sons is deceased.

"Nathaniel Macon Trezevant, son of James Trezevant,
a representative in Congress from 1825 to 183 1, was born
July 31, 1827, in Southampton County, Va., but in 1832
removed with the family to Fayette County, Tenn. and soon
afterward settled in Memphis, which was his home for
most of his life.

Before he came to college his father had died, and after
graduation he gave his attention to the family property
near Memphis, which later increased greatly in value, and
to their cotton lands in Mississippi and Arkansas. He took
no active part in the Civil War and much of the time his
health was not good. For some time after 1880 he lived
mainly in California.

He died of old age in Memphis, October 17, 191 1, at the
age of 84 years.

He married in Memphis, in November, 1848, Amanda
Avery. Mrs. Trezevant and a daughter survive him. The
latter is the wife of William Armistead Collier, a lawyer
of Memphis.

I72 YALE COLLEGE

1848

Ebenezer Buckingham, son of Ebenezer and Eunice
(Hale) Buckingham, was born January 16, 1829, at Put-
nam, now a part of Zanesville, O. His father, a descendant
in the fourth generation of the Rev. Thomas Buckingham
of Saybrook who was one of the founders of Yale College,
was born near Ballston, N. Y., emigrated to Ohio about
1797, and became influential in many lines in the develop-
ment of the state, dying in 1832. The son was prepared
for college by a private tutor in Louisville, Ky.

After graduation he entered the banking office of his
uncle, but in 1852 went into business with a firm in New
York City. In 1857 the firm failed, and in 1859 he
returned to Chicago and was with Sturges, Buckingham &
Co. until 1866, when he and his brother John formed a
partnership, succeeding the earlier firm, and bought the ele-
vators owned by the Illinois Central Railroad. The great
fire of 187 1 burned one of his elevators, and swept away his
residence with all its contents. After the death of his
brother in 1881 he continued in the grain storage business
with his son till 1891. In 1883 he was elected president of
the Traders Insurance Co., and in 1890 succeeded his
brother-in-law, George Sturges, as president of the North-
western National Bank, both in Chicago. He had been
interested in this bank since its organization in 1864, and
retained the presidency of it until its merger with the
Corn Exchange Bank.

He united with the Presbyterian Church in Zanesville
in 185 1, and since going to Chicago had been a member of
the First Presbyterian Church there.

Mr. Buckingham died at his home in Chicago, February
25, 1912. He was 83 years of age.

He married at Zanesville, O., May 5, 1853, Lucy, daugh-
ter of Solomon and Lucy (Hale) Sturges. She died in
1889, but a son and two daughters survive him. A sister
married Rev. George Beecher (B.A. Yale 1828), son of

1848-1849 173

Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher. Another sister was the mother
of Ebenezer Buckingham Convers (B.A. Yale 1861).

Franklin Richard Grist, only son of Richard Grist, a
merchant of Washington, N. C, and Eliza Heritage (Wash-
ington) Grist, was born at Egypt plantation near Newbern,
in Craven County, N. C, September 22, 1828. His mother
afterward married Dr. Reuben Knox. He was prepared
for college at Bingham's School at Hillsboro, N. C, and
during his college course his home was St. Louis, Mo.
He was Class Poet at graduation.

After graduation he was attached as draftsman to the
United States Exploring Expedition across the plains under
Lieutenant Howard Stansbury in 1849, and remained in
California till the following year, when he returned East
and for about four years was clerk in the United States
Bureau of Construction and Repairs of the Treasury
Department at Washington, D. C. In 1855 he went to
Europe, and remained there thirty-five years, traveling
extensively and gaining high repute as a critic of art. He
lived in Paris fifteen years, and during the last days of the
Commune was arrested as a German spy, but proved his
American citizenship. For twenty years following he was
in Florence, Rome, and Venice, being United States vice-
consul in Venice from 1885 to 1890.

He returned to his native state in 1890, and had since
resided in Raleigh, where he died of heart disease at the
home of his brother, Dr. Augustus W. Knox (M.D. N. Y.
Univ. 1874), February 25, 191 2, at the age of 83 years.
He was never married.

1849

Henry Laurens Metcalfe, son of James Metcalfe, a
physician and planter, and Sarah (Baker) Metcalfe, was
born September 21, 1829, at Kilmarnock Plantation, near

174 YALE COLLEGE

Natchez, Miss. He joined the class at the beginning of
Junior year from Jefferson College, near Natchez.

After graduation he studied law for about three months,
and then medicine in New Orleans during the early months
of 1850, and from September, 1850, to January, 1852, in
New York City, but owing to ill health gave up a pro-
fessional career, and became a planter in his native place.

During the Civil War he served four years in the Con-
federate Army. For a time after 1884 he was in mercantile
business. He died at his home in Natchez, April 3, 191 2, at
the age of 82 years. He was a member of the Protestanc
Episcopal Church.

He married at Woodland Plantation near Natchez, Sep-
tember 7, 1852, Eliza Caroline, daughter of Abram and
Eliza (Baker) Kinsey, and had nine sons and four daugh-
ters, of whom three sons and one daughter are living. The
eldest son graduated from the University of Louisiana in
1878. Mrs. Metcalfe died January 22, 1891.

1850

William Ludden, son of Benjamin and Hope (Miller)
Ludden, was born in Williamsburg, Mass., May 19, 1823.
When he was twelve years old his father died, and he
remained on the farm for several years.

After graduation he taught music and studied in the
Yale Medical School two years, in the summer of 1852
went abroad and continued the study of both branches in
Paris, and then spent six months in European travel.
Returning to this country after an absence of a year he
took up his life work as a teacher and writer of music,
and maker of musical instruments in Cincinnati, O., living
there most of the time till i860, in New Haven,
Conn., three years, and then in Chicago, 111. In 1869,
with J. A. Bates of that city, under the name of Ludden
& Bates, he established the Southern Music House in

1849-1850 i75

Savannah, Ga., and for several years edited the Southern
Musical Journal. For many years, his home had been in
Brooklyn, N. Y.

He published "A Manual of Music," 1862, ''Sacred
Lyrics," 1871, a "Pronouncing Musical Dictionary," 1875,
and several musical instruction books. He left incomplete
"Reminiscences of an Octogenarian."

Mr. Ludden died of pneumonia at his home in Brooklyn,
January 2, 1912, in his 89th year. He was a spiritualist.

He married in New Haven, August 14, 1854, Mary Jane,
daughter of Samuel Loper Blatchley, a real estate dealer,
and Mary Ann (Robinson) Blatchley, and sister of his
classmate Joel Sherland Blatchley. Two other brothers of
hers were graduates of the College in 1862 and 1863,
respectively. Mrs. Ludden survives him. They had no
children.

Sidney Phoenix, youngest of the four children of Rev.
Alexander Phoenix (B.A. Columbia Univ. 1795) and
Sarah (Strong) Phoenix, was born August 21, 1829, in
Chicopee, Mass.

After graduation he was in Brooklyn, N. Y., until Decem-
ber, 1850, and then studied farming at an Agricultural
Institute in Germantown, Pa. In October, 185 1, he went
to Harlem, N. Y., and in September, 1852, entered the law
office of E. Ketchum. In September, 1853, he began the
course in Union Theological Seminary, but on account of
ill health engaged in outdoor work, buying a farm near
Paterson, N. J., which he carried on for three years. He
then returned to New York, and in 186 1 completed the
course in Union Theological Seminary. The summer of
that year he preached in Geneseo, N. Y., and the summer
of 1862 in Roxbury and Richmond, Vt, spending part of
the time between in St. Paul, Minnesota. From 1863 to
1865 he engaged in raising fruit near Rochester, and then
until 1873 at Vineland, N. J. Returning to Minnesota he

I76 YALE COLLEGE

was in business in Lake City for a year or two and then con-
tinued his search for health. He was ordained by the
Presbytery of St. Paul October 23, 1884, and after supply-
ing a brief time at Brown's Valley and Royalton, Minn., he
preached at Cumberland and Barron, Wise, from 1884 to
1888, and at Le Roy, Minn., from 1888 to 1890. He was
without charge in Cumberland, Wise, from 1890 to 1893,
and farming at Baraboo, Wise, from 1894 to 1896. He
then retired, and had since resided in Minneapolis, Minn.,
where he died April 24, 191 2. He was 82 years of age.
He married, November 20, 1861, Julia Frances, daughter
of Elias Peabody Metcalf, M.D., of Geneseo, N. Y., and
Maria (Minor) Metcalf, and had a daughter and two sons
(the younger B.A. Univ. Minn. 1898). A brother was a
member of the class of 1843, but died in 1841.

1851

Edward Hungerford, son of John and Charlotte (Aus-
tin) Hungerford, was born in Torrington, Conn., in the
village called Wolcottville, September 20, 1829. His father
was a pioneer in the brass-rolling industry of the Nauga-
tuck valley. He was fitted for college with President
Matthew H. Buckham (B.A. Univ. Vt. 1851) by the latter's
father, Rev. James Buckham, and was a member of the
class of 1850 two years before joining 185 1.

After graduation he remained at Yale a year studying
in the chemical laboratory under Professor John Pitkin
Norton, and spent the winter of 1852-53 in the laboratory
of Professor Benjamin Silliman, Jr., at the University of
Louisville. The following autumn he went to Germany,
and for nearly three years studied general science in the
University of Gottingen, and then at the University of
Berlin, specializing in geology. He returned home in the
summer of 1856, and engaged in the geological survey of
Iowa under the direction of Professor J. D. Whitney

1850-185 1 177

(B.A. Yale 1839), then of the State University of Iowa,
and afterward of Harvard University. In 1857 he became
Professor of Chemistry and Geology in the University of
Vermont, at Burlington, and continued in that position
until 1862, when the departures for the Civil War so
reduced the number of students in the University that the
professorship was discontinued.

In the spring of 1861 he bought a farm at Colchester,
near Burlington. The years of active life there resulted in
vigorous health, so that he turned to the ministry, which
he had early desired to enter. He supplied the pulpit of
the Congregational Church in Winooski, across the river
from Burlington, for some time, but in 1871 accepted a
call to the pastorate of the Center Church in Meriden,
Conn., where he was ordained September 12, 1871, and
where he remained nearly eight years. In 1877 he preached
the Centennial Sermon on the history of the church. From
1884 to 1887 he was pastor at Adams, Mass., in the next
town to his classmate, Rev. Dr. Munger. Returning to
Burlington to his wife's family home there, he devoted his
time chiefly to literary work, but from 1891 to 1893 and
for several years from 1904 preached as in his earlier
ministry at Winooski. He received the honorary degree of
Master of Arts from the University of Vermont in 1858.

Two scientific papers of his were published in the
American Journal of Science, and other articles in the
New Englander, Andover Review, Atlantic Monthly, and
Century Magazine, and in leading newspapers. He gave
much thought and study to the subject of church liturgy,
and prepared the "American Book of Church Services,"
1889, "Selections for Responsive Readings," and "The
Common Order of Morning Worship," 1902.

Mr. Hungerford died at his home in Burlington,
August 5, 191 1, in the 82d year of his age. His health
had been failing for a year, following a shock, but until
the last week he was able to walk in his grounds.

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He married, in Burlington, September i, 1859, Maria
Abigail, daughter of Frederick and Eliza Whelply
(Hickok) Buell. She died in 1908, and they lost a son,
but three daughters and one son (B.A. Yale 1886) survive
him.

Robbins Little, son of William Little (B.A. Harvard
1809), a lawyer of the Boston bar who died in 1834, and
grandson of William Little (B.A. Yale 1777), was born
February 15, 1832, at Newport, R. I. His mother was
Sophia Louisa, daughter of Hon. Asher Robbins, LL.D.
(B.A. Yale 1782), who was United States senator from
Rhode Island. He was fitted for college at Taunton, Mass.

After graduation he remained in New Haven a year on
the Clark scholarship, and also engaged in private tutoring.
In October, 1852, he sailed from New York in the clipper
ship Wild Pigeon on a voyage around the world for the
benefit of his health, going around Cape Horn to San
Francisco, then to Canton, and around the Cape of Good
Hope, reaching home in July, 1853. In September follow-
ing he entered the Yale Law School, and was also
engaged in private tutoring, and was temporarily rector of
the Hopkins Grammar School. In 1854 he received the
degree of Master of Arts in course, and was Tutor of
the Sophomores in Horace and the Juniors in Greek, but
soon resigned to enter the law office of Buckham, Smales
& Greene in New York, where he was admitted to the bar.
He then went abroad for a year, spending the winter in
Rome, and in the spring visiting Athens and Jerusalem.

On his return to New York he formed a law partnership
with his classmate, William Winthrop. This was dis-
solved when the latter entered the Union army at the
beginning of the Civil War. From 1865 to 1869 he was
instructor in international law in the United States Naval
Academy at Annapolis. On resigning this position he
spent a summer in the saddle and camping out with the

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United States Geological Survey of the Fortieth Parallel,
then studied at Harvard University and received the degree
of Bachelor of Laws from there in 1870. From 1873 to
1878 he was examiner of claims in the War Department at
Washington.

In the spring of 1878 he was appointed superintendent
of the Astor Library in New York, and also a trustee.
While there he had charge of the preparation of a cata-
logue in four large volumes, 1886-88, and continued at the
head of the library till 1896, when it was merged in the
New York Public Library.

Since his retirement he had devoted himself to the study
of history and comparative constitutional law, and since
1903 had lived in Newport. He died there after an illness
of several years from paralysis, April 13, 1912, at the age
of 80 years. He never married. He was a communicant
of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

John Willock Noble, son of John and Catharine
(McDill) Noble, was born in Lancaster, O., October 26,
1 83 1. He was a student in Miami University for over
three years, and then joined his class at Yale in Junior
year. In Senior year he was one of the editors of the
Yale Literary Magazine.

After graduation he studied law in the office of Henry
Stanbery, afterward Attorney General of the United States
under President Johnson, and of his brother, Henry C.
Noble (B.A. Miami 1845), in Columbus, O. He received
the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the Cincinnati Law
School in 1852 and the following year was admitted to the
bar and practiced a short time in Columbus. In 1855 he
was admitted to the bar in St. Louis, Mo., and he began
to practice there, but finding the pro-slavery sentiment very
strong he removed to Keokuk, la., in 1856, and formed a
partnership with Hon. Ralph P. Lowe (B.A. Miami 1829),

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Governor of Iowa 1858-60. In 1859-60 he was city
attorney of Keokuk.

When the Civil War began he aided in driving back men
attempting to invade Iowa from Missouri, taking part in
the battle of Athens on the border, and soon enlisted in
the Third Iowa Cavalry, being appointed first lieutenant
of Company C, and shortly after adjutant of the regiment.
He served throughout the war in the same regiment, and
was in the battle of Pea Ridge, the siege of Vicksburg, the
battle of Tupelo, Miss., the storming of Selma, Ala., the
capture of Columbus, Ga., and many other engagements.
He was judge advocate of the Army of the Southwest and
the Department of the Missouri in 1862-63. In Novem-
ber, 1862, he was appointed major, in May, 1864, lieu-
tenant-colonel, and the following month colonel. For
distinguished and meritorious service he was brevetted
brigadier-general by Congress, March 13, 1865.

After the war he settled in St. Louis, where he soon
established a notable practice. From 1867 to 1870 he was
United States district attorney for the Eastern District of
Missouri. His valuable service in this capacity, especially
in the prosecution of whiskey and tobacco frauds, was
appreciated by President Grant, who afterward offered
him the position of solicitor general. This he declined, and
forming the firm of Noble & Orrick, thereafter devoted
himself to private practice, except from 1889 to 1893,
when he served as Secretary of the Interior in President
Harrison's cabinet. He had long been interested in the
development of a national forest system for the United
States, and in 1891, by his active cooperation, the act was
passed and signed which for the first time made possible an
effective system of forest preservation, by authorizing the
president to reserve timberlands on the public domain.
Secretary Noble himself at once laid out the first of these
national reserves adjoining the Yellowstone Park and later
by President Harrison's authority created the Sierra,

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Grand Canyon, and other reserves, thus becoming the official
pioneer in conservation. He also did much to improve the
condition of the Indian wards of the government.

General Noble was in demand as a speaker on important
occasions, and gave the Commencement address at Miami
University in 1893. He received the degree of Doctor of
Laws from that university in 1 889, and from Yale in 1891.
He was a member of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science.

General Noble died after a month's illness in St. Louis,
March 22, 191 2. He was 80 years of age.

He married at Northampton, Mass., February 6, 1864,
Lizabeth, daughter of Dr. Hatfield Halstead and Mercy
(Comstock) Halstead, and had a daughter and son who
died in infancy. Mrs. Noble died in 1894.

Joseph Sheldon, fourth son and next to the youngest
of the eight children of Colonel Joseph Sheldon, who was
a pioneer in Jefferson County, N. Y., was born in Water-
town, in that county, January 7, 1828. His mother was
Hepzibah (Richardson) Sheldon.

He began teaching school when but fourteen years old,
and awakened such unusual interest in his pupils that
scholars from outside the district crowded his school.
After three winters of teaching he began to prepare for
Hamilton College, but his health entirely failed, and for
a time he gave up hope of a college education. While on
a trip to examine the agricultural and scientific schools
which had recently been established at Cambridge and New
Haven, a chance conversation influenced him to enter the
Academical Department of Yale, and he later joined his
class in Sophomore year. He won a Townsend prize and
"Yale Lit." medal.

Upon graduation from college he entered the Law School,
and also studied in the office of Hon. E. K. Foster (B.A.
Yale 1834). In 1853 lie received the degree of Bachelor

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of Laws and the following year that of Master of Arts
in course. During his law course considerable law business
had come to him, and he decided to remain in New Haven.
He also taught in the schools of Hon. Aaron N. Skinner
(B.A. Yale 1823) and General William H. Russell (B.A.
Yale 1833).

Early in i860 he was commissioned by several of the
leading carriage makers of New Haven to close their
accounts with their Southern customers, but while in North
Carolina was placed under guard and compelled to return
North. In New Haven he raised and drilled a small com-
pany of colored men, most of whom became officers in
Connecticut regiments, and aided escaping slaves over the
"underground railroad."

In 1859 ne formed a law partnership with Hon. Lyman
E. Munson (LL.B. Yale 1851) which was dissolved in
1865, when the latter was appointed judge of the Supreme
Court of Montana. After this he devoted much time to
business interests, and from 1868 to 1874 was in London,
England, where he successfully developed the manufacture
and sale of machine-made brushes.

After his return to New Haven he was a member of
the Board of Alderman in 1879 and 1880, and judge of
the City Court from 1881 to 1883. In 1881 he represented
Connecticut in the Tariff Convention in New York, at
which he made an address, and in 1884 was appointed by
President Arthur a delegate of the National Government
to the Red Cross Convention at Geneva, Switzerland, where
he presented and carried throngh an amendment favored
by the American delegation. In recent years he had been
occupied in the development of real estate.

He was keenly interested in public affairs, an independ-
ent thinker, and an able writer and speaker. He was
long an active advocate of temperance reforms, of woman's
suffrage, and of the free coinage of silver. In 1904 he
was the candidate of the People's party for governor of

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Connecticut. He was a Unitarian, but for many years
active in the work of the Universalist Church in New
Haven.

Judge Sheldon had been for some time in feeble health
and died of cerebral hemorrhage at his home in New
Haven, October 25, 191 1, at the age of 83 years. The
interment was in Syracuse, N. Y.

He married at Syracuse, September 7, 1861, Abby,
daughter of Samuel Elbridge Barker, of Onondaga County,
N. Y. Mrs. Sheldon died March 30, 191 1, but two
daughters survive him, one of whom married Edward M.
Tillinghast (B.A. Yale 1888).

1854

Yung Wing, second son of Ming Kun Yung and
Lien Tai Lin, was born November 17, 1828, in the village
of Nam Ping, near Macao, China, and received his early
education in Macao in the missionary school of Mrs.
GutzlafF, an English lady, and that just started by the
Morrison Education Society, under the charge of Rev.
Samuel Robbins Brown, D.D. (B.A. Yale 1832), and soon
removed to Hong Kong. In 1847 with two other Chinese
boys from the latter school he came with Rev. Dr. Brown
to the United States, expecting to return in two years, but
friends enabled him to continue his studies here, and he
was fitted for college at Monson (Mass.) Academy, under
Rev. Charles Hammond (B.A. Yale 1839). He became
a member of the Monson Congregational Church.

In Sophomore year he twice won the first prize in
English composition. During the latter half of his course
he was steward of a boarding house and librarian of the
Brothers in Unity, thereby largely earning his way.

Before graduation he had determined to do what he
could to secure the regeneration and enlightenment of
China through Western education. He had studied survey-
ing under Professor William A. Norton and greatly

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desired to remain longer in this country and take a scientific
course, but in November, 1854, he sailed for China in
company with Rev. William Allen Macy (B.A. Yale 1844),
who had been one of his teachers in the Morrison School
in Hong Kong and was then going out as a missionary of
the American Board.

On reaching his native land after an absence of eight
years he engaged in many different occupations before
gaining the position and influence necessary to secure the
educational advantages he desired for China. After
regaining his command of the Chinese language he was at
first for a short time secretary to Dr. Peter Parker (B.A.
Yale 1831), for many years a medical missionary in
Canton and at that time United States Commissioner, was
then interpreter in the Hong Kong Supreme Court, then
in the Imperial Customs Translating Department at
Shanghai. The last position was financially a good one,
but on account of the system of graft he found to prevail,
he resigned after four months. In 1859 he engaged in
the tea and silk commission business, which he continued
with profit until 1863, when he entered the service of the
Viceroy Tsang Kwoh Fan. In June, 1864, he was sent
abroad by the viceroy to purchase machinery for a machine
shop, afterward known as the Kiang Nan Arsenal, near
Shanghai. To this a mechanical school was afterward
attached at Yung Wing's suggestion.

After visiting France and England he decided to make
his purchase in the United States, and reached New Haven
in season to attend his class decennial reunion. He spent
six months in this country while the machinery was being
constructed in Fitchburg, Mass., and then, in the spring
of 1865, left New York for San Francisco by way of the
Isthmus of Panama, and finished the circuit of the globe.
A few months after his return to China he received an
official document making him a Mandarin of the fifth rank,
and later he was raised to the fourth rank.

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In 1868 the opportunity suddenly came to present his
plan to the prime minister for the education of picked
Chinese youths abroad for public service, but the retirement
and death of this official caused a delay of two years, when
the Chinese Educational Commission was finally authorized.
A group of thirty students was to be sent to the United
States annually for four years, each student to have fifteen
years to complete his education. If the first and second
detachments proved a success the experiment was to be
continued indefinitely. Headquarters were established in
Hartford, Conn., where a preparatory school was built. In
the autumn of 1872 the first group of students reached
this country, and in 1875 the last group came. Yung
Wing was appointed chief commissioner, and with this
office promoted to the third official rank.

In 1873 he made a brief visit to China and induced the
government to send large orders for Gatling guns, and
while there he was appointed to visit Peru and investigate
the condition of the Chinese coolies in that country. In
1878 he was appointed associate minister to Washington,
and also raised to the second rank of Mandarin, and
invested with the title of Taou Tae (or Intendant) of the
Province of Kiang Su. Through the efforts of the reac-
tionary party the Educational Commission was abolished
in 1 88 1 and the students were recalled. Recently, how-
ever, through the influence of some of the students who
have risen to power, the work of the commission has been
revived.

In the spring of 1892 Dr. Yung returned to China.
While in Peking he prepared a plan for the suppression
of the Indian opium trade in China, but he was informed
that the government could not then find suitable men to
carry out the plan, and it was laid aside for many years.
In the spring of 1883 he returned to the United States,
where he remained until the outbreak of the war between
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he went again to China to see the Viceroy Chang Chi Tung,
by whom he had been commissioned to raise a loan in
London to enable the government to continue the war, and
was appointed secretary of foreign affairs for Kiang Nan,
but soon severed his official connection with that province,
and made his headquarters in Shanghai, where he labored
for the establishment of a national banking system and
received a concession for a railroad to be built with
Chinese capital, but at that time both projects failed. In
1897 he represented China at the jubilee of Queen Victoria
in London. In 1902 he returned permanently to the United
States.

After the empress dowager gained control of the govern-
ment in 1898 a price was placed upon his head, but the
ban was removed in 1905. Since the establishment of the
republic he had been keenly interested in its progress, and
had been in constant correspondence with its leading spirits.

In 1876 he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from
Yale. In 1909 Henry Holt & Company published his
autobiography, "My Life in China and America."

Dr. Yung died of apoplexy at his home in Hartford,
April 21, 1912. He was in the 84th year of his age. The
funeral services were conducted by Rev. Joseph H. Twichell
(B.A. Yale 1859), for more than forty years his intimate
friend and his pastor in the Asylum Hill Church. He was
buried in the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford.

He married February 24, 1875, Mary Louisa, daughter
of Bela Crocker and Mary Golden (Bartlett) Kellogg, of
Avon, Conn., and had two sons, the elder a graduate of
the Sheffield Scientific School in 1898, and the younger
of the College in 1902. Mrs. Yung died May 29, 1886.

1855

Charles James Fox Allen, son of Charles James Fox
Allen, appraiser in the Boston Custom House and Maria
Antoinette (Willis) Allen, was born August 14. 1834, in

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Boston, Mass. He was prepared for college at the Boston
Latin School.

For a year after graduation he continued in general
study in Boston, and then taught two years in Providence,
La. In September, 1858, he entered the Harvard Law
School, received his degree of Bachelor of Laws in the
summer of 1859, and in November following began
practice in St. Louis, Mo.

At the opening of the Civil War he entered the Union
Army, and served through the war with the commission of
additional paymaster and the rank of major, being stationed
most of the time at Louisville, Ky. After the war he
engaged in the hardware and iron business in that city,
becoming accountant for the firm of W. B. Belknap &
Co. (later the Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Co.),
and also a partner in the business. For many years he had
had a stock farm at Tallahassee, Fla., and an orange grove
at Port Orange in the same state.

Major Allen died after a long illness of heart disease
at his home at Glenview, near Louisville, June 8, 191 1, in
the 77th year of his age.

He married at Louisville, June 6, 1865, Caroline, daughter
of William Burke Belknap, head of the firm of W. B. Bel-
knap & Co., and Mary (Richardson) Belknap, and sister
of William Richardson Belknap and Morris Burke Belknap
(Ph.B. Yale 1869 and 1877, respectively). Mrs. Allen
died May 30, 1897. They had four sons and a daughter,
all of whom survive. The eldest son graduated from the
Sheffield Scientific School in 1889, and the others from
the Academical Department, the second, Lafon, in 1893,
and the two youngest, Arthur and Charles, in 1901.

George Bulkley, son of Lot and Emeline (Jennings)
Bulkley, was born February 10, 1836, at Southport, Conn.

After graduation he remained in New Haven studying
engineering under Professor William A. Norton till 1857,

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and then spent two years in travel and study. He received
the degree of Master of Arts from Yale in 1858. From
i860 to 1863 he was engaged with others of his family,
under the name of E. Bulkley & Sons, in the shipping
business in New York City, but since then had lived quietly
but usefully and influentially in Southport, Conn. He was
a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
from Fairfield in 1891.

Mr. Bulkley died in Southport, September 28, 191 1. He
was 75 years of age, and had never married. He left no
brothers or sisters. His brother Milton graduated from
the College in 1861 and died in 1872, and an uncle, Henry
Thorp Bulkley, graduated in 1832.

Nathaniel Willis Bumstead, son of Josiah Freeman
Bumstead, a merchant and author of school books, and
Lucy Douglas (Willis) Bumstead, nephew of Nathaniel
Parker Willis (B.A. Yale 1827), also of Richard Storrs
Willis (B.A. Yale 1841), was born March 19, 1834, in
Boston, Mass., and fitted for college at the Boston Latin
School.

After graduation he remained in New Haven as a stu-
dent on the Berkeley Scholarship foundation, from
September, 1855, to February, 1856, and then until the
following August taught in the Boston Latin School. He
received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale in 1858.
In 1857 he was in the grain business in Chicago, and then
traveled in the West and devoted himself to study in
Boston, attending lectures at the Harvard Law School, but
in the spring of 1859 he went into the wall paper business
established by his grandfather and carried on by his
father. This he conducted under the firm name of J. F.
Bumstead & Co. till his retirement in 1897. He was a
director of the Atlantic National Bank of Boston, and of
the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co.

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In the summer of 1862 he raised Company D in the
45th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and was captain
of this company during its nine months' service in the
vicinity of Newbern, N. C. In December, 1862, it was
in the Goldsboro expedition, and was in the battles of
Kinston and Whitehall. During the spring of 1863 Captain
Bumstead was on detached service in Newbern as Provost
Marshal.

While in Rome, Italy, in 1867, he had a severe illness,
and since then had traveled extensively, much of the time
for the sake of his health. He died in Boston, February
I, 1912, in his 78th year. He never married. One
brother, Rev. Horace Bumstead, D.D. (B.A. Yale 1863),
survives him.

1856

Charles Taylor Catlin, son of Charles Taylor Catlin
(B.A. Yale 1822) and Lucy Ann (Derby) Catlin, and
grandson of Lynde Catlin (B.A. Yale 1786), was born at
New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y., May 25, 1835, but
entered college from Brooklyn, N. Y.

After graduation he taught for about six years in
Brooklyn, at first as a private tutor and then as instructor
in the classics in the Clark and Brownell School. He
received the degree of Master of Arts in course in 1859.
In 1862 he entered the office of the Citizens' Gas Light Co.
of Brooklyn, three years later became assistant secretary,
and then secretary, holding that position twelve years.
Since his retirement from business at the end of 1879 he
had devoted himself to literary and dramatic work and
had appeared in hundreds of public readings and recitals
of original and standard works. With a natural gift for
impersonation and training as a speaker he soon won
success in amateur theatricals, and his presentation of
characters from Shakespeare and the best comedies, and

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his lectures on the literature and history of the stage
brought much critical favor. He was long connected with
the local dramatic societies of Brooklyn and the vicinity
as actor, coach, or in honorary positions, and wrote often
in prose and verse for newspapers and dramatic publica-
tions. For many years he was president of the New
York Chapter of the Actors' Church Alliance, of which he
was one of the organizers, and was actively engaged in
promoting its work up to the time of his death. He was
also a member of the National Art Theater Society.
Most of his professional work was for the benefit of
various charitable societies. He was a member of the
board of visitors of the New York Institution for the
Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb.

He spent several summers in journeying through Europe,
in 1891 being in company with his classmate French.

For thirty-four years he was a member of the Class
Committee, and long its treasurer. He contributed many
original songs to the class reunions, and his mirthfulness,
versatility, and class loyalty made his presence seem
indispensable.

He was one of the founders of the Yale Club of New
York and was chairman of the committee of alumni sub-
scribers to a fund to present to the University a statue
of Nathan Hale, designed by William Ordway Partridge.

January 28, 1900, his old home on First Place, Brooklyn,
was destroyed by fire, and since then he had lived at the
Hotel St. George, where he died of pneumonia, January 4,
1912. He took part December 20 and 21 in a Christmas
mystery play at Carnegie Lyceum, New York, and was to
have repeated the part in Brooklyn January 3, 4 and 6.
He was 76 years of age. He was a communicant of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, but long attended the Second
Unitarian Church in Brooklyn, where the funeral services
were held. His body was cremated, and the ashes buried
in Greenwood Cemetery.

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He married, December 2, 1863, Mary Louise, daughter
of William Pickering and Mary Louise (Bridge) Libby, of
Brooklyn. Mrs. Catlin survives him without children.
Three brothers, Judge Lynde A. Catlin (B.A. Yale 1853),
Rev. Hasket D. Catlin (B.A. Yale 1859), and Dr. Arnold
W. Catlin (B.A. Yale 1862), are living. Rt. Rev. Sidney
Catlin Partridge, D.D. (B.A. Yale 1880), is a nephew.

Seneca McNeil Keeler, son of Hervey and Mary
(Mead) Keeler, was born May 31, 1835, in Ridgefield,
Conn. He was prepared for college by Rev. Whitman
Peck (B.A. Yale 1838), his brother-in-law.

After graduation he was for a short time a private tutor
in Natchez, Miss., and then returning North taught about
two years in North Salem, N. Y., and during the latter
part of 1858 at Kingsboro (now in Gloversville), N. Y.
In 1859 he received the degree of Master of Arts in course
from Yale, and the same year became principal of East
Bloomfield Academy, Ontario County, N. Y. The follow-
ing year he entered Auburn Theological Seminary, grad-
uated in 1863, and July 8 was ordained by the Presbytery
of Chenango, and installed pastor of the Congregational
Church at Guilford, N. Y., where he remained three years.
From 1866 to 1870 he was pastor at Smyrna, from 1870
to 1872 at Madison, both in New York state. In this last
year he removed to Massachusetts, and began a pastorate
of six years over the Second Congregational Church in
West Newbury. He preached at the Old South Presby-
terian Church at Newburyport, and for the Congregational
Church in Georgetown, Mass., from 1878 to 1880, and was
pastor of the First Congregational Church at Milford,
Conn., from 1880 to 1883, and the succeeding six years
at South Britain, Conn.

After a brief residence in Bridgeport, Conn., he was
pastor of the Centennial Presbyterian Church at Jeffer-
sonville, Montgomery County, Pa., from 1891 to 1 896.

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In January, 1897, he removed to Newton Center, Mass., to
reside with a son, and was there until the autumn of 1898,
engaged in literary work, then moved to Bainbridge, N. Y.,
to occupy a permanent home of his own, which was broken
up by the death of his wife. He was then with his son
a year in Brooklyn, N. Y., preaching occasionally. In
November, 1900, he was settled over the Presbyterian
Church in Jewett, N. Y. The following year he was
elected moderator of the Presbytery of Columbia, and was
also chosen president of the Catskill Mountain District
Christian Endeavor Convention. In June, 1906, he closed
his pastorate, and after an almost uninterrupted service of
forty-three years retired from the active ministry. He had
since lived in Danbury, Conn., where he died very suddenly
of heart trouble, May 25, 1912. He was nearly 77 years
of age. His burial was in Ridgefield.

He was a delegate to the National Congregational
Councils of 1865 and 1877.

Mr. Keeler married, at North Salem, N. Y., August 24,
1857, Alice B., daughter of Underhill and Laura (Rey-
nolds) Smith, and had six daughters, one of whom died
in childhood, and one son. Mrs. Keeler died in Bainbridge,
September 5, 1899, and in October, 1900, he married Mrs.
Mary E. Eggleston, sister of his first wife, who survives
him.

Edward Cornelius Towne, son of Ebenezer W. and
Sophia A. (Hawkes) Towne, was born October 9, 1834,
in Goshen, Mass. After two years in Beloit College he
joined the Sophomore class in Yale in February, 1854, from
Batavia, 111.

At graduation he was salutatorian of the class. The
following year he studied theology in New York, and
later until December, 1859, in Yale Theological Seminary,
during this time also teaching. He was ordained at the
Free Church, South Braintree, Mass., July II, i860. In

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the spring of 1861 he became pastor of the First Parish
(Unitarian) in Medford, Mass., and remained there nearly
seven years.

Since then he had been chiefly engaged in journalism and
literary work, although much of the time he was also
preaching. For a year from February, 1868, he was on
the editorial staff of the Chicago Tribune, then wrote for
the Chicago Evening Journal until the great fire in 1871,
and published five numbers of his own quarterly magazine,
The Examiner; a Reviezv of Religious and Human Ques-
tions. From 1868 to June, 1872, he resided in Winnetka,
111., was then for a year each in New Haven, Conn., and
Northampton, Mass., continuing the next two years in
Massachusetts, successively in North Easton, Plymouth,
and East Marshfield.

In September, 1876, he went to England, where for five
and a half years he preached continuously in Unitarian
pulpits in Reading, Swansea (Wales), Manchester, Stan-
nington, and Birmingham. While in Manchester in 1878
he published "Causes of Life, Structure, and Species."
He returned to America in the spring of 1882, and lec-
tured on "The Electrical History of Creation," and the
following fall went to Westboro, Mass., in July, 1883, to
Plymouth, Mass., and then to Waterville, Me., where he
was engaged in preaching. In 1885 he lived in Cambridge,
Mass., but in 1888 went to New York, where his work
was chiefly on the Encyclopedia Britannica and other
encyclopaedias as contributor, reviser, and index-maker.
From 1888 to 1890 he was in New Haven, preparing
articles for the "Columbian Cyclopaedia," and then
removed again to Chicago. For more than a year he
edited Self -Culture, a magazine, in 1896 published the
"Story of Money," and later three other small volumes
forming a Gold Standard Library. With Rev. Dr. John
H. Barrows, he edited the report of the "Parliament of
Religions," in two volumes. He also compiled an "Ana-

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lytical Index" and "Index Guide" for Charles Dudley
Warner's "Library of the World's Best Literature." He
wrote "Studies in Pilgrim Story," and revised and edited
the "Life and Times of Washington," by Schroeder and
Lossing, in five volumes. He also wrote an appreciative
and critical notice of the life and work of Dr. Elisha
Mulford (B.A. Yale 1855).

After living for several years in Albany, N. Y., in
newspaper work, he spent some time again near Boston
and again in England, and then went to Brooklyn, N. Y.,
where he died of paranoia in a hospital, June 20, 191 1,
in the 77th year of his age. His body was cremated and
the ashes were carried to Plymouth, Mass.

He first married at Medford, Mass., December 19, 1864,
Henrietta Page, but this marriage was dissolved in 1872.
January 9, 1884, he married Ann Elizabeth Hathaway of
Plymouth, Mass., who died in 1910. He had no children.
An elder brother and younger sister survive him.

i857

Robert Brown, son of Robert and Caroline Augusta
(Johnson) Brown, was born March 8, 1836, in Cincinnati,
O. His grandfather's family had come there from Scotland
a few years before. He was prepared for college under
private instruction there, and joined his class the third term
of Freshman year. His name on entering college was
Robert Henry Brown, but he dropped the middle name in
Senior year. In Sophomore year he was largely instrumental
in obtaining the first gymnasium on Library street.

After graduation he spent a year in the Yale Medical
School for the study of comparative anatomy, and then
returned to Cincinnati, where he engaged in the pork-pack-
ing business with his father until 1866. In that year he whs
appointed assistant secretary of the Cincinnati Gas Light
and Coke Co., and filled in succession the positions of secre-

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tary, treasurer, and president, remaining with the company
sixteen years.

At a meeting held in Cincinnati in 1864 to draft resolu-
tions on the death of the elder Professor Benjamin Silliman
a proposition of his led to the formation of a Yale Club,
believed to be the first one organized, and of this he was a
charter member and the first secretary. He took an active
interest in libraries, being treasurer of the Young Men's
Mercantile Library Association in 1861-62, and correspond-
ing secretary the following two years. From 1863 to 1883
he was director and treasurer of the Theological and
Religious Library, and on the board of managers of the
Public Library from 1866 to 187 1. He was also a member
of the School Board of Cincinnati in 1866-67.

In 1882, soon after the organization of the Yale Observa-
tory Mr. Brown was appointed secretary of that department,
and held that office twenty-five years, becoming secretary
emeritus in 1907, and doing much for the University by gifts
and interested service. He was a keen and thorough stu-
dent of plant and animal life, and corresponding secretary
of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society from 1859 to 1868,
fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science and secretary of the section on Histology and
Microscopy at the Montreal meeting in 1882, a life member
of the American Microscopical Society, the American
Forestry Association and its vice-president for Connecticut
1886-90, and the Appalachian Mountain Club. He was
deeply interested in public questions, and was a member
of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections,
and the Mohonk Indian Conference. He became a member
of the Church of Christ in Yale College in 1856 and
returned to its membershrip in 1884.

Mr. Brown died of a gradual weakening of the heart at
the home of his sister, the widow of his classmate George S.
Gray, in New Haven, June 11, 191 1, at the age of 75 years.
He was seriously injured by street cars in 42d street, New

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York, in February, 1900, but recovered to a remarkable
degree.

He married, October 2, i860, Caroline P., daughter of
Joel and Piera (Ives) Root of New Haven. Mrs. Brown
died October 28, 1908, and their own daughter died in
infancy, but two adopted daughters (sisters) survive him,
one the widow of Rev. Edward Grier Fullerton, D.D.
(B.A. Univ. Pa. 1883; Ph.D. Yale 1896), who died July
5, 191 1, and the other the wife of Boynton W. McFarland,
Ph.D. (Ph.B. Yale 1889).

Luther Stephen Trowbridge, next to the youngest of
the eleven children of Stephen Van Rensselaer Trowbridge,
a native of Albany, N. Y., and Elizabeth (Conkling) Trow-
bridge, was born July 28, 1836, in Troy, Mich., where his
father had settled as a pioneer in 182 1. He left college on
account of trouble with his eyes the middle of Junior year,
but received the degree of Master of Arts with enrollment
in his class in 1866.

He studied law in the office of Sidney D. Miller (B.A.
Univ. Mich. 1848) in Detroit, Mich., and was admitted to
the bar in 1858. The following year he entered into part-
nership with Hon. Alexander W. Buel and practiced law
in Detroit, until September, 1862, when he joined the Union
Army as major of the Fifth Michigan Cavalry and saw
much hard service. At the battle of Gettysburg his horse
was killed under him. After the Gettysburg campaign he
was promoted, August 25, 1863, to the rank of lieutenant*
colonel of the Tenth Michigan Cavalry, and transferred to
eastern Tennessee, where the summer of 1864 was spent
in scouting, fighting, and skirmishing. From a redoubt
which he built at Strawberry Plains with a small force he
held his position against Generals Wheeler and Brecken-
ridge. July 25, 1864, he was made colonel. From January
to March, 1865, he served as provost marshal general of
East Tennessee, but was released to command his regiment

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on General Stoneman's expedition to cut off communications
in the rear of General Lee's army at Richmond and Peters-
burg. On this expedition he routed General Wheeler's
cavalry at Abbot's Creek, withstood an attack by Ferguson's
brigade, and aided in the capture of the city of Salisbury,
N. C. After this he was sent into Georgia and Alabama in
a pursuit of Jefferson Davis which lasted several weeks.
On his return to Tennessee Colonel Trowbridge was in com-
mand of a cavalry brigade to the close of the war. June
15, 1865, he was brevetted major-general for meritorious
services, and mustered out September 1 of that year.

After the war he practiced law with Alfred Caldwell, in
Knoxville, Tenn., but since April, 1868, had resided in
Detroit, in December, 1868, forming a partnership with
James H. Brewster (Ph.B. Yale 1877), afterward Profes-
sor of Conveyancing in the University of Michigan. In
1873 he was appointed inspector-general of Michigan state
troops and held the position four years. From 1875 to 188.3
he was collector of internal revenue for the First District
of Michigan, and from July of the latter year to July 1,
1885, he was comptroller of the city of Detroit, resigning
this office to accept the vice-presidency of the Wayne
County Savings Bank of Detroit, being also assistant sec-
retary and treasurer. In 1890 he became private secretary
to Hon. Luther Beecher, and upon the death of Mr. Beecher
in 1892 was one of his administrators. Since March, 1903
he had been appraiser of merchandise for the Port of
•Detroit.

General Trowbridge died of paralysis at his home in
Detroit February 3, 1912, at the age of 75 years. Since
1883 he had been a member of Christ Episcopal Church,
Detroit.

He married in Detroit, April 8, 1862, Julia Maria, daugh-
ter of his partner, Hon. Alexander Woodruff and Mary
Ann (Ackley) Buel, and had three sons and four daughters.
His eldest son (B.S. Cornell Univ. 1890) has been director

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of the College of Architecture in Cornell University, and
his second son and namesake graduated from Yale College
in 1897. Mrs. Trowbridge died in 1909 and the youngest
son is deceased, but the other children survive him. His
brother William P. (West Point 1848, M.A. Yale 1870)
was Professor of Dynamical Engineering in Yale Univer-
sity from 1870 to 1877, and his brother Tillman C. (B.A.
Univ. Mich. 1848) president of Central Turkey College
until his decease in 1!

1858

Isaac Delano, son of Ebenezer and Lucy (Hathaway)
Delano, was born October 2J, 1833, in Fairhaven, Mass.,
where he was fitted for college in the High School.

For six years after graduation he was principal of public
schools in Michigan ; three years at Flint with an inter-
val of a year at Fentonville, and a year each at Saginaw
and Lapeer. For about a year following he was military
secretary to Governor Crapo of Michigan at Flint. About
the close of 1865 ne removed to Saginaw, Mich., and after
acting for a few months as agent of the Putnam Fire Insur-
ance Co. of Hartford, Conn., he was for much of the time
for twenty years a lumber inspector for Catlin & Sanborn,
A. W. Wright & Co., and Catlin & Paine.

Meantime he studied law in the University of Michigan,
from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in
March, 1875, and was admitted to the bar the following
month. After two years in the office of John J. Wheeler
in East Saginaw, he was able to carry out his boyhood plan,
and opened his own office, where he practiced law until
about 1901. He was a frequent contributor to the local
press on municipal problems.

Mr. Delano was struck by a trolley car September 26,
191 1, as he was crossing the street, and died soon after at
his home in Saginaw. He was in his 78th year.

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He married at Farwell, Mich., May 21, 1879, Ida-
Frances, daughter of Heniy and Abigail (Hall) Woodruff.
She died May 27, 1909, leaving two sons.

William Henry Steele, youngest of the six children of
Stephen and Lucy (Buell) Steele, was born November 1,
1838, in Windham, N. Y., whither his grandparents had
moved from Connecticut about 1790. He was prepared for
college at the Delaware Literary Institute, Franklin, N. Y.

After graduation he engaged in private tutoring in New
York City and teaching at Camden and Williamstown,
N. Y., till May, 1862. He then began the study of law with
John Olney, at Windham, was admitted to the bar, in
December, 1863 and in July, 1865, became a member of the
firm of Cowles & Steele in Roxbury, N. Y. After prac-
ticing a short time at Valley Falls and Hart's Falls, he was
for two years a member of the law firm of Cromwell & Steele
in Camden, N. Y. In January, 1871, the title of the firm
became Cromwell, Steele & Conlan, and he then gave over
most of the law business to his partners, devoting his
attention chiefly to insurance. On the dissolution of this
firm in 1873 ne formed a partnership with J. F. Morse,
under the name of W. H. Steele & Co., and in 1874 as
Steele & Morse, bankers in Williamstown, N. Y., ten miles
from Camden. He had made his home in Williamstown
since 1869. In 1876 he returned to the law, practicing
by himself.

From 1879 to J882 he was a member of the New York
Assembly. He continued his insurance business till 1882,
and in September of that year took over the hardware
business of E. Dixon & Co., changing the name to W. H.
Steele & Co.

In August, 1887, he moved to Pulaski, N. Y., and in
November, 1889, bought a place in Oswego, which was
thereafter his residence, although since 1897 he had
carried on a store and farm in Altmar.

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In May, 1894, he was chosen second vice-president of
the New York State Constitutional Convention, and with
the sessions of that convention at Albany and the indexing
and afterward the revision of its records he was occupied
till 1899. This revision was printed in five volumes with
a total of six thousand pages, including his quadruple
index. From April, 1896, to July, 1897, he aided Com-
missioner Lyman in organizing the new state excise
department under the Raines law.

Mr. Steele died in Altmar, September 21, 191 1, in the
73d year of his age. He was a member of the Congrega-
tional Church in Oswego and had been chairman of its
Board of Trustees.

He married in Delhi, N. Y., February 20, 1867,
M. Augusta, daughter of DuBois and Jane (Hathaway)
Burhans, and had two daughters and a son. Mrs. Steele
died in 1890 but one of the daughters survives him.

1859

Edwin Bancroft Foote, son of Edwin and Julia Ann
(Bancroft) Foote, was born at North Granville, N. Y.,
May 28, 1836. He was fitted for college in the Hopkins
Grammar School in New Haven, and was a member of
the class of 1858 during a part of Freshman year, but
joined the class of 1859 at the beginning of its course.

After graduation he taught school for several years, at
first as principal of the academy at North Greenwich,
Conn., from 1861 to 1864 as principal of the academy at
Westbrook, Conn., and in 1865 at Rye, N. Y. In 1866 he
received the degree of Master of Arts in course from Yale,
and in 1871 that of Bachelor of Laws from Columbia
University. He did not practice law, but led a retired
life, living mostly in London, New York and New Haven.
He crossed the Atlantic Ocean nearly fifty times.

1858-1859 2°x

In 1899 he became interested in work for boys in New
Haven, and in 1903 established the Edwin Bancroft
Foote Boys' Club, and the following year provided fifty
additional dormitory rooms in the Young- Men's Chris-
tian Association building in New Haven, a stipulated
amount of the income from which was to be devoted
to the support of the Boys' Club. He also gave a dormi-
tory for honor boys at the Good Will Farm in Hinckley,
Me. In order to know the boys he had recently spent the
summer there.

Mr. Foote died after an illness of several months at
Brooklyn, N. Y., January 31, 1912. He was 75 years of
age, and never married.

He bequeathed more than half of his large property to
charitable objects.

George William Jones, son of George William and
Cordelia (Allen) Jones, was born October 14, 1837, at
East Corinth, Me. In both Junior and Senior years he
won a prize in mathematics.

The first three years after graduation he pursued
graduate studies at Yale while teaching mathematics in
the Collegiate and Commercial Institute of General William
H. Russell (B.A. Yale 1833) in New Haven, then taught
the same subject in the Delaware Literary Institute at
Franklin, N. Y., six years, being principal five years. He
received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale in 1862.
In 1868 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics in
the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts at Ames, la., and continued in that position five years.
He was asked to consider the presidency of the college, but
feeling that he was too young he declined.

In 1877 he became Assistant Professor of Mathematics
in Cornell University, in 1893 was made Associate Pro-
fessor, and in 1895 was promoted to a full Professorship.

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After a continuous service of over thirty years he was
retired on the Carnegie Foundation. He is gratefully
remembered by his students for his unfailing generosity
and heartfelt interest in their welfare.

He was joint editor of a Treatise on Trigonometry,
1881, and on Algebra, 1882, and author of Drill Books in
Algebra and Trigonometry, and of standard Logarithmic
Tables, which have been widely used. He was for nearly
twenty years president of the Society for the Prevention
of Crime in Ithaca, and for twenty years a member of
the official board of the First Methodist Church.

Professor Jones dieol suddenly of heart failure while
reading a book at his home in Ithaca, N. Y., October 29,
191 1, at the age of 74 years.

He married in New Haven, Conn., August 11, 1862,
Caroline Tuttle, daughter of John Warner Barber, the
historical writer and engraver, and Ruth (Green) Barber.
She survives him with an adopted daughter.

Thomas Edwin Ruggles, son of Philarmon . and Eliza
(Burroughs) Ruggles, was born May 19, 1838, in New-
bury, Vt., but in 1843 ms father bought a farm in Milton,
Mass. He was fitted for college by Rev. Albert K. Teele,
D.D. (B.A. Yale 1842), for many years pastor of the
Congregational Church there.

After graduation he taught during the first winter in
Kingston, Mass., and then in Milton until February, 1862,
when he became superintendent for about a year of a
plantation on St. Helena's Island, South Carolina, which
was then under the temporary care of the Federal govern-
ment. He remained in the South until 1866, raising cot-
ton for himself part of the time, and then returned to
Milton. The following year he purchased his father's farm
of about eighty acres, and carried on a dairy. In later
years the place has been developed as a residence section.

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From 1869 to l%71, l&73 to 1878, and 1885 to 1891 he
served the town as selectman, and from 1869 to 1874 was
a member of the School Committee. He was a member of
the Village Church, Dorchester, and for nearly twenty
years superintendent of its Sunday School.

Mr. Ruggles died August 7, 191 1, at his home on Rug-
gles Lane, Milton. He was 73 years of age. His health
had been failing for about five years.

He married in Newport, R. I., September 13, 1866, Har-
riot Williams, daughter of John Thomas and Harriot
Letitia (Despard) Murray. Her mother and sister were
missionaries among the freedmen. They had four sons
and three daughters, of whom two sons and a daughter
with Mrs. Ruggles survive him.

Henry Upson, son of Thomas and Jerusha (Upson)
Upson, was born in Wolcott, Conn., May 21, 1831. He
and a twin sister were the youngest of thirteen children.
His baptismal name was Henry Eugene Loomis Upson.
His family removed about 1834 to Kensington, Conn.,
where his father died in 1848. He was fitted for college at
Lewis Academy in Southington.

After graduation he spent over a year each in the
Andover and Yale Theological Seminaries, but left before
finishing his course in the latter to become chaplain of the
Thirteenth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, the same
regiment in which his classmate, Major Cbmstock, served.
He was ordained as an evangelist June 22, 1862, and joined
his regiment in New Orleans, serving in it till after the
fall of Port Hudson. He was specially commended for his
fearlessness in ministering to the wounded on the field and
was zealous in caring for the bodily as well as the spiritual
welfare of the men. Resigning his commission August
7, 1863, he was installed pastor of the Congregational
Church in New Preston, Conn., to which he had been called
a year before. After nine years with that church, he was

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from 1873 to 1878 acting pastor of the church at New Pres-
ton Hill. During his pastorate he began to fit boys for
college, the first of whom were sent him by President
(then Professor) Porter. From this developed the Upson
Seminary, a home school which Mr. Upson continued
until 1905. There were only two occasions in 36 years
when he did not have boys in his house. For some years
he was superintendent of the schools of the town of Wash-
ington, in which New Preston is situated, and in 1897
represented the town in the Legislature and was chair-
man of the house committee on education. In 1907 he
removed to New Britain, Conn., where he died suddenly
of heart trouble September 2, 191 1, at the age of 80 years.
The burial took place at Kensington. He was a grand-
nephew of Rev. Benoni Upson, D.D. (B.A. Yale 1776),
Fellow of the Corporation from 1809 to 1823.

He married, October 13, 1863, Abigail A. M., daughter
of Merritt Piatt and Abigail (Merwin) Piatt, of Milford,
Conn. Mrs. Upson survives him. They had no children.

George Phillippe Welles, son of Leonard Robbins and
Abigail Lane (Pilsbury) Welles, was born February 21,
1838, in Wethersfield, Conn. He was a great-grandson
of Solomon Welles (B.A. Yale 1739). He was prepared
for college at the Hopkins Grammar School in Hartford,
Conn.

After graduation he taught a year in Fulton, 111., and
then had a successful career as instructor in the Central
High School in Chicago, 111., from i860 to 1880, and as
principal of the West Division High School for ten years,
retiring in 1890 on account of his health. He received the
degree of Master of Arts in course from Yale in 1866. He
continued to reside in Chicago, spending his summers at
Lake Minnetonka, Minn., and making occasional winter
trips South for shooting. He was the first secretary of the
Yale Club of Chicago, serving from 1866 to 1868.

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Mr. Welles died at Chicago, 111., January 21, 1912, in his
74th year and was buried in Minneapolis, Minn. He was
never married.

i860

Frederick Henry Colton, son of Jacob and Clarinda
(Robinson) Colton, was born April 24, 1839, at Long-
meadow, Mass. He was prepared for college at Phillips
Academy, Andover, Mass. He was a member of the crew
of the Varuna, and of the University crew in 1859.

After graduation he taught school a year in Brooklyn,
N. Y., and then took the course in the Long Island College
Hospital, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine in
1864. From 1863 to 1865 he was in the United States
Army as acting assistant surgeon in various camps and hos-
pitals in and about the city of Washington. Since then he
had been in general medical practice in Brooklyn, and had
been for thirty years visiting physician at the Long Island
College Hospital, St. John's Hospital, the Brooklyn Home
for Aged Men and Couples, and after long filling the office
of secretary of the directors of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear
Hospital was chosen president. He was a trustee and
deacon of the Church of the Pilgrims.

Dr. Colton died from cardio-vascular degeneration after
a week's illness at his home in Brooklyn, March 16, 1912,
in his 73d year.

He married in Brooklyn, October 25, 1865, E. Alice,
daughter of Rev. Alonzo Gray, D.D. *(B.A. Amherst 1834),
who was the principal of the Brooklyn Heights Seminary
for Girls, and Sarah Hurd (Phillips) Gray. Mrs. Colton
died February 1, 1890. They had five sons and four
daughters. One of the three surviving sons graduated
from Columbia University as a Bachelor of Philosophy in
Architecture in 1890, and the other two from the Academi-
cal Department at Yale in 1892 and 1896, respectively.

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The daughters are all living. One of them is the wife
of Rev. Arthur L. Gillett, D.D. (B.A. Amherst 1880),
Professor in Hartford Theological Seminary.

Clarence Edward Dutton, son of Samuel and Emily
(Curtis) Dutton, was born May 15, 1841, in Wallingford,
Conn. He was prepared for college at Ellington, Conn.
In 1859 he won the ''Yale Lit" medal.

He was a Graduate student in New Haven in 1861 and
1862, but in September of the latter year he enlisted in
the Twenty-first Connecticut Infantry and was appointed
adjutant. He was wounded at the battle of Fredericks-
burg, but rejoined his regiment at Norfolk, Va., and was
in many skirmishes and in the battle of Suffolk, Va., and
later on garrison duty near Beaufort, N. C.

In December, 1863, he passed an examination for a
position in the ordnance corps of the regular army, and
in January, 1864, was appointed second lieutenant of
ordnance. He became first lieutenant in March, 1867,
captain in June, 1873, an<^ major in May, 1890. After a
period of duty at Fort Monroe and at the Allegheny
Arsenal, Pittsburgh, and elsewhere, he joined the Twenty-
third Army Corps in Tennessee just before the battle of
Harpeth River. From January, 1865, to the close of the
war he was in command of the ordnance depot of the
Army of the Potomac.

He was then stationed at the Watervliet Arsenal, at West
Troy, N. Y. There he devoted his leisure during five
years to the study of steel and of geology, and in 1869
read before the American Association for the Advancement
of Science his first scientific paper, "On the Chemistry of
the Bessemer Process." The following year he was trans-
ferred to the Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, and while
there read several papers before the Franklin Institute, the
American Philosophical Society, and the Academy of
Sciences. In 1871 he was transferred to the Washington

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Arsenal, where he continued his scientific studies, until in
1875, he was detailed to the Survey of the Rocky Mountain
Region under Major John W. Powell, and began his
geological field work in the high plateaus of Utah. After
three years of work there he wrote his first monograph,
"The High Plateaus of Utah." In 1878 he began the
survey of the Grand Canyon district, immediately south of
the high plateaus, the first year under Clarence King (Ph.B.
Yale 1862) as director, and then under Major Powell.
Three years were spent in this survey, and Major Dutton
then wrote "The Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon
District." In 1882 he was sent to the Hawaiian Islands,
and after six months of study there he prepared his third
monograph, on the "Hawaiian Volcanoes." Two years
of work in New Mexico, around Fort Wingate, Mount
Taylor, and Zuni, led in 1884-85 to his "Mount Taylor and
the Zuni Plateau." After spending two years in the survey
of the Cascade Range in Northern California, he was
diverted from the volcanic fields there by the occurrence
of the Charleston earthquake of 1886. Through the divi-
sion which he had for several years maintained at his
Washington office for the collection of information about
earthquakes and the aid of Major Powell he secured the
material for "The Charleston Earthquake," which he
finished in 1887.

After this he was in charge of the new irrigation
surveys in the West till the resignation of Major Powell,
and upon his own request was returned to military duty
in September, 1890. As a member of a board on gun
factories, he journeyed in the West and South and then
employed a leave of absence in a trip to Central America.
On his return he was ordered in 1891 to the command of
the San Antonio (Texas) Arsenal. After eight years there
he was made first assistant to the chief of ordnance at the
Washington office, but February 7, 1901, after over thirty
years of service, his application for retirement was granted.

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YALE COLLEGE

Besides the monographs mentioned, he published other
geological papers, and in 1904 a volume, "Earthquakes,"
which was republished in England.

He was a member of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science, of the American Philosophical Society,
and of the National Academy of Sciences.

After his retirement Major Dutton devoted himself
largely to writing, though suffering much from ill health.
He resided at Englewood, N. J., where he died of arterio-
sclerosis with complications, January 4, 1912. He was 70
years of age.

Pie married at New Haven, Conn., April 18, 1864,
Emeline C, daughter of John Newton and Charlotte
Rogers (Bromley) Babcock, of New Haven. Mrs. Dutton
with their son, who bears his father's name, survives.
Their daughter died in 1903, leaving a son, William A.
Prime, Jr. (B.A. Yale 1911).

Major Dutton's brother, Colonel Arthur Henry Dutton,
of the Twenty-first Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, was
a student in the Sheffield Scientific School two years before
entering West Point.

Daniel Cady Eaton, son of Daniel C. and Harriet E.
(Cady) Eaton, was born at Johnstown, N. Y., June 16,
1837. He was a nephew of General Amos B. Eaton, of
the United States Army, and grandson of Professor Amos
Eaton, the distinguished geologist and botanist. Before
coming to college he studied in the Gottingen Gymnasium.
In college he was on the "Wenona" crew.

After graduation he studied in the Columbia and Albany
Law Schools. In the spring of 1861 he was in Washington
as a private in the Seventh Regiment of New York militia,
but soon began the practice of law in New York City, at
first in partnership with his classmate William Fowler, and
then with Alfred J. Taylor (B.A. Yale 1859).

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In 1866 he went to Europe for the sake of his wife's
health and lived for about a year in Dresden. He then
returned to New York City for a year, but in November,
1868, he went abroad again, and was for several months in
Berlin.

In 1869 he was appointed Professor of the History and
Criticism of Art in the Yale School of the Fine Arts, and
spent the next two years in further preparation for his work
in the art centers of Europe, studying the collections and
the history of art, and enrolled himself as a student in the
Ecole des Beaux Arts. He afterward made further trips
to Europe for study. From 1871 to 1876, when he withdrew,
the title of his chair was simply the History of Art. In
1902 he resumed his professorship under the original title
but with a university scope and continued his lectures in
the University until 1907, when he was made Professor
Emeritus.

Professor Eaton published an "Introduction to the Study
of Greek Sculpture," 1879, "A Handbook of Greek and
Roman Sculpture," third edition 1886, "A Handbook of
Modern French Painting," 1909, and had nearly completed
the companion volume, "A Handbook of French Sculpture."
He also wrote "Yale College in 1890," and articles mostly
on artistic, educational, and economic topics, also many
letters over the signature "Periander."

Professor Eaton died at his home in New Haven May
11, 1912, after an illness of about four months. He was
in his 75th year. He was a member of St. Thomas's
Protestant Episcopal Church, New Haven.

He married, December 18, 1861, Alice, daughter of Henry
Young, of New York City. She survives him. They had
no children.

Professor Eaton presented to the Metropolitan Museum
of Art in New York City a large and valuable collection of
volumes on the history of art, engravings, and photographs,
also thousands of lantern slides for use in its educational
work.

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William Pennington, son of Aaron Samuel Penning-
ton (B.A. Princeton 1817), was born in Paterson, N. J.,
August 27, 1839. Both his uncle, William Pennington, and
his grandfather, William S. Pennington, were governors of
New Jersey. His mother was Catherine Wadsworth
(Colt) Pennington. He joined the class in Junior year.

After graduation he began the study of law in the
Columbia Law School, then entered his father's law office
in Paterson. He was admitted to the bar in 1863, and
became a counselor at law in 1870, after which he practiced
his profession in his native city, for years in partner-
ship with Hon. John S. Barkalow (B.A. Yale 1854) and
John R. Beam (B.A. Brown 1872). He was an authority
on testamentary law and the law of real property and as
an executor or trustee commanded the utmost confidence.
He was a director of the Paterson Safe Deposit & Trust Co.
and of the Paterson & Hudson River Railroad, also presi-
dent of the Ramapo Railroad Co. He was a member of
the American Museum of Natural History.

Mr. Pennington died of nervous breakdown at his home
in Paterson, February 17, 191 2, at the age of J2 years. He
was never married. Two brothers survive him.

He was a Presbyterian, a member of the Church of the
Redeemer.

1862

James Franklin Brown, son of George Coggeshall
Brown and Sarah Ann (Stanton) Brown, was born January
10, 1836, in North Stonington, Conn.

Before entering college he taught school three terms.
Immediately upon graduation he enlisted in the Twenty-
first Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, becoming captain of
Company G, a North Stonington company, half of which
he had himself recruited. Major Charles T. Stanton (B.A.
Yale 1 861) was captain of a Stonington company in the
same regiment and Major Clarence E. Dutton (B.A. Yale

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i860) was an adjutant. He served throughout the war,
principally in the Army of the James. In October, 1864,
he was promoted successively to the rank of major and of
lieutenant-colonel, and for some time commanded a brigade
during the siege of Richmond. At the end of the war he
was commissioned colonel.

From 1865 to 1878 he was in the wholesale grocery and
naval supply business in Savannah, then returned and
made his home in North Stonington, representing it in the
state legislature in 1886 and 1889, during the latter session
being chairman of the railroad committee. For many
years he was justice of the peace. In 1885 he transferred
his church membership from the College Church to the
North Stonington Congregational Church, of which he was
deacon from 1908. In 1895 he was appointed a member
of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture, and since 1900
had been its secretary. He was a member of the State
Constitutional Convention of 1902.

Colonel Brown died after several months of failing
health but a brief final illness at his home in North
Stonington, July 25, 191 1, at the age of 75 years.

He married, October 1, 1868, Flarriet Almy Green, of
Portsmouth, R. I., and had four daughters and a son, who
with Mrs. Brown survive him.

Charles Nichols Judson, son of David and Phoebe
(Lewis) Judson, was born November 1, 1839, at Strat-
ford, Conn. He was in the class of 1861 the first term of
Freshman year, and reentered college the following year
from Bridgeport, Conn.

After graduation he studied in Columbia Law School,
from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in
May, 1864, and had since continuously practiced his profes-
sion in New York City, making a specialty of corporation,
patent, and copyright law. One of his several inven-

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tions was a door-closing device used by the United States
Government on its war ships. He was a trustee of the
South Brooklyn Savings Bank, and a director of the Spen-
cerian Pen Co., also for three years chairman of the board
of trustees of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, and a trustee
of the Brooklyn Young Women's Christian Association, of
which his wife was president.

Mr. Judson died at his home in Brooklyn, where he had
lived for fifty years, February 14, 1912, two weeks after
undergoing an operation. He was 72 years of age. His
burial was in Greenwood Cemetery.

He married in Brooklyn, December 23, 1869, Harriet,
daughter of Isaac N. and C. C. (Stillman) Judson, who
survives him.

1863

Thomas Aiguier Kennett, son of Thomas and Emily
F. Kennett, was born September 9, 1841, in Buffalo, N. Y.,
and was prepared for college at Mount Pleasant Institute.

After graduation he joined the staff of the New York
World as exchange reader, soon becoming night editor.
He continued in this position about three years, at the same
time studying two terms in the Columbia Law School. He
received the degree of Master of Arts in course from Yale
in 1866.

In 1866 he, with two others, purchased the Buffalo
Express, which he edited for three years, being also vice-
president of the Express Printing Company. He then sold
his interest to Samuel L. Clemens, and removing to New
York City became a member of the stock-brokerage firm
of Noyes & Kennett.

In 1 87 1 he retired from this firm, and entered the trade
newspaper field. He was for a time associate editor of
the American Furniture Gazette, aided in establishing The

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Ironmonger, and for two years was editor of The Decorator
and Furnisher. In 1873 he founded The Carpet Trade
Review, which in 1882 was consolidated with The Carpet
Trade, and known for a time as The Carpet Trade and
Review and later as The Carpet and Upholstery Trade
Review. He continued on the staff of this paper during
his life, and was also for several years New York corre-
spondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer and London Herald,
and a frequent contributor of the New York Sun.

Mr. Kennett died June 29, 191 1, at St. Joseph's Hospital
in the Bronx Borough, New York, after suffering over a
year from a complication of diseases. He was devoted to
his work, and was able to reach his office until the last
month, although on crutches. He was in his 70th year,
and was never married. A sister survives him.

David Brainerd Perry, son of Samuel Perry, a farmer,
and Mary (Harrington) Perry, was born March 7, 1839,
at Worcester, Mass., and was fitted for college in the High
School there.

After graduation he spent a year in Princeton Theological
Seminary, and during this time served on the Christian
Commission in Virginia for a few weeks. The following
year he was a student in Union Theological Seminary, and
had gone to Andover Seminary for his third year, when
he was invited by President Woolsey to be a tutor in Yale
College. Accepting the offer, he held the office two years,
and during this time completed his theological course in
the Yale Divinity School, receiving the degree of Bachelor
of Divinity in 1867 with the first class to receive that degree.
He was licensed to preach by the New Haven Central
Association June 5, 1867.

In August of that year he went abroad, and spent
fourteen months in travel and study in Berlin. On his
return to America he was in Worcester for a few months

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writing and preaching occasionally, and was then again
tutor in 1870 and 1871.

He was fond of an active, outdoor life, and finding his
health overtaxed, in April, 1872, he went to Nebraska to
do frontier service for the Congregational Home Missionary
Society, preaching at Aurora, Sutton, and Harvard, and
was ordained as an evangelist July 11.

In September, 1872, with restored health he began the
work of creating Doane College, at Crete, Nebr., and fitting
students to enter the Freshman class. During the first
year he was the only instructor, and had the title of tutor.
He then became Professor of Latin and Greek and suc-
cessively senior professor and acting president. He was
also treasurer. In 1881 he was chosen President and con-
tinued in this office till his death. The work of the college
was generously aided by his classmates. In 1898 the
honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon
him by Yale University.

Dr. Perry started East in the winter of 1911-12 in
the interests of Doane College. Reaching Grand Rapids,
Mich., the home of his son, he was taken with pneumonia,
and never fully recovered. In the spring he was removed
to the Battle Creek (Mich.) Sanitarium, where he died
May 21, 1912. He was 73 years of age. The funeral
services were held at Crete, where his forty years of work
for the college had been spent.

He married, July 3, 1876, Helen, daughter of Colonel
Thomas Doane, for whom the college was named, chief
engineer of the Hoosac Tunnel, and Sophia (Clarke)
Doane, of Charlestown, Mass. They had four sons and
a daughter, all of whom, except the second son, with Mrs.
Perry, survive him. Two of the sons graduated from
Doane College in 1897 and 1906, respectively, and the
youngest (Henry Eldridge) is a member of the Senior
class in Yale College.

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1864

Matthew Chaloner Durfee Borden, son of Colonel
Richard Borden, an owner of mills and steamboats and a
builder of railroads, was born July 18, 1842, in Fall River,
Mass. His mother was Abby W. (Durfee) Borden. He
was prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass.

He received the Wooden Spoon in Junior year and in
Senior year was president of Brothers in Unity, also one
of the editors of the Yale Literary Magazine. He was
enrolled with his class in 1867.

Immediately after his college course he became a clerk
for the dry goods firm of Lathrop, Ludington & Co. in New
York City, and in 1868 a member of the firm of Low,
Harriman & Co., in which he represented the American
Print Works of Fall River, Mass., as selling agent. Decid-
ing to manufacture his own cotton cloth the following year
he established the Fall River Iron Works Co. In 1879 the
American Print Works failed, and with his brother he
reorganized them under the name of the American Printing
Co. About the same time he became a partner in the dry
goods commission house of J. L. & E. Wright, and later
in that of Bliss, Fabyan & Co., in which he remained until
January, 1910, when he established his own house of
M. C. D. Borden & Sons. In 1887 he purchased his
brother's interest in the American Printing Co., and enlarged
the works until they are regarded as the most extensive of
their kind in the world. Mr. Borden was independent and
broad-minded in the conduct of his business and in more
than one trade crisis, when other mill owners were reducing
wages, he provided steady work at good wages, or relieved
the cloth manufacturing industry by buying cloth heavily
when the market was overloaded. His considerate attitude
toward the workers averted strikes.

Mr. Borden was one of the original board of directors
of the Lincoln National Bank, a director in the Bank of

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the Manhattan Co., the Astor Place Bank, the Lincoln Safe
Deposit Co., and the New York Security and Trust Co.
In 1868 he was elected vice-president of the Mercantile
Library Association of New York, and was a park com-
missioner for six years, also a director of the Woman's
Hospital of the State of New York.

He was one of the largest contributors to the Yale Bicen-
tennial fund. Some years ago he gave a fine club-house
to the Fall River Boys' Club. He was a collector of rare
books and an enthusiastic yachtsman.

Mr. Borden died May 27, 1912, of pneumonia following
an illness of several months, at his summer home at Oceanic,
N. J. He was in the 70th year of his age.

He married at Fall River, September 5, 1865, Harriet
Minerva Durfee, daughter of Dr. Nathan and Delana
(Borden) Durfee, and had six sons and a daughter. Mrs.
Borden died in 1902. Three sons survive, one of them a
graduate of the College in 1895, and another in 1898.

Olof Page, son of Dr. Thomas and Ann Maria (Lilje-
walch) Page, was born November 24, 1842, at Valparaiso,
Chile. He was fitted for Yale at West Haverford, Pa.,
by Rev. James Gilbourne Lyons, and joined his class at
the beginning of Sophomore year.

After graduation from college he took the medical course
in the University of Pennsylvania, and received the degree
of Doctor of Medicine in 1867. He then spent some time
in Europe and went through the Austro-Prussian War as
surgeon in the Prussian army and then returned to prac-
tice his profession in Valparaiso, which had since been
his home, except for a brief residence in San Francisco,
Cal., in 1879. He also received the degree of Doctor of
Medicine from the University of Chile, in 1869. During
the Peruvian war (1879-83) he served in the Military
Hospital, was surgeon of the Charity Hospital five years
and of the German Hospital six years. Resigning this last

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position, intending to study in Europe, he was appointed,
by the Junta, April 8, 1891, Surgeon General of Chile,
and' at the close of their civil war, in recognition of his
services he was voted full salary for a year of medical
research abroad. In 1904 he made the long journey to
meet with his class at their fortieth anniversary, after
which he returned to Chile. In August, 1906, he and his
family passed safely through the terrible series of earth-
quakes which laid Valparaiso almost in ruins and destroyed
many hundreds of lives.

After a year or more of failing health, Dr. Page died
of arterial trouble at Valparaiso, November 21, 191 1, in
his 69th year. A brother (B.A. Yale 1868) died three
months later.

He married at Valparaiso, December 6, 1869, Eliza,
daughter of Carlos Salkeld, of Tacna, Peru, and had six
sons and two daughters. One daughter is deceased. One
of the sons graduated as a physician from the University of
Strassburg.

Orson Sumner Wood, son of Eleazer L. and Sophronia
A. (Balch) Wood, was born November 15, 1839, at
Mansfield, Conn.

After graduation he taught school a year at Ellington,
Conn., but since then had devoted himself to farming and
dairying near Windsorville in the town of East Windsor.
He had held several town offices, was a member of the
town school committee and was earnest in securing
improved agricultural education in the rural schools. He
was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
in 1873 and 1882. He was a member of the Ellington
Congregational Church, for several years a deacon, and
also superintendent of the Sunday School.

Mr. Wood died of heart disease at his home in East
Windsor, November 5, 191 1, in his 72d year.

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He married at Ellington, March 15, 1870, Mary E.,
daughter of Franklin and Jane (Collins) Miller, who
survives him with two sons and two daughters.

1865

James Edward Chandler, next to the youngest of the
six children of James Stedman and Mary (Sweeting)
Chandler, was born August 27, 1842, at Mexico, Oswego
County, N. Y.

After graduation he studied law with George G. French,
Esq., in his native village, and then attended the Albany
Law School, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws in
the spring of 1867, and being admitted to the bar about the
same time. The following fall he took up his residence in
New York City, where he assisted Benjamin Vaughan
Abbott (B.A. N. Y. Univ. 1850) in the preparation of
several law volumes. In the fall of 1872 he formed a
partnership with his classmate Charles Edgar Smith under
the firm name of Chandler & Smith. This partnership con-
tinued until about 1878, when Mr. Smith's ill health com-
pelled his removal to Colorado. Later Mr. Chandler became
associated with Henry M. T. Beekman (B.A. Rutgers
1877), under the name of Chandler & Beekman, at first in
William street, and recently at 116 Nassau street.

Mr. Chandler died in New York City, November 23,
191 1, at the age of 69 years. He never married.

John Fairfield Dryden, son of John and Elizabeth
(Butterfield) Dryden, was born August 7, 1839, at
Farmington, Me.

He entered college from Worcester, Mass., where he
was prepared at the High School. He left college the
second term of Junior year, but in 1900 received the degree
of Master of Arts from the University with enrollment in
his class.

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Soon after leaving college he engaged in the insurance
business in Ohio, but soon settled in New Jersey. He was
at first general agent of the Globe Mutual Life Insurance
Co., of New York, and secretary of the Mutual Benefit
Co., of New York. He made a thorough study of life
insurance, and investigated the industrial insurance system
in England, where it had been placed on a practical basis.
He started the "Widows and Orphans Friendly Society/'
and with the aid of New Jersey capitalists established in
Newark in 1875 tne Prudential Insurance Company of
America. Of this he was secretary till 1881 and since then
bad been its president.

Mr. Dryden was also one of the founders of the Fidelity
Trust Co., and a director of the Union National Bank of
Newark, director of the National Bank of Commerce of
New York, Equitable Trust Co. of New York, United
States Casualty Co. of New York, the Public Service
Corporation of New Jersey, and the United States Steel
Corporation.

In 1896 and 1900 he was a Republican presidental elector,
and in 1902 was elected United States senator from New
Jersey for an unexpired term of five years. By his con-
scientious and earnest work as a member of the Panama
Canal committee of the Senate he made his large experience
and thorough knowledge of the subject of great service
in legislation.

Mr. Dryden died of pneumonia following an operation
for gall stones, November 24, 191 1, at his home in Newark.
He was 72 years of age. He was a member of the Third
Presbyterian Church.

He married at New Haven, Conn., April 7, 1864, Cynthia
Jennings, daughter of Walter and Abigail (Jennings)
Fairchild. She survives him with a son and daughter.

George Tod Ford, sixth of the seven children of James
Rice Ford, associate judge of the Court of Common Pleas,

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and Julia (Tod) Ford, was born in Akron, O., May 2i,
1841. His father died when he was ten years old. He
was the Spoon man of his class.

After graduation he spent a year in business, and then
began the study of law with his brother-in-law, Hon. Wil-
liam H. Upson of Akron, but soon started on a trip through
the West and along the Pacific Coast, coming back by way
of the Isthmus of Panama. In 1871 he went to Europe
for six months, and on his return delivered a number oi
lectures on his travels. He then resumed his law studies,
and entered the law firm of Upson & Ford. He built up
a successful practice and achieved high reputation as a.
public speaker, but retired on account of illness in his
family. Since then he spent most of his time in travel
until 1903, when he settled in Washington, D. C.

For several years past he had been an invalid there, and
died of paralysis December 24, 191 1. He was 70 years
of age.

He married, October 29, 1879, Caroline, daughter of
Henry Ethelbert and Abigail (Welles) Parsons, who sur-
vives him. They had a daughter and two sons, all of whom
have died.

Gouverneur Morris Thompson, son of John Miles
Thompson, a dry goods merchant and Maria Amelia
(Noble) Thompson, was born in Bridgeport, Conn., Feb-
ruary 4, 1844. He was prepared for college at the Hopkins
Grammar School, New Haven.

After graduation he attended the Albany Law School,
and upon receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws in
1866 entered a law office in New York City. He was then
with John T. Pope and Mr. Catlin in the firm of Pope,
Thompson & Catlin until the death of Mr. Pope in 1873.
Since then had practiced his profession by himself in New
York until May, 1907, when he retired.

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Mr. Thompson died suddenly of heart failure at his
home in New York City, February 6, 191 2. He was 68
years of age. He never married.

William Lamb Warren, son of George and Catherine
B. (Palmer) Warren, was born May 12, 1843, m West-
brook, Me. He was prepared for college mainly at Gor-
ham, Me., and after three years in Bowdoin College joined
his class in Yale at the beginning of Senior year.

After graduation he spent a year in travel for recupera-
tion after typhoid fever, during part of the year following
read law in the office of Hon. William Pitt Fessenden
(B.A. Bowdoin 1823), in Portland, Me., and was then
until 1868 in business there. He was then engaged in the
lumber business in Westbrook with his father until the
latter's death in 1876, and was afterward for a number of
years associated with his brother in the manufacture of
woolen goods. In 1875-76 he represented his town in the
Maine Legislature.

In 1871 he made a trip to California, in 1887 went again,
and in 1888 took up his residence in Los Angeles, caring
for his investments and engaging in the real estate business.
He later made a specialty of raising alfalfa and English
walnuts. During the last fifteen years he was clerk of
the probate department of the Superior Court in Los
Angeles.

Mr. Warren died after a lingering illness at the Clara
Barton Hospital in Los Angeles, April 23, 191 2. He was
in his 69th year.

He married at Paris, Me., December 19, 1872, Isa L.
daughter of Simeon and Emeline (Thayer) Cummings, who
survives him. They had no children. Two brothers and
a sister are living.

Edward Marshall Wright, son of Dudley Chase Cur-
ran and Laura Abby (Wright) Wright, was born in Gran-

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ville, O., June 30, 1839. Although having the same surname
his parents were not related before marriage.

After graduation he taught in the High School in Mil-
ford, Conn., then studied law, receiving the degree of
Bachelor of Laws from Columbia University in 1869, and
practiced twelve years in Kansas City, Mo., being a member
of the firm of Brown, Case & Wright, attorneys and real
estate agents. Although successful in his profession, he
broke down completely in health and had ever since been
an invalid, having also for a few years past been almost
blind. Until about three years ago, he continued his real
estate business, as he was able, and since had traveled on
the Pacific Coast and elsewhere with the hope of benefit-
ing his health. He became dangerously ill about three
months before his death, which occurred at his home in
Kansas City, November 11, 191 1, in his 73d year. He had
been a member of the Second Presbyterian Church since
settling in that city.

Mr. Wright married in Kansas City, December 10, 1885,
Anna C, daughter of William B. and Margaret Keill, who
survives him. They had no children.

1866

Darius Parmalee Sackett, son of Clark Sackett, a
soldier in the War of 1812 from Warren, Conn., and
Cynthia (Aiken) Sackett, was born at Tallmadge, O., Sep-
tember 22, 1842. He was fitted for college at Western
Reserve Academy, and was a student in Western Reserve
University during Freshman year, joining his class at Yale
at the beginning of Sophomore year.

The year after graduation he returned to New Haven
for Graduate study, the next two years taught at Genesee
Academy, N. Y., and was then principal of Leicester
(Mass.) Academy three years, and of Hopkins Academy,
Oakland, Cal. For a time he engaged in stock raising, at
Santa Barbara, but about 1876 established the Sackett

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School in Oakland to prepare boys for college. This he
conducted for fifteen years, removing in 1896 to Brooklyn,
N. Y., and having a business connection for eighteen
years with the Charles Scribner's Sons' publishing house.

Mr. Sackett died of cerebral thrombosis, after an illness
of three months, at New Hartford, N. Y., the home of
his daughter, April 1, 1912, in the 70th year of his age.

He married at Albion, Mich., January 15, 1874, Emma
Chittenden Fitch, daughter of Andrew Mason Fitch and
Cornelia Hooker (Chittenden) Fitch, who survives him
with their only daughter.

1867

George Cotton Brainerd, son of Joseph Hungerford
Brainerd (B.A. Yale 1822) and Fanny (Partridge) Brain-
erd, was born November 23, 1845, in St. Albans, Vt.
His father was a deacon of the Congregational church
there forty years, a lawyer, and County Clerk of Franklin
County, Vt., thirty-eight years. On the maternal side he %
was a great-grandson of Rev. Joseph Lyman, D.D. (B.A.
Yale 1767), and a descendant of Rev. John Cotton of
Boston.

After graduation he taught school a year at Easton,
Conn., then spent a few months in the West, and returning
East began the study of law in St. Albans. In 1869 he
entered the Harvard Law School, and received the degree
of Bachelor of Laws there in 1871. The same year he
was admitted to the bar of Vermont, and the following
year to that of New York state. Taking up his residence
in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1871, he practiced his profession in
that city until 1880, and after that in New York City.
He was counsel and one of the directors of the Brooklyn
Sunday School Union, counsel of the Foreign Sunday
School Association, and a member of the boards of the
Brooklyn Association for the Improvement of the Condi-
tion of the Poor and the New York Seamen's Friend

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Society. In 1892 he was a Republican candidate for the
General Assembly.

He was a member of the Church of the Pilgrims, more
than twenty years a teacher in its Chapel Sunday School,
and two years superintendent of the Church school.

In February, 1907, an attack of cerebral hemorrhage
removed him from active life. He died at his home in
Brooklyn, January 8, 19 12, in the 67th year of his age,
and was buried at St. Albans, Vt. He never married.
His brother (B.A. Univ. Vt. 1862) died in prison in
Andersonville, Ga., in 1864, but a sister survives him.

Orlando Metcalf Harper, son of John and Lydia E.
(Metcalf) Harper, was born September 17, 1846, in Pitts-
burgh, Pa. He entered college after two years in the
University of Western Pennsylvania, now the University
of Pittsburgh, but left New Haven in March, 1865, on
account of a permanent injury to his eyes. In 1892,
however, he received from Yale the honorary degree of
* Master of Arts, and was then also enrolled with his class.

After leaving college he was for a time on the staff of
a Pittsburgh newspaper, but his life was chiefly given to
business. For nineteen years he was a manufacturer of
cotton goods in Pittsburgh, becoming treasurer and later
president of the Eagle Cotton Mills Co. of that city, and
of Madison, Ind. He was a director of the Bank of
Pittsburgh, and of the Pittsburgh & Allegheny Suspension
Bridge Co. In 1888 he established a cotton commission
business in New York City, and was president of the
Merchants Reliance Co., and a trustee of the Birkbeck
Investment Savings and Loan Co.

Mr. Harper died at the home of his daughter in Summit,
.N. J., January 14, 1912, at the age of 65 years.

He married in Philadelphia, Pa., November 22, 1877,
Kathleen T., daughter of Dr. John Livingston Ludlow
(B.A. Univ. Pa. 1838) and Mary A. (Rozet) Livingston,
who survives him with their two daughters.

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1 868

Coburn Dewees Berry, son of William Tyler Berry, a
book publisher, and Mary (Tannehill) Berry, was born
October 27, 1844, in Nashville, Tenn. He spent the year
1863-64 in the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven.

After graduation he returned to Nashville and studied
law with Hon. Edmund Baxter, and entered the firm of
McCampbell, McEwen & Marshall. Mr. Marshall retired
in 1 87 1, and the firm became McCampbell, McEwen,
Berry & Lea. This firm was dissolved in 1875, and since
then Mr. Berry had built up a large practice by himself,
mainly in chancery. He had been a trustee of the Uni-
versity of Nashville since 1888, and was chairman of the
Montgomery Bell Academy commission.

Mr. Berry had come North to see his son, John Kirkman
Berry (B.A. Yale 1869), at his summer home in Greenwich,
Conn., and while visiting his classmate, Samuel H. Wheeler,
in Fairfield, Conn., died suddenly there, just after returning
from a ride, September 13, 191 1. He was in his 67th
year.

He married, at Nashville, October 29, 1873, Amanda
McNairy, daughter of John and Catherine (McNairy)
Kirkman, who survives him with two of their four sons
and a daughter. One of them received the degree of
Bachelor of Arts from Yale in 1899, and the other was a
member of the class of 1904 in the Sheffield Scientific
School. Admiral Albert Berry, United States Navy,
retired, is a brother.

Charles Page, son of Dr. Thomas and Ann Maria
(Liljewalch) Page, was born in Valparaiso, Chile, March
12, 1847. He was prepared for college in West Haver-
ford, Pa., by Rev. James Gilbourne Lyons, and joined the
class at the beginning of Sophomore year.

After graduation he spent fourteen months in Europe,
attending during that time law lectures at the Universities

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of Brussels and Berlin. On his return to the United States
he went to California and continued his law studies in
San Francisco in the office of Patterson & Stowe, and was
admitted to the bar in April, 1872. Since then he had
been in successful practice, and was widely known in his
specialty of admiralty law.

Mr. Page died of pneumonia at a hospital in San Fran-
cisco, February 26, 191 2, in his 65th year. His brother,
a member of the class of 1864, died the preceding
November.

He married in San Francisco, September 12, 1877, Sallie
Heath Myers, daughter of General William Myers, of the
United States Army, who survives him with two sons, the
elder, Charles R., a graduate of the College in 1900.

Mr. Page was one of the founders of the Yale Alumni
Association for the Northern District of California
(formerly Central California) and left a generous bequest
to the University through the Alumni Fund.

Stephen Pierson, son of Edward and Phebe Elizabeth
(Guerin) Pierson, was born November 8, 1844, in Morris-
town, N. J., and was fitted for college at Morris Academy
there.

He entered college with the class of 1865 but left at the
close of Freshman year to join the army, enlisting as a
private in the 27th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, a nine-
months regiment. He served in the Fredericksburg cam-
paign and in Kentucky and was mustered out as second
lieutenant. He soon reenlisted as sergeant-major in the
33d New Jersey Volunteers, served in the campaign about
Chattanooga, and was with General Sherman on his march
to the sea, and in the Carolinas. He was wounded at the
battle of Pine Knob, Ga., but continued with his regiment
to the end of the war. He was promoted to the rank
of adjutant, and was subsequently brevetted captain and
major for gallant conduct.

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Returning to college he was with the class of 1868 about
a year, and in 1888 received the degree of Master of Arts
with enrollment in his class. On leaving college he entered
the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia Uni-
versity), received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in
1869, and after a term as house physician in Bellevue Hos-
pital, began practice in Boonton, N. J., in 1870. Three
years later he returned to Morristown, where he became a
leading physician, and was also active in measures for the
general welfare of the community. He served for a time
on the State Board of Education, and was for over twenty
years a member of the Morristown Board of Education,
and for some time its president. In 1858 he united with
the First Presbyterian Church, of which he was later a trus-
tee and elder. He was vice-president of the Washington
Association of New Jersey, also a director of the Morris
Aqueduct Company. Since its opening in 1892 he had
been medical director of All Souls Hospital.

Dr. Pierson died of heart disease at Morristown, August
10, 191 1, in his 67th year, after four years of ill health.

He married at Morristown, September 13, 1870, Amelia
Thompson Cary, daughter of Silas D. Cary, and had
two sons, both of whom are deceased. Mrs. Pierson died
September 17, 1894. Two brothers, one of them a
physician (M.D. Columbia 1881), and a sister survive him.

James Trimble, son of John and Margaret (Mc.Ewen)
Trimble, was born September 27, 1845, in Nashville, Tenn.
He finished his preparation for college with his classmate
Berry in the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven.

After graduation he studied law in his father's office in
Nashville, and after his admission to the bar in May, 1869,
practiced his profession there. From April, 1871, to October,
1880, he was United States Circuit Court Commissioner for
the Middle District of Tennessee, and from the spring of
1874 to March, 1879, was Special United States Commis-

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sioner for the Court of Claims for the same district. In
1881-82 he was a member of the Tennessee House of
Representatives, and in 1887-88 of the State Senate.

Mr. Trimble died suddenly of heart failure at his home
in Nashville, August 6, 191 1, in his 66th year. He was a
member of Christ Episcopal Church.

He married in Nashville, October 26, 1876, Letitia T.,
daughter of A. V. S. and Eliza (Trimble) Lindsley, who
died in 1894, leaving one son, another son and a daughter
having died in infancy. He married in Nashville for his
second wife, February 12, 1896, Marina Turner Woods,
daughter of Robert F. and Marina (Cheatham) Woods.

1869

Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, younger son of Richard and
Susan (Atwater) Bagg, was born in West Springfield,
Mass., December 24, 1846. He was a nephew of Wyllys
Atwater (B.A. Yale 1843) and of Rev. Lyman Hotchkiss
Atwater, D.D., LL.D. (B.A. Yale 1831), who was for nearly
thirty years Professor in Princeton University and for nine
years the principal editor of the Princeton Review.

He was prepared for college at Williston Seminary, and
while there wrote his first newspaper article, which was
printed in the Springfield Republican in June, 1864.

While in college he was an editor of the Yale Literary
Magazine, to the first thirty-three volumes of which he made
an index (1836- 1868), and at graduation was the Class
Poet and one of the Class Historians.

The year after graduation he spent at home writing
"Four Years at Yale, by a Graduate of '69," and from
September, 1870, to July, 1871, he was in New Haven super-
vising the printing of the book and also editing the weekly
College Courant. During this time he wrote a pamphlet
on "Yale and Harvard Boat Racing," 1871. In October,
1 87 1, he went abroad for a general tour, remaining until
the following July. From April to October, 1873, he was

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assistant news editor of the New York Evening Post, after
which his headquarters were again in West Springfield for
two years. During this period he devoted considerable
time to genealogical research and the study of local history.
From November, 1875, t0 May, 1876, he was again in
Europe, living most of the time in London. September 1,
1876, he removed to New York, and until October, 1882,
contributed a weekly "College Chronicle" to the New
York World. From the abbreviated form, "Col Chron,"
originated Karl Kron, the pseudonym under which he wrote
"Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle," 1887, a description
of his many long bicycle rides on his high wheel in this
country, Cuba, Canada, and England. From 1878 to 1883
while connected with the World, he was manager of the
Harvard-Yale Race at New London. He was greatly inter-
ested in boating matters, and wrote "A History of Yale
Boating — Local and Intercollegiate," also "A History of
the Bully Club," which were printed in "Yale College:
A Sketch of its History," edited by William L. Kingsley
(B.A. Yale 1843), vo1- Hi l879- From 1889 to 1900 he
was librarian of the University Club in New York City,
and for thirty years lived on Washington Square. Leaving
New York in 1909 he returned to reside in the home in
which he was born in West Springfield. In 1910 he made
a tour around the world, spending seventy days in England,
riding his high bicycle.

Mr. Bagg died of paralysis after a few weeks' illness,
at his home in West Springfield, October 23, 191 1, in his
65th year. He was never married. His brother's widow
and her four daughters survive him.

Besides his chief writings mentioned above he published
pamphlets and articles on various subjects. He had worked
long on a Genealogy of the Bagg Family, but left it
unfinished.

Edward Ritzema DeGrove, son of Edward W. and
Hester (Strachan) DeGrove, was born May 5, 1848, in New

230 YALE COLLEGE

York City, but was prepared for college at General Russell's
Collegiate and Commercial Institute in New Haven and in
Woodbury, Conn.

After graduation he studied law in the office of Norwood
and Coggeshall and in the Columbia Law School, from
which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1871.
He also received the degree of Master of Arts in course
from Yale in 1872. He had been admitted to the bar in
November, 1870, and entering the office of J. H. & S. Riker,
was admitted to the firm, which later became DeGrove &
Riker. Since then he had practiced his profession con-
tinuously, giving his attention principally to real estate law.
He was a director of the Public Accountants' Association,
and a trustee of the Northeastern Dispensary and the Good
Samaritan Dispensary. He spent the summers of 1888 and
1892 in Europe.

While on a vacation at Lake Placid, N. Y., he died July
17, 191 1, at the age of 63 years.

Mr. DeGrove married in New York City, October 18,
1882, Miss Henriette C. Waters. She survives him with a
daughter.

Louis R. Ehrich, son of Joseph and Rebecca (Spor-
borg) Ehrich, was born in Albany, N. Y., January 23,
1849. ^e was fitted for college in the Hopkins Grammar
School, New Haven.

After graduation he traveled in Europe and studied in
the University of Berlin a year, and was then a member
of the dry goods firm of Ehrich Brothers in New York
City until 1886. In August, 1878, he suffered a slight
hemorrhage of the lungs, in consequence of which he spent
a year in southern Europe. In the spring of 1880 his
lungs were considered entirely healed, but the next fall
he had several hemorrhages. He visited Aiken, S. C, and
Europe, and from September, 1881, remained abroad for
four years, spending the first three winters in Mentone,

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231

France, and the last in Davos, Switzerland. Soon after
returning to New York in November, 1885, he found a
climate suited to his health in Colorado, and from 1889
to 1905 made his home in Colorado Springs, where he was
a leading citizen. He was vice-president of the Colorado
Springs & Manitou Street Railway Co., the Manitou
Mineral Water Co., and the Colorado City Land and
Improvement Co., a director of the First National Bank,
president of the Falcon Town and Land Co. and the
Board of Trade of Colorado Springs, also of the Mozart
Choral Society and the University Club of that city. He
was a delegate to the Gold Democratic Convention in 1896,
and was a national committeeman of his party. He was
a member of the executive committee of the Anti-Imperi-
alist League, and temporary chairman of the Third Party
Convention in Indianapolis in 1900.

He published in 1892 a volume on "The Question of
Silver," and wrote for The Arena of March, 1893, "A
Religion for all Time," for The Forum of December, 1894,
"Stock-Sharing as a Preventive of Labor Troubles," besides
other articles and addresses on economic and political
questions. He was a delegate to the International Free
Trade Congress in London in 1908, and in Antwerp in
1 910, and was president of the American Free Trade
League.

For many years he was a collector and dealer in old
paintings, and in this capacity had earned a reputation for
absolute honesty. As president of the Ehrich Galleries
in New York City he made an annual tour to Europe in
search of masterpieces of all schools. Many of those he
gathered were of great value, and he had imported an
especially large number of the works of the early Spanish
masters. A collection of old Dutch paintings which he
made was on exhibition in the galleries of the Yale School
of the Fine Arts previous to its sale in 1894. In memory
of the reunion of his class on its fortieth anniversary, he

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gave to the Art School a painting of the school of Paul
Veronese.

As he was about to return from his annual tour Mr.
Ehrich died suddenly of heart disease following an attack
of asthma in London, England, October 23, 191 1. He was
62 years of age.

He married in New York City, January 14, 1874, Hen-
rietta, daughter of David and Caroline (August) Minzes-
heimer, who, with two sons and two daughters, survives
him. One son and one daughter are deceased. One of the
sons graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1899.

1870

Edward Chapin, son of Edward Chapin (B.A. Yale
1 81 9), a lawyer of York, Pa., was born in that city
September 5, 1848. His mother was Sarah A. (McGrath)
Chapin. His grandfather, Rev. Calvin Chapin, D.D. (B.A.
Yale 1788), who was for over fifty years the minister at
Rocky Hill, Conn., and married the daughter of President
Jonathan Edwards, the younger (B.A. Princeton 1765) of
Union College, was a member of the Yale Corporation
from 1820 to 1846.

He was prepared for college in the Hopkins Grammar
School, New Haven.

After graduation he studied law, was admitted to the
bar in 1872, and thereafter steadily practiced his profession
in his native place, where he died of sarcoma September
24, 191 1, at the age of 63 years. In May, 191 1, he
suffered the amputation of an arm. Since 1881 he had
been secretary of the York Agricultural Society, and was
for fifteen years president of the York Club. He was
also a member of other social organizations, but withdrew
from them all in 1907.

He married, October 22, 1874, Lucy Helena, daughter of
Henry A. and Henrietta (Beeler) Hantz, of York, who

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died May 5, 1910. A daughter (B.A. Bryn Mawr 1896)
survives him. His sister was the wife of Edward J.
Evans (B.A. Yale 1857).

Jotham Henry Cummings, son of John and Lucy A.
(Hastings) Cummings, was born in Worcester, Mass.,
April 1, 1847. He was prepared for college at the
Worcester High School. In Senior year he was one of
the editors of the Yale Literary Magazine.

Since graduation his life had been almost entirely
devoted to teaching. The first year after graduation he
taught at Betts Academy, Stamford, Conn., and the fol-
lowing year was principal of the High School at Fort
Wayne, Ind. For some time thereafter he was connected
with the subscription book business with James Betts, his
father-in-law, in Hartford, Conn., but in 1876 became
principal of the High School at Thompsonville, Conn.
In the summer of 1877 he took up the duties of superin-
tendent of schools and principal of the High School at
Sparta, Wise, and remained there six years. During the
next five years he held the same positions at Anoka, Minn.,
and for two years following at Moorhead, Minn. Increas-
ing deafness forced him to give up teaching, and since
about 1900 he had lived at Rush City, Minn., engaged in
farming until disabled by paralysis in 1906. He died there
February 28, 191 2, at the age of 64 years.

Mr. Cummings married at Stamford, Conn., July 6, 1871,
Mary Amelia, daughter of James and Amelia D'Autremont
(Lockwood) Betts. While he was in Sparta she became
hopelessly deranged, and in 1892, while he was teaching in
South Dakota, he was divorced from her. In July, 1893,
he married Minnie A. Huntington, who survives him with
an adopted child.

Ira Emory Forbes, son of Henry and Adelia A. Forbes,
was born in Coventry, Conn., January 18, 1843.

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Before entering college he served through the Civil War,
enlisting July 21, 1862, in the Sixteenth Connecticut Regi-
ment, of which he became color corporal. After a long
struggle the Northern force which included his regiment
was defeated at Plymouth, N. C, April 20, 1864, but before
being made prisoner, he aided under a galling fire in saving
the colors of his regiment. These were divided in pieces
among the men and carried with them into captivity.
After the war the pieces still in existence were collected
and mounted. They were carried on a standard by Mr.
Forbes in a procession of veterans on Battle Flag Day,
September 17, 1879, and deposited in the Capitol in
Hartford.

For seven months he was confined in prison at Ander-
sonville, Ga., and Florence, S. C, after which he was under
parole in the hospital of the NavaL Academy at Annapolis.
In June, 1865, he was discharged from the army, but
remained for a time in the work of the Sanitary Commission
at Newbern, N. C.

After the war he finished his preparation for college with
William A. Magill (B.A. Yale 1858) in Old Lyme, Conn.

Upon graduation he spent a year in the Yale Divinity
School, the following year taught in the Collegiate and
Commercial Institute of General William H. Russell (B.A.
Yale 1833) in New Haven, and was then engaged in news-
paper and literary work for over thirty years. He was
at first with the Springfield (Mass.) Union two years, an
editor of the Hartford Evening Post until 1890, then asso-
ciate editor of the TEtna, issued by the iEtna Life Insur-
ance Company, subsequently associated in the publication
of Hayderis Insurance Journal, and then on the city staff
of the Hartford Times. While connected with the Hart-
ford Evening Post he originated the "Annual Biographies
of the Connecticut Legislature" published for several years
from 1879. He was at one time Hartford correspondent

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of the New York Times, and wrote much on Connecticut's
part in the Civil War campaigns.

He died of diabetes, from which he had suffered for
nearly thirteen years, November 14, 191 1, at the Soldiers'
Home at Noroton, Conn. He was 68 years of age. He
was a member of the Center (Congregational) Church in
Hartford.

He married in New Haven, Conn., July 18, 1872, Sarah
Rhoda Short, a native of England, and daughter of Mrs.
Edward Grinnell. She survives him. They had no
children.

Edwin Augustus Lewis, son of Samuel J. Lewis, who
was president of the Goodyear Rubber Co., and Mary
Elizabeth (Lewis) Lewis, was born in Naugatuck, Conn.,
October 5, 1847. His mother died when he was three years
old and his father when he was ten. After two years at
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., he finished his college
preparation at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.

On graduation from college he spent a year in travel
and made a circuit of the world. In the fall of 1871 he
entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia
University), continued his studies in New Haven, and
graduated from the University and Bellevue Hospital Medi-
cal College in 1873, the same year also receiving the degree
of Master of Arts in course from Yale. He was then for
two years on the staff of Bellevue Hospital, after which he
practiced his profession in Brooklyn, N. Y., twenty years,
becoming especially known for his skill in surgery. Dur-
ing the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and continuing
until 1895 he was bridge surgeon, and was also police sur-
geon and surgeon of the fire department for two years
each. For ten years he was surgeon of the Twenty-third
regiment, New York National Guard, with rank of major.
He was for years visiting surgeon at the Brooklyn, Long
Island College, St. Mary's, and King's County Hospitals,

236 YALE COLLEGE

surgeon of the Brooklyn City Dispensary, and consulting
surgeon of the Eastern District Hospital. Feeling the
necessity of relief from ceaseless duties he retired from
practice in 1895, and had resided in Englewood, N. J.
His health failed in the summer of 1906, and he died after
five years of illness from paralysis, July 17, 191 1, in the
64th year of his age.

He married in New Haven, June 17, 1875, Emma Susan,
daughter of John Pierson and Elizabeth C. (Augur) Tuttle,
who with a son (B.A. Yale 1899) and daughter survives
him.

1871

William Morris, son of George and Mary (Weeks)
Morris, was born September 14, 1850, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He was prepared for college in that city at the Saunders
Institute.

In January following his graduation he entered the office
of John C. Bullit (B.A. Central Univ. Ky. 1842), as a law
student. In November, 1874, he was admitted to prac-
tice in Philadelphia County, and later to the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania and the United States courts. Since 1902
he had been associated with Winfield S. Walker, Esq., in
Philadelphia. He was an active worker for political
reform.

Mr. Morris died of pneumonia, January 9, 1912, in
Philadelphia. He was 61 years of age, and unmarried.
The news of his sudden death was such a shock to his
father, who was in Florida, that he also died two days later,
and both were buried at the same time in West Laurel Hill
Cemetery, Philadelphia.

Arthur Ryerson, son of Joseph Turner and Ellen Grif-
fin (Larned) Ryerson, was born in Chicago, 111., January
12, 185 1. He was prepared for college at General Russell's
Collegiate and Commercial Institute in New Haven, Conn.

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237

After graduation from college he received the degree of
Bachelor of Laws from the University of Chicago in
1872 and from Columbia University in 1873, after a year
of study in each, and then practiced law in Chicago until
1900, being at one time a member of the firm of Isham,
Lincoln, Barry & Ryerson. He was for twenty years
president and trustee of St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago,
twelve years a member of the General Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, and eighteen years a member
of. the general Board of Missions of that church.

He spent much time at his country place at Springfield
Center, Otsego County, N. Y., but had frequently been
abroad, residing in England, France, and Italy. He lost
his life in the Titanic disaster, April 15, 1912. He was 61
years of age.

He married, January 31, 1889, Emily, daughter of John
Borie, of Philadelphia, and had five children. His son,
Arthur Larned Ryerson, a member of the Sophomore class
at Yale, was killed during the Easter recess in an automo-
bile accident near Philadelphia and the parents and three
of their children were hurrying home on the Titanic. Mrs.
Ryerson and the children were saved. A brother, Edward
Larned Ryerson, graduated from the Sheffield Scientific
School in 1876.

George Randolph Stelle, son of Samuel Manning and
Mary Perkins (Shotwell) Stelle, was born September 15,
1849, at Pontiac, Mich. He was fitted for college at
Flushing, L. I., N. Y., under E. A. Fairchild.

Soon after graduation he entered the wholesale clothing
house of Stelle, Yost & Co. of St. Louis as traveling sales-
man, later was with Stelle, Marsh & Co. of Chicago and
Silver City, Colo., also with the Charles P. Kellogg Co. of
Chicago, and since then had been with Browning, King &
Co. of New York City.

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He was married twice, first to Miss Reid, and June 20,
1882, to Miss Cass Cheswell, of Wheeling, Va., both dying
without issue.

Mr. Stelle died suddenly, probably from apoplexy,
November 17, 191 1, while on the way to visit a friend.
He was walking over Watchung Mountain, near Plainfield,
N. J. He was 62 years of age. When not traveling he had
recently made his home with an aunt, Miss Elizabeth
Shotwell, in Plainfield.

1872

Hiram Yoder Kaufman, son of Jacob and Margaret
(Yoder) Kaufman, was born June 4, 1850, in Oley, Berks
County, Pa. He was fitted for college at the Hudson River
Institute, Claverack, N. Y.

After graduation he taught a year at Amenia (N. Y.)
Seminary, and then entered the law office of Horace A.
Yundt in Reading, Pa. He was admitted to the bar
November 9, 1874 and practiced his profession success-
fully in Reading for over twenty years. From 1881 to
1883 he was district attorney for Berks County. For some
time he was interested in the manufacture of pig iron at
Jefferson Furnace, Schuylkill County, and of rolled iron
at the Blandon Rolling Mill, Berks County. He later
moved to Philadelphia and had since been claim agent for
the Philadelphia Transit Co.

Mr. Kaufman died at his home in Philadelphia, January
2^, 1912, at the age of 61 years.

He married in Jersey City, N. J., June 3, 1880, Ada
Louise Martin, who survives him with their two daughters.

1873

Philip Henry Adee, son of George Townsend Adee,
a well known merchant and vice-president of the Bank
of Commerce in New York City, was born August 19,

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185 1, at Westchester, N. Y. His mother was Ellen Louise,
daughter of Philip Henry, a veteran of the war of 18 12
and a New York merchant.

He was fitted for college in Westchester in the private
school of Brainard T. Harrington (B.A. Amherst 1852).
Entering college with the class of 1871, he remained till
the end of Sophomore year; was a member of 1872 two
terms, and joined 1873 at the beginning of Junior year.

After graduation he spent a year in the study of dynam-
ical engineering in the Sheffield Scientific School and then
entered Columbia Law School, receiving the degree of
Bachelor of Laws there in 1876. Since then he had prac-
ticed his profession in New York. He was associated in
business with Benjamin D. Silliman, LL.D. (B.A. Yale
1824), from January, 1877, until the latter's death in
January, 1901, and since January, 1910, had been head of
the firm of Adee & Connell. He was also interested in
the oil fields of Mexico.

For many years he was a member and clerk of the vestry
of St. Peter's Church, Westchester. He was a member of
the American Museum of Natural History.

Mr. Adee died of pneumonia at his home in New York,
May 28, 1912. He was in his 61 st year, and unmarried.

His brother and classmate, Frederic William Adee, died
in 1900. Three other brothers, George A. Adee (died
1908), Edwin M. Adee, and Ernest R. Adee (died 1903),
were graduates of the College in the classes of 1867, 1881,
and 1885, respectively.

John Oxenbridge Heald, son of Daniel Addison Heald
(B.A. Yale 1841), who was president of the Home Insur-
ance Co. of New York from 1888 till his death in 1900,
was born at Ludlow, Vt, October 18, 1850. His mother
was Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. Reuben Washburn
(B.A. Dartmouth 1808) and Hannah Blaney (Thacher)
Washburn, and sister of Governor Peter Thacher Washburn

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(B.A. Dartmouth 1835) of Vermont. His maternal grand-
mother was the great-granddaughter of Oxenbridge
Thacher (B.A. Harvard 1738), a lawyer of Boston,
distinguished in the political life before the Revolution.

His home since childhood had been in Orange, N. J.
He was prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter,
N. H.

After graduation he spent a year in the study of chem-
istry and metallurgy in the Sheffield Scientific School, and
then began the study of law in the office of Hon. Edward
Patterson, LL.D., in New York City, and in October, 1875,
entered the Columbia Law School. A year later he was
admitted to the bar, and practiced by himself for three
years, but in November, 1879, formed a partnership with
George Richards (B.A. Yale 1872), under the name of
Richards & Heald, which continued to the end of his life.
Although engaged in general practice, they gave much
attention to insurance and taxation. His partner's brother,
Dickinson W. Richards (B.A. Yale 1880), was admitted to
the firm in 1892, and a number of other Yale men were
with them as clerks or students. For nineteen years his
office was at 62 Wall street, and since 1898 had been at
141 Broadway.

During his Senior year in college he was manager of
the Glee Club, and since graduation his activity in musical
matters had continued. For twenty years he was a member
of the Mendelssohn Glee Club of New York, and was the
founder and since 1883 president of the Orange (N. J.)
Mendelssohn Union. He was joint editor of the revised
edition of "Carmina Yalensia," and in order to improve
the character of college music, for several years he
annually offered a prize for new college songs of merit,
"Mother of Men,' with words written by W. Brian
Hooker (B.A. Yale 1902) and music by Seth D. Bingham
(B.A. Yale 1904), winning the prize in 1907. He was
president of the Yale Alumni Musical Association, which

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has been of much service in connection with the Graduate
dinners. In other matters of Yale life he also showed a
warm interest, having aided in establishing the Yale Alumni
Association of Essex County, N. J., of which he was
president from 1891 to 1895. He was also a member of the
Alumni Advisory Board from its organization in 1906 to his
death, and was chosen a member of its executive committee
in June, 191 1. He was one of the Governors of the Yale
Publishing Association, publishing the Yale Alumni Weekly
and Yale Review.

In 1899 he was the Republican nominee for mayor of
Orange, but did not entirely overcome the usual strong
Democratic majority. Since 1901 he had been president
of the Second National Bank of Orange, and of the Music
Hall Association of that city. He was also president of
the New England Society of Orange.

Mr. Heald died from hemorrhage of the brain at his
home in Orange, October 10, 191 1. He was in his 61st
year. In his memory a classroom in Wright Memorial
Hall has been given by classmates.

He married, October 26, 1876, Gertrude A., daughter of
William H. H. and Julia S. (Wight) Gardner, of New
Haven, Conn., who died of consumption July 29, 1877,
leaving a son who lived but a month. September 3, 1885,
he married at the home in Philadelphia of her uncle,
George A. Dadmun, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph E.
and Hannah (Estabrook) Manning, formerly of Fitch-
burg, Mass. She survives him with a son, who is a
member of the Senior class in College, and two daughters,
one of them a graduate of Vassar College in 1908. A
brother, who was a member of the class of 1880, died
during his Senior year.

1874

Edward Lewis Curtis, son of Rev. William Stanton
Curtis, D.D. (B.A. Illinois Coll. 1838) and Martha (Leach)

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Curtis, was born at Ann Arbor, Mich., October 13, 1853.
His father, at that time pastor in Ann Arbor, had finished
his theological course at Yale in 1841, was Professor of
Philosophy in Hamilton College at Clinton, N. Y., from
1855 to 1863, and for six years president of Knox College,
then pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church at
Rockford, 111. His mother was one of the earliest students
and later an instructor at Mt. Holyoke Seminary. The son
was prepared for college at the Elmira (N. Y.) Free Acad-
emy, and when his father settled in Rockford entered
Beloit College. He remained there two years, and entered
his class at Yale at the beginning of Sophomore year. He
became an editor of the Yale Courant and won a Townsend
prize.

During the year after graduation he taught in the High
School at Pittsfield, 111., and did some preaching in con-
nection with revival services there. The following year he
taught in a Presbyterian institute for colored youth (now
Biddle University), at Charlotte, N. C. While there he
determined to enter the service of the ministry, and in 1876
began his preparation at Union Theological Seminary, New
York City. During two years of his course in the Seminary
he roomed with his college classmate Rev. Hollis B. Frissell,
D.D., LL.D., now principal of Hampton Institute. In his
summer vacation he preached in the woods of New Bruns-
wick at Baillie and Tower Hill. Becoming deeply interested
in Old Testament studies, his work in this and other
branches of study brought him at graduation a fellowship
for study abroad. Upon this he traveled and studied three
semesters in the University of Berlin, but an illness of two
months in a hospital prevented his obtaining a degree there.
When his scholarly work had made him known in America,
the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred
upon him by Hanover College, Indiana, in 1886, and that
of Doctor of Divinity by Yale University in 1891.

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On his return to America in 1881 he became Instructor
in Old Testament Literature and Exegesis in McCormick
Theological Seminary, Assistant Professor of the same sub-
ject in 1882, and Professor in 1886. In this professorship
he continued until 1891, when he accepted an appointment
in the Yale Divinity School as Holmes Professor of the
Hebrew Language and Literature. To this was added in
1905 the office of acting Dean of the School, which he filled
with marked success from the departure of Dean Sanders
until a permanent appointment was made in Dean Brown.

November 19, 1883, he was ordained by the Presbytery
of Chicago, and while at McCormick Seminary preached
most of the time on Sundays, but in New Haven he preached
less frequently, conducting however for years the business
men's Bible class in the Center Church, of which he was
a deacon and also at times acting pastor.

Besides contributing to the Presbyterian Review, Old and
New Testament Studies, and similar periodicals, he wrote
many important articles for Hastings's "Dictionary of the
Bible" and in 1910, with the aid of his pupil, Rev. Dr.
Albert A. Madsen (B.D. Yale 1903), completed his "Critical
and Exegetical Commentary on First and Second Chron-
icles," in the "International Critical Commentary," and
nearly finished a commentary on the "Book of Judges" for
the "Bible for Home and School" series.

The summer of 1900 he spent abroad with his family,
and, always fond of outdoor activities, tramped the follow-
ing spring with his children in Switzerland. There he
strained his heart, already weakened probably by hard
bicycle rides, and his work was afterward done under dis-
couraging limitations. In 1906 partial paralysis, due to
embolism, greatly diminished his eyesight, but he continued
his work until the day before his death. He had been
spending the summer at Castine, Me., and starting home,
died of angina pectoris on board the steamer just outside
of Rockland Harbor, August 26, 191 1. He was in his 58th

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year. The funeral was held at the Center Church in New
Haven and the interment was at his old home in Rockford.

Professor Curtis married, at Ottumwa, la., April 2J,
1882, Laura Elizabeth Ely, a graduate of Rockford (111.)
Seminary (now College), daughter of Rev. Ben Ezra Stiles
Ely, D.D., a Presbyterian clergyman of Des Moines, la.,
and Elizabeth Eudora (McElary) Ely, and granddaughter
of Rev. Ezra Stiles Ely (B.A. Yale 1804), who was the
son of Rev. Zebulon Ely (B.A. Yale 1779). They had
three daughters (B.A. Vassar 1905, B.A. Smith 1906, and
B.A. Vassar 19 if, respectively), and one son (B.A. Yale
1910), who with Mrs. Curtis survive him.

A memorial service was held at the Divinity School
October 30, with an address by Professor Walker.

Roderic Williams, son of Roderic and Mary Ann
Williams, was born August 13, 1852, in Minersville, Pa.,
but entered college from Cincinnati, O., where he was
prepared in the Woodward High School.

For two years after graduation he taught in a private
school in Helena, Ark., and then returned to Cincinnati,
where he was in business for himself until 1882. Since
that date he had been a resident of Denver, Colo., where he
was corresponding clerk and adjuster of claims for the state
of Colorado for the Travelers Insurance Co. until 1893,
and since then a life insurance solicitor and promoter of
real estate.

Mr. Williams died at Denver, November 3, 191 1, at the
age of 59 years. He was unmarried.

1875
Edwin Henry Weatherbee, son of Henry M. and Mary
(Angell) Weatherbee, was born in New York City, Sep-
tember 23, 1852. He was prepared for college at Amenia
(N. Y.) Seminary and the Hopkins Grammar School, New
Haven.

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After graduation he was principal of the High School
at Chatham, N. Y., two years, and then entered the Colum-
bia Law School, from which he received the degree of
Bachelor of Laws in May, 1879. He was then for three
years assistant in the office of the United States District
Attorney, General Stewart L. Woodford, LL.D. (B.A. Yale

1854).

November 15, 1881, he married in New York City, Amy
Henrietta, daughter of James M. and Henrietta (Arnold)
Constable, and granddaughter of Aaron Arnold, founder
of the dry goods firm of Arnold, Constable & Co., of that
city. In January, 1882, he entered that business, of which
he later became the head.

He was deeply interested in the progress and welfare of
the Young Men's Christian Association, and was a director
of the New York Association from January, 1888, until his
death. He was also for many years a member of the
executive committee and other standing committees of the
board, of various building committees, and of the special
committee on the French branch.

Mr. Weatherbee died of apoplexy at his home in New
York City, February 11, 1912. He was in the 60th year
of his age. He was a member of the Church of the
Incarnation.

Mrs. Weatherbee, a son (B.A. Yale 1908), and two
daughters survive him.

1876

Edward Smith Clarke, son of Hon. Freeman Clarke,
member of Congress in 1862 and from 1871 to 1875
comptroller of the currency under President Lincoln, and
Henrietta Jacquelina (Ward) Clarke, was born December
25, 1853, in Rochester, N. Y. He was prepared for college
at the Wilson Grammar School in that city.

After graduation he spent three years in Europe in
travel and attending lectures at the Universities of Heidel-

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berg, Berlin, and Strassburg. In October, 1879, he entered
the Columbia Law School, from which he received the
degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1881. He was admitted
to the bar and practiced law two years in Rochester, and
was then made secretary and treasurer of the Atlanta (Ga.)
Cotton Mills. After spending three years in Atlanta he
returned to Rochester in May, 1886, and in April, 1889,
became a member of the firm of Atwater, Armstrong &
Clarke, wholesale and retail dealers in lumber and manu-
facturers of boxes. In June, 1896, this partnership was
dissolved, and he organized the Rochester Box and Lumber
Co., of which he was president and treasurer.

Mr. Clarke died suddenly of heart failure after a week's
illness at his home in Rochester, N. Y., August 30, 191 1, in
his 58th year.

He married September 1, 1884, Sarah Emmons Breck,
daughter of Martin Burr and Susan Emmons (Watts)
Breck of Rochester. She survives him, also a brother and
sister. They had no children.

Robert Brown Fleming, son of William Edgar and
Mary Ann (Rabnot) Fleming, was born in New York City,
October 22, 1854. He was fitted for college at the Has-
brouck Institute in Jersey City.

After graduation he spent about a year each in Europe
and in the West, three years in farming in Orange County,
N. Y., and a year in the same occupation in Bloomingburgh,
Sullivan County, N. Y. In 1883 he engaged in the bank-
ing and brokerage business in New York City with his
brothers, under the name of William G. Fleming & Co.
His brother and senior partner died in January, 1906, and
in June following he became a member of the Stock
Exchange firm of Barrill & Stitt.

Mr. Fleming died of pneumonia at his home in New
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never married. He was the last of six brothers, but his
mother and a sister survive him. He was a trustee of the
Broadway Tabernacle (Congregational) Church.

Francis Augustus Leach, son of Augustus Mortimer
and Mary J. (Smith) Leach, was born April 8, 1854, at
Cuba, N. Y. He was fitted for college at the Hopkins
Grammar School, New Haven.

After graduation he was at first connected with F. E.
Smith & Co., millers of New York City and Brooklyn.
This firm closed its business in 1879, and ne tnen spent a
year in the Columbia Law School, completing his studies
in the office of D. W. Chamberlain, in Lyons, N. Y.

He was admitted to the bar of New York State in Buf-
falo, in June, 1881, and practiced his profession five years
in Lyons, which was then his father's home, and was attor-
ney for the Lyons National Bank. In 1887 he moved to
Kansas City, Mo., where he continued in practice with
much success, and was head of the firm of Leach, Day &
Green. He had been secretary of the Bar Association of
Kansas City.

He was deeply interested in municipal problems, and on
these and other subjects he frequently contributed articles
to the magazines. For the Yale Law Journal of December,
191 1, he wrote on "The Length of Judicial Opinions."
He was secretary of the Republican Congressional
Committee in the presidential campaign of 1900.

He was president of the Kansas City Yale Alumni Asso-
ciation in 1903-04 and since then secretary and treasurer
of the same, and was also treasurer of the Associated West-
ern Yale Clubs. He was a member of the First Congre-
gational Church, and for two years was president of the
Brotherhood of Men's Clubs.

Mr. Leach died of pneumonia at his home in Kansas
City, February 1, 1912, in his 58th year.

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He married at Lyons, N. Y., June 24, 1884, Marion,
daughter of William T. and Emma (Guiteau) Tinsley.
She survives him with their two daughters.

1877

George Edward Matthews, son of James Newson
Matthews and Harriet E. (Wells) Matthews, was born
March 17, 1855, in Westfield, N. Y., the home of his
mother's parents, but he spent his life in Buffalo, N. Y.
His father was a native of England, but settled in Buffalo in
1846. He was fitted for college in the Heathcote School
in Buffalo and by Rev. Theodore M. Bishop, D.D., but
before entering college spent two years in travel and in
acquiring knowledge of the printing business in the office
of the Commercial, of which his father was then editor and
part owner. During the college vacations he always
worked at some branch of the printing trades.

The year after graduation his father bought the Express,
and the son rose through various grades from clerk to
business manager, and was also successively telegraph
editor, city editor, and literary editor of the paper. He
gained a thorough knowledge of the mechanical and
business departments of a printing establishment, and
became treasurer of Matthews, Northrup & Co., the print-
ing branch of the business. Upon the death of his
father in December, 1888, the ownership of the Express
passed to the firm of George E. Matthews & Co., and in
1 90 1 this company and the Matthews-Northrup Works were
consolidated into the J. N.. Matthews Co. Of this George
E. Matthews was president as well as senior editor of
the paper.

In recent years he had been developing a noiseless type-
writer, and organized the company for its manufacture.
He was the inventor of the four-color "prismaprint"
process used in the Matthews-Northrup Works, and also

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patented a method of indexing- books and other devices.
He was at one time interested in the Buffalo Printing Ink
Works. For several years he was president of the Buffalo
Typothetae, and of the Buffalo Newspaper Publishers'
Association.

He was influential in the public interests of Buffalo,
notably in connection with the Pan-American Exposition
there in 1901 and independent especially in municipal
politics. He was active in the organization of the McKin-
ley League in 1896, and was a delegate to the National
Republican Convention which nominated Mr. McKinley
for President. After President McKinley's death he was
secretary of the McKinley Monument Commission.

Mr. Matthews died of angina pectoris at his summer
home on Grand Island, near Buffalo, June 11, 191 1, after
five years of ill health. He was 56 years of age.

He married in Buffalo, July 12, 1887, Mary Elizabeth,
daughter of George Hunt Burrows and Mary Elizabeth
(Cook) Burrows, who survives him with two sons and a
daughter. The elder son graduated from the Academical
Department in 1910.

1878

Charles Adam Feick, son of Nicholas and Regina
(Ohl) Feick, was born December 14, 1857, in Newark,
N. J., and was prepared for college in the High School
there.

After graduation he took the law course in Columbia
University, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws
therefrom in 1880, and studied with Hon. Charles S.
Titsworth. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar as
an attorney in 1881, and counselor in 1886, and soon
opened his own office in Newark. He had been successful
from the beginning of his practice, and became one of
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strong advocate of building and loan associations and was
a director of several of the Newark associations and
counsel of others.

Mr. Feick was one of the organizers of the John J.
Hill Bread Co. in 1899 and since then had been its
treasurer and counsel, and was financially interested in
other commercial enterprises. He was for three years a
member of the Newark Board of Education.

Mr. Feick had just returned from a three months' trip
abroad and was on his way with two friends to Lake
George, when he was crushed to death under his auto-
mobile, which was overturned in the attempt to avoid a
collision with a runaway team. The accident happened
September 30, 191 1, at Niverville, N. Y. He was 53
years of age.

He married at Newark, December 16, 1886, Bertha E.,
daughter of Benedict and Theodora Prieth, who survives
him with their twin son and daughter. The son graduated
from Princeton University in 1909, and the daughter from
Vassar College the same year.

Royal Corban Moodie, son of Robert and Augusta
Phebe (Blanchard) Moodie, was born June 19, 1852, at
Craftsbury, Vt. He was fitted for college in Williston
Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.

After graduation from college he took the course in
Auburn Theological Seminary, accepted a call to the First
Presbyterian Church at Los Gatos, Cal., and was ordained
there November 8, 1881. In 1889 he returned East and
from June of that year to December, 1898, was pastor of
the Congregational Church at North Craftsbury, Vt.
From 1894 to 1896 he was principal of the Craftsbury
Academy, and from 1890 to 1899 also a trustee of the
same. From January, 1899, to March, 1904, he was pastor
at West Tisbury, Mass., and then removed to California
again to live an outdoor life, and for about two years was

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in charge of the Presbyterian Church at Menlo Park with
improved health. In 1909 he came eastward to Nebraska,
first to Wismer and early in 191 1 to Blair, where he died
of anaemia, June 21, at the age of 59 years.

He married at North Craftsbury, Vt., May 18, 1881,
Carrie Augusta, daughter of Moses and Mary Ann (Blan-
chard) Root, and had two sons (the younger B.A. Yale
1903), who with Mrs. Moodie survive him.

He published 'The Centennial and Rededication of
the Congregational Church of North Craftsbury, Vt.,"
1877, a Manual of that church, 1897, a Catalogue of the
Craftsbury Academy Library, 1899, with a Supplement to
the same in 1905, and "Facts about Taft."

Edgar Heath cote Stone, son of Thomas Jefferson and
Alice Ann (Heathcote) Stone, was born in Mount Vernon,
la., November 17, 1854. His family afterward removed
to Sioux City, la., but he was fitted for college at Allen's
Academy, Lake Forest, 111.

Since graduation he had been engaged in banking, being
successively assistant cashier, cashier, and vice-president of
the First National Bank of Sioux City. He was also a
director of the Combination Bridge Co.

Mr. Stone died at Sioux City, December 5, 191 1. He
was 57 years of age.

He married at Des Moines, la., May 28, 1884, Lucia H.,
daughter of Hon. George Grover Wright, LL.D. (B.A.
Indiana Univ. 1839), former chief justice of Iowa and
United States senator, and Mary (Dibble) Wright. They
had no children, but brought up and educated two boys.

1879

Isaac Peck, son of Isaac and Abby Phelps (Beers)
Peck, was born January 15, 1858, at Flushing, L. I., N. Y.
He was prepared for college at Flushing Institute. His
mother was the daughter of Dr. Timothy Phelps Beers

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(B.A. Yale 1808), Professor of Obstetrics in the Yale
Medical School from 1830 to 1856, and the granddaughter
of Judge Isaac Mills (B.A. Yale 1786).

After graduation he spent a year in the College of
Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), and then
three years in the Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown,
Conn. He was ordained Deacon by Bishop Williams May
30, 1883, and worked about a year as a missionary in
Texas, with Laredo as a center. At San Antonio, in the
same state, he was ordained Priest by Bishop Elliott, April
9, 1884, but was soon compelled to seek a Northern
climate, and spent a year as rector of Trinity Church, Tilton,
N. H. The next year he was in charge of Emmanuel
Church at Anacostia (now in Washington), D. C, and the
two years following was again in New Hampshire, at All
Saints' Church, Littleton. From 1888 to 1892 he was
rector of St. Paul's Church, Kinderhook, N. Y., from
which he was called to Trinity Church, Roslyn, L. I., N. Y.
While there a new church and parish house were erected,
and he served acceptably about fourteen years. He then
resided for two years in Flushing, making, meantime, a
trip to England and northern Europe. In October, 1909,
he became rector of Trinity Church, Brooklyn, Conn., but
after a service of less than two years, died June 30, 191 1,
at the Day-Kimball Hospital in Putnam, Conn., after an
operation for abdominal trouble. He was 53 years of age.

He married in New York City, October 2, 1890, Mary
Constantia Smith Heyward, daughter of William Heyward,
a South Carolina planter, and Anna Louisa (Tobey)
Heyward. She survives him with a son.

1880

William Darius Bishop, son of William Darius Bishop
(B.A. Yale 1849) and Juua Ann (Tomlinson) Bishop, was
born in Bridgeport, Conn., December 16, 1857. His father
was a member of Congress from 1859 to 1861, president of

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253

the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.
from 1866 to 1879, and president of the Naugatuck
Railroad Co. from 1883 till his death in 1904.

He was prepared for college in New York City by a
private tutor.

The first few months after graduation he was in the
office of the superintendent of the Naugatuck Railroad Co.,
and after a trip to Europe was secretary of the Barnum &
Richardson Manufacturing Co. in Chicago for a few
months. In July, 1882, he returned to Bridgeport, and the
following October was made assistant purchasing agent
of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.
From March, 1883, to 1900 he was secretary of the
company, and was then a director till March, 1905.

In 1884 Mr. Bishop began the study of law with Daniel
Davenport (B.A. Yale 1873). He was admitted to the
bar in March, 1886, and became a member of the firm of
Stoddard, Bishop & Haviland. He retired from active
practice in October, 1900, but retained his interest in the
firm, the name of which was changed to Stoddard, Bishop
& Shelton, and in January, 1902, to Stoddard & Bishop.
Mr. Bishop had been at different times director of the
Pequonnock National Bank of Bridgeport, the Bridgeport
Hydraulic Co., and the Bridgeport Public Library, and
treasurer of the Bridgeport Organ Co. He was a
democratic candidate for member of congress in 1902.

During the last four years he had resided at Sea Cliff,
Long Island, N. Y., where he died January 23, 1912, after
a long illness from Bright's disease. He was 54 years of
age.

Mr. Bishop married in Chicago, February 21, 1882,
Susan Adele, daughter of Hon. Elihu Benjamin Washburn,
former United States Minister to France, and Adele (Gra-
tiot) Washburn, and had a daughter and son (B.A. Yale
191 1 ), who with their mother survive him. Three brothers
and one sister are also living, one of the brothers being a
graduate of the Yale Law School in 1890.

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David Collin Wells, son of Samuel James and Anna
(Collin) Wells, was born in Fayetteville, N. Y., Septem-
ber 23, 1858. He was prepared for college at Phillips
Academy, Andover, Mass.

After graduation he taught two years in the Indianapolis
Classical School, was then a student for a year in Union
Theological Seminary and two years in Andover Theolog-
ical Seminary, graduating from the latter in 1885. He
continued in the advanced class at Andover the next year
studying ethics, and the year following that traveled in
Europe, spending part of the time in study in Germany.
Since his return he had devoted himself to teaching. From
the fall of 1887 to 1890 he was an Instructor in German
and History in Phillips (Andover) Academy, and during
the next three years was Professor of History and Political
Science in Bowdoin College. He then went to Dartmouth
College, where he had been Professor of Sociology since
the establishment of that chair in 1893. He gained a posi-
tion of influence in his field of study and was a construc-
tive force in the civic and religious life of the community.
He was especially the friend of undergraduates, but was
a wise counselor in all questions before the faculty, and
willing always to bear more than his full share of
collegiate work.

He was a member of the Institut International de Soci-
ologie of Paris, the Washington Philosophical Society, the
executive committee of the American Sociological Society,
and an advisory editor of the American Journal of Sociol-
ogy. He wrote a number of articles for the Yale Review
and the Andover Review. At the memorial service for
Professor Sumner during Commencement week at Yale in
1910, Professor Wells gave the address on "Sumner the
Economist."

Professor Wells had been in failing health for three
years but continued his teaching and administrative work
till the last week of his life. He died of leukemia at his
home in Hanover, N. H., June II, 191 1, in his 53d year.

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255

He married at Andover, Mass., June 2, 1887, Elizabeth,
daughter of Henry and Julia (Doolittle) Tucker, of
Brooklyn, N. Y., and sister of Rev. William Jewett Tucker,
D.D. (LL.D. Yale 1895), formerly President of Dartmouth
College. She survives with a son, a member of the class
of 1913 in Dartmouth, and a daughter (B.A. Bryn Mawr
191 1 ). Two brothers, graduates of the Academical
Department of Yale in 1882 and 1885, are also living.

1882

Frederick Orren Darling, son of Charles Wesley and
Emily Frances (Squire) Darling, was born at Bethlehem,
N. Y., September 25, 1856. His father was a native of
Rowe, Mass., and a New York business man living at
Center Moriches, Long Island, till his death in 1904. He
entered college from Williston Seminary, Easthampton,
Mass., and was at first a member of the class of 1881, but
joined the class of 1882 in the spring of 1879.

For two years after graduation he was in Montana,
where he established the "T. D." ranch, which later
became the site of the town of Teedee, Custer County.
The next four years he was a commission agent for hydrau-
lic elevators and brick at Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn.,
and for a year or so was connected with Belding Brothers,
silk manufacturers in New York City. From 1889 to 1899
he was at Center Moriches, Long Island, where he was a
member of the Moriches Fuel Co. He then removed to
Hilthorpe Farm in Leyden, Mass., where, with the excep-
tion of the years 1906-09 spent in Detroit, he resided until
his death. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal
Church.

Mr. Darling died of double pneumonia at the Spring-
field (Mass.) Hospital, March 22, 1912. He was 55 years
of age. He was buried in Leyden.

He married at Brattlesboro, Vt., December 23, 1902,
Ada, daughter of Alba Augustus and Sophie Prince (Field)
Brann, who survives him without children.

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1883

Robert Cameron Rogers, son of Hon. Sherman Skinner
Rogers, former State senator from Buffalo, N. Y., was born
in that city, January 7, 1862. His mother was Christina
(Davenport) Rogers, and like his father was a native of
Bath, N. Y. He was fitted for college at the Briggs
Classical School in Buffalo.

The year after graduation he traveled in Europe, then
entered the law office of Rogers, Locke & Milburn in
Buffalo, and in 1885-86 studied in the Harvard Law School.
He did not continue in law, however, but engaged in literary
and newspaper work. He went to Santa Barbara, Cal.,
and in 1901 became editor of the Santa Barbara Morning
Press, and principal owner of the Morning Press Printing
and Publishing Co. He was a founder and vice-president
of the Central Bank. He had been appointed by Governor
Johnson a commissioner for the Pacific-Panama Exposition.
He had traveled extensively, having been twice around the
world and many times to Europe.

He was the author of several volumes of poems : "Wind
in the Clearing and other Poems," 1894, "For the King
and Other Poems," 1898, and "The Rosary and Other
Poems," 1906; and in prose "Old Dorset: Chronicles of a
New York Countryside," 1896, and "Will o' the Wasp:
Sea-yarn of the War of 1812," 1896. He wrote the dedi-
catory ode for the opening of the Pan-American Exposition
in Buffalo. His poem "The Rosary," set to music by
Ethelbert Nevin, became exceedingly popular.

Mr. Rogers died after a second operation for appendicitis
in Santa Barbara, April 20, 1912, at the age of 50 years.

He married at Santa Barbara, July 21, 1898, Mrs. Beatrice
Fernald Roberts, daughter of Judge and Mrs. Charles
Fernald. She survives him with five sons, two of them by
her first marriage.

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Horatio Odell Stone was born in Chicago, 111., July 15,
i860, the son of Horatio Odell Stone, a grain merchant
and real estate dealer. His mother was Elizabeth (Gager)
Stone of Clifton Springs, N. Y.

The first two years after graduation he was engaged in
mining and surveying in New Mexico and Colorado, a year
of that time with his classmate Charles H. Burr. Return-
ing in 1885 to Chicago he was connected with the firm of
Frank C. Hollins & Co., bankers and brokers, until 1887 and
since then had been head of H. O. Stone & Co., managers
of real estate and dealers in mortgages.

Mr. Stone died after an illness of five months at his home
in Chicago, April 24, 1912. He was in the 52d year of his
age.

He married June 29, 1893, Sara Latimer Clarke, daugh-
ter of James Caran and Susannah Clarke of Mobile,
Ala.

Harold Vernon, son of Thomas and Ianthe (Steele)
Vernon, was born February 11, 1862, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
He was prepared for college at Adelphi Academy. In
college he was a speaker at Junior Exhibition and at
Commencement.

After graduation he spent a year and a half abroad, then
studied law in the office of Eugene Smith (B.A. Yale 1859)
and in Columbia Law School, a year each. He was admitted
to the bar in February, 1886, and practiced seven years in
New York City, until the death of his father, and since
then had been a partner in the firm of Vernon Brothers &
Co., established in 1841, paper merchants and manufacturers
of New York City. He was vice-president of the Twenty-
fourth Ward Board of Trade of Brooklyn, and chairman of
the advisory committee of the Brooklyn Young Men's
Republican Club. He was a member of the committee on
boys' clubs and lodging houses of the Brooklyn City Mission
and Tract Society, and much interested in sociology and

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history. For work in these subjects he received the degree
of Master of Arts from Yale University in 1902.

Mr. Vernon died suddenly of typhoid pneumonia at his
home in Brooklyn, October 11, 191 1, at the age of 49 years.
He was a deacon of the Bedford Presbyterian Church.

He married in Brooklyn, May 16, 1899, Ida Eleanor,
daughter of Darwin R. and Eleanor James, who survives
him with a son and daughter. One brother (Ph.B. Yale
1875) died in 1904, but a brother (B.A. Yale 1889) is living.

1884

Charles Pierpont Phelps, son of Hon. Edward John
Phelps, LL.D. (B.A. Middlebury 1840, hon. M.A. Yale
1881), and Mary (Haight) Phelps, was born October 7,
1 861, in Burlington, Vt. His father was Kent Professor of
Law in Yale University from 1881 to his decease in 1900,
and from 1885 to 1889 United States Minister to Great
Britain. He was fitted for college at St. Paul's School,
Concord, N. H.

After graduation he traveled abroad, and was for a time
at Detroit in the employ of the Michigan Central Railway
Co., of which his brother (B.A. Yale 1870) had been chief
engineer. While his father was Minister to England he
was second secretary of the United States Legation. In
1889 he returned to the United States and was for a short
time in business in St. Paul, Minn. Since then he had been
in the banking and brokerage business, successively with
Lamprecht Brothers & Co. of Boston, as manager of the
Boston office of Harvey Fisk & Sons, and as a member of
the firm of Cushman, Fisher & Phelps and its successors,
C. P. Phelps & Co. He was then in New York as presi-
dent of the American Consolidated Pine Fibre Co., was
with Kean, Van Courtlandt & Co., Kountze Brothers, and
later with Hirsch, Lilienthal & Co. He was known as a
successful bond salesman and organizer.

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Mr. Phelps died of pneumonia at his home in New York
City, January 13, 1912, at the age of 50 years. He was
buried in Burlington, Vt.

He married January 25, 1893, Lillian, daughter of Rev.
Gemont Graves, of Burlington, Vt., but was divorced from
her in 1906. January 11, 1908, he married in Philadelphia,
Minnie Woodbury Braithwaite, daughter of George Moe
Braithwaite, who survives him with a daughter.

John Henry Stevenson, son of John Henry Stevenson,
an officer of the United States Navy, and Henrietta Louise
(Stavey) Stevenson, was born June 27, 1861, in New York
City. He was prepared for college at Adelphi Academy
in Brooklyn, N. Y.

After graduation from college he studied a year in the
Yale Law School, continued his course in the Columbia
Law School, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws
from the latter in 1886. He was admitted to the bar, but
devoted himself to a business life. From 1887 to 1889 he
was in the office of Anderson & Man in New York City,
was then for a year assistant keeper of naval stores at
Annapolis, afterward with the Edison General Electric Co.,
and then for many years with the New York Telephone Co.

Mr. Stevenson died after a long period of suffering at his
home in Brooklyn, November 23, 191 1, at the age of 50
years.

He married in Brooklyn, April 21, 1896, Charlotte,
daughter of James Francis and Charlotte Amelia Buckley,
who survives him with a son. Two brothers graduated
from the College in 1888.

1885

Lewin Frank Buell, son of Jeremiah Sherman and
Frances Jedidah (Hull) Buell, was born September 21,
1863, in Killingworth, Conn. In 1871 the family moved to

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Madison, Conn., where he was fitted for college at Lee's
Academy.

In the autumn following his graduation from college he
entered the Yale Divinity School, from which he received
the degree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1888. In October
of that year he began his first pastorate with the Congrega-
tional Church in Smyrna, N. Y., where he was ordained
January 3, 1889. After four years of service there he
became the first pastor of the First Congregational Church
in Mount Vernon, N. Y., and labored there effectively for
five and a half years, when he took up the work at Good
Will Congregational Church, Syracuse, N. Y. He con-
ducted there a Bible class of one hundred and fifty men
and many other organizations in the church, which grew
rapidly under his care, and reached a leading position in
the community. He received the degree of Doctor of
Divinity from Syracuse University in 1903. In 1904 he
was called to the Congregational Church in South Norwalk,
Conn., and a year and a half later to the Woodfords
Church of Portland, Me. During his brief active pastorate
the membership of the latter church grew rapidly, the
church edifice was enlarged, and a parsonage was built.

In August, 1907, he was stricken with multiple sclerosis,
which gradually rendered his body helpless, though his
mind remained clear to the end. The Woodfords Church
continued him as pastor two years, and during the years of
his suffering the members of all the churches which he had
served were unremitting in their tokens of esteem.

Dr. Buell died in Portland, April 27, 1912, in his 49th
year.

He married July 30, 1888, Helen, daughter of Rev. Wil-
liam Ellison Westervelt (Princeton Sem. 1857), who sur-
vives him with a son, now in Bowdoin College, their
daughter having died. Three brothers, one of them a
graduate of the College in 1880, and another a classmate
at Yale, and two sisters (one of them, B.A. Smith 1889)
are also living.

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1886

Thomas Frank Dougherty, son of Dr. Thomas Dennis
Dougherty (Mt. St. Mary's, Md. 1849) and Mary A.
(Neville) Dougherty, and nephew of Timothy F. Neville
(LL..B. Yale 1861), was born October 1, 1862, in Water-
bury, Conn., where his father was a leading physician, a
member of the Board of Education, and a member of the
Board of Agents of the Bronson Library from 1869 till his
death in 1878. He was fitted for college in the Waterbury
High School.

After graduation he read law in Waterbury, and prac-
ticed there till 1890, when he moved to New York City
and was connected with the Lancashire Insurance Co. for
three years. He then held a position in the naval office of
the Treasury Department, and later was deputy tax com-
missioner for many years. He was also a member of the
general committee of Tammany Hall.

Mr. Dougherty died of apoplexy at his home in New
York City, November 17, 191 1. He was 49 years of age.
He was a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

He married in New York City, October 26, 1898, Helen
Fowler G*ulager, daughter of William Gulager, who
survives him.

Samuel Washington Scott, son of Garret Furman
Scott, was born December 5, 1861, in New York City.
His mother died in 1869 and his father in 1889. He was
fitted for college at the Hillhouse High School, New Haven.

After graduation he taught in a military school in Cleve-
land, O., the first year, then till March, 1891, was head-
master of the Bishop Scott Academy at Portland, Ore. On
account of the failure of his health he went to California
for a time, later taught at Mount Morris (111.) Academy,
and was principal of Toulon (111.) Academy, and in 1895
returned to Portland, where he taught in a private military
academy. After this he was in business for six years, in

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connection with the North Pacific Lumber Co. and the
Meier & Frank Co. dry goods merchants in Portland.
Returning to teaching he was engaged in the High School
in Portland till the spring of 1905, when he had a succes-
sion of serious illnesses which forced him to withdraw
from active life for a time. On recovering his health
sufficiently he taught again in the same school, re-named
the Lincoln High School, until shortly before his death.

He died of pneumonia in Portland, Ore., December 11,
191 1, at the age of 50 years. He was a member of the
First Congregational Church.

He married January 26, 1893, L. Jennie, daughter of
John Ritchie, of Goshen, Ind. She died February 5, 1895,
but twin daughters survive.

1887

John Howard Hume, son of John Ferguson Hume, an
editor and author, and Caroline (Carter) Hume, was born
December 19, 1864, in St. Louis, Mo. His boyhood was
spent in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and he was fitted .for college
at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H.

After graduation he studied a year in the Law School
of Columbia University, and a year in a law office in Pough-
keepsie. He was admitted to the bar in New York City in
1889. The same year he went to Chicago, where he was
for a time with the firm of Hanecy & Merrick, then prac-
ticed his profession alone, and later entered the firm of
Stein & Piatt. In November, 1906, he was elected judge
of the Municipal Court of Chicago, for a term of four
years. He was renominated in 19 10 on the Republican
ticket, but with many of his party colleagues failed of
reelection.

Judge Hume died of brain tumor after an illness of a
month at the home of his sister, Mrs. Alfred M. Frost,
in Poughkeepsie, March 26, 1912. He was 47 years of
age, and not married. His brother is a graduate of the
College in the class of 1892.

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1888

Porter Gouverneur Willett, son of James M. and
Helen L. (Russell) Willett, was born July 28, 1864, at
Batavia, N. Y. He was prepared for college at the Buffalo
(N. Y.) High School.

After graduation from college he studied law with
Sprague, Morey & Sprague in Buffalo and remained with
them for a time in practice, and afterward practiced by
himself for a few years. He then engaged in business and
for several years had been the chief bookkeeper of the
Herschell-Spillman Co., manufacturing merry-go-rounds
in North Tonawanda, N. Y., and had lived there.

He died of blood poisoning caused by an ulcerated tooth
at the Buffalo General Hospital, November 1, 191 1, at the
age of 47 years.

He married, June 14, 1893, Margaret Bogart, daughter
of Hon. James C. and Maria (Lawrence) Wood, of
Jackson, Mich., who survives him with two sons.

1889

Milton Marshall Lemer, son of LeRue Lemer, a
photographer, and Rebecca (Marshall) Lemer, and grand-
son of LeRue Lemer (M.D. Yale 1832), was born January
31, 1865, in Harrisburg, Pa. He was prepared for college
in that city and was for a short time a member of the
class of 1888.

After graduation he studied law in the office of James
I. Chamberlin (B.A. Yale 1873), in Harrisburg, was
admitted to the bar of Dauphin County, March 29, 1892,
and had since practiced his profession in Harrisburg, giving
special attention to corporation law. He was several times
nominated for office on the Democratic ticket, but as his
county was strongly Republican he was not elected.

After a long period of ill health, Mr. Lemer died of heart
trouble following a brief final illness at his home in

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Harrisburg, December 17, 191 1. He was 46 years of age.
He was a member of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church.
He married, in Harrisburg, October 18, 1894, Lucinda
Vesta, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Mary Frances
(Bowman) Black, who, with a son named after his father,
survives him.

1890

William Greenwood Morris, son of William Green-
wood and Margaret Watson (More) Morris, was born
April 8, 1870, in New Haven, Conn. He was prepared for
college at the Hillhouse High School there.

For two years after graduation he taught in the Mil-
waukee (Wise.) Academy, and the two years following
was occupied with private tutoring there. From 1894 to
1900 he was in the home office of the Northwestern Mutual
Life Insurance Co. in Milwaukee. Since then he had been
engaged in the brokerage business.

He died suddenly from pneumonia in Portage, Wise,
January 29, 1912. He was 41 years of age, and not
married. Besides his parents two brothers (B.A. Yale
1896 and 1902, respectively) survive him.

Joseph Lafon Winchell, second son of Joseph Rice
Winchell, collector of United States customs in New
Haven, Conn., and Kate Anna (Lafon) Winchell, was born
in Hannibal, Mo., May 29th, 1868.

In 1882 the family moved to New Haven, where he
was fitted for college in the High School.

He entered college with the class of 1889, but left it at the
end of Freshman year and joined the class of 1890. After
graduation he remained in New Haven in the employ of
Benton & Co. until March, 1892, and since then had lived
in Oregon, where he was engaged in mining, school
teaching, farming, merchandizing, milling, and stock
raising. For several years his home was in Starvout,

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Douglas County, but in 1899 he moved to. Glendale in the
same county. From 1901 to 1902 he was in the employ of
the Hair-Riddle Hardware Co. of Grant's Pass, Ore.
Later he was with Snyder & Co. of Glendale.

His death occurred near Glendale, December 7, 191 1,
from a shooting accident. He was 43 years of age.

He married at Jacksonville, Ore., March 12, 1894,
Jeannette, daughter of Spencer W. Miser, a gold miner.
She survives him with two sons.

1891

James Kingsley Blake, son of Henry Taylor Blake
(B.A. Yale 1848) and grandson of Eli Whitney Blake
(B.A. Yale 1816), was born September 17, 1870, in New
Haven, Conn. His mother was Elizabeth Coit (Kingsley)
Blake, daughter of Professor James L. Kingsley. He was
fitted for college in the Hopkins Grammar School and New
Haven High School.

During his college course he was a member of the
editorial board of the Yale Record, and in the Law School
an editor of the Lazv School Journal.

In 1893 he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws at
Yale, was admitted to the bar the same year, and entered
into partnership with J. Gardner Clark (B.A. Yale 1861)
and Charles L. Swan (B.A. Yale 1874), under the name
of Clark, Swan & Blake. He continued with them till
June, 1898, when he was appointed assistant clerk of the
Probate Court for the District of New Haven. In 1902
he became clerk of the court, but January 1, 1905,
returned to general practice. In June of that year he was
appointed assistant corporation counsel of the City of New
Haven, and in this office did effective work in collecting for
the city many arrears of tax claims. In his private practice
he devoted his attention largely to probate and trust mat-
ters, and since October 1, 1908, has been in partnership

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with Henry C. White (B.A. Yale 1881) and Leonard M.
Daggett (B.A. Yale 1884) in the firm of White, Daggett
& Blake. He was also connected with the New Haven
Realty Co., which was organized as a separate company by
the members of the law firm of Clark, Swan & Blake and
others. Since June, 1904, he had been a member of the
State Board of Bar Examiners, and since 1906 secretary
of the board.

Mr. Blake had been secretary of the Committee of New
Haven Alumni which assists in the arrangements for
Commencement, and for some years called to order the
general meeting of the alumni in Commencement week.
He was repeatedly chairman of his Class Reunion Com-
mittee, and was also first vice-president of the Graduates
Club of New Haven. He served three years on the New
Haven Board of Health, was a director of the Board of
Organized Charities, a member of the Center Church and
of its Society's committee, a member of the New Haven
Grays for four years, and was always doing unselfish
public service.

He contributed several papers to the New Haven Colony
Historical Society, one of which, "The Lost Dukedom,"
was printed by the Society, and another, entitled "James
G. Percival and the Microscope," was read before the
Society after his death.

Mr. Blake died of typhoid fever at his home in New
Haven, August 28, 191 1, in the 41st year of his age.

He married at Salem, Mass., November 6, 1897, Helen
Langley Putnam (B.L. Smith 1893), daughter of Rev.
Alfred Porter Putnam, D.D. (B.A. Brown 1852), of Salem,
and Eliza King (Buttrick) Putnam. Mrs. Blake with
their two daughters, his parents, and his brother, Henry
W. Blake (Ph.B. Yale 1886), survive him. A brother
(Ph.B. Yale 1884) died in 1893.

A class room in Wright Memorial Hall has been given
by his classmates and named in his memory.

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Malcolm MacLear, son of Hon. Henry C. MacLear,
former mayor and a leading carriage builder of Wilmington,
Del., was born at Washington, Del., February 5, 1869. His
mother was Martha J. (Yates) MacLear. He was pre-
pared for college at the Friends' School, Wilmington, and
under a private tutor.

After graduation from college he entered the Yale Law
School, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of
Laws in 1893.

He went to Atlanta, Ga., with the intention of practicing
his profession, but after a short time settled in Newark,
N. J. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney
in 1894, and counselor in 1897. In May, 1894, he entered
into partnership with Wilber A. Mott, Esq., upon whose
retirement in 1897 he was associated with Edward H.
Wright, Jr., a short time. After this he practiced alone
till 1901, when the firm of Lindsley & MacLear was
established.

In 1898 he was retained by the Republican State Com-
mittee to prosecute cases of illegal registration, and became
deeply interested in politics. He was private secretary to
the speaker of the New Jersey Assembly in 1900, city
attorney of Newark from 1902 to 1906, member of the
Republican County Committee from 1896, and secretary of
the Republican State Committee in 1907-08. In March,
1908, he was appointed judge of the First District Court
of Newark for five years. He had declined an appointment
to a higher court.

While he was city attorney a protracted legal battle
over insurance rates, though resulting in a victory for the
city, overtaxed his health. During the last two years of
his life he underwent seven serious operations, and after
the last he failed to rally, dying at a private hospital in
Newark, May 10, 1912. He was 43 years of age.

Judge MacLear married May 19, 1896, Charlotte Grim-
shaw, of Wilmington, Del., daughter of Robert Grimshavv,

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Ph.D., a scientific expert of Dresden, Germany. Mrs.
MacLear survives him with one son and three of their
four daughters.

1893

George Justus Briggs, son of George Washington
Briggs, superintendent of a cotton mill, was born in Gros-
venordale, Conn., July 23, 1871. His mother was Mary
Anna (Arnold) Briggs. He was prepared for college at
the Worcester (Mass.) Academy.

The year after graduation he taught in the private school
of John Leal (B.A. Yale 1874) in Plainfield, N. J., and
then engaged in business, with headquarters in Japan, for
about twelve years. He was Eastern agent of Leonard &
Ellis of Providence, R. I., wholesale dealers in lubricating
oils, till 1897, the next three years was the representative
of The American Trading Co. in Yokohama, and from
1900 to 1906 was sole agent in Japan for valvoline oils of
the Crew-Levick Co. He then returned to the United
States, and had lately taken the agency in Providence of
the White Automobile Co.

He went South for a brief vacation, during which he
died after a short illness from dysentery at Atlanta, Ga.,
June 15, 191 1. He was in his 40th year.

He married, at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, September
28, 1902, Sarah Gibberson, of St. Johns, O., who survives
him without children.

1894

Pratt Anthony Brown, son of William Wallace and
Helen Pauline (Corbett) Brown, was born in Dublin, Ga.,
September 6, 1874. Llis father was in the insurance
business. Before coming to Yale he graduated in 1892 as
a Bachelor of Arts from Mercer University, at Macon, Ga.

After his graduation from Yale he entered the New
York Law School, and received the decree of Bachelor of

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269

Laws in 1896, and was admitted to the bar. During the
previous year he had been in the offices of Evarts, Choate
& Beaman as a student. In January, 1899, he became
managing clerk for that firm, serving in that capacity till
September, 1900, and continued with the firm until Febru-
ary, 1902. Nicoll, Anable & Lindsay then placed him in
charge of their litigation growing out of the construction
of the New York Subway system. Several years later he
added to this the legal work of the O'Rourke Engineering-
Construction Co. in connection with the Pennsylvania
Railroad tunnel and the excavations for the New York
Central Railroad terminal improvements. In 1905 he was
a commissioner from New York State to the Lewis and
Clarke Exposition at Portland, Ore. He was an active
worker for the Republican party.

Mr. Brown died suddenly at Jacksonville, Fla., April
12, 191 1, in his 37th year. He was buried in Macon, Ga.

He married in New York City, January 25, 1899, Bertha
Maud, daughter of David H. Bidwell.

Edward Kirkland, son of Charles Pinckney Kirkland,
Jr., (B.A. Coll. City N. Y. 1861), a lawyer, and Mary
(Clark) Kirkland, was born July 1, 1872, in New York
City. His grandfather, Charles P. Kirkland, LL.D. (B.A.
Hamilton 1816), was mayor of Utica, N. Y., and for many
years a trustee of Hamilton College, and his maternal
grandfather, Erastus Clark, was one of the original
trustees of Hamilton College.

After graduation he took the course in the New York
Law School, received the degree of Bachelor of Laws
there in 1897, was admitted to the New York bar in June
of that year, and for five years was with Turner, McClure
& Ralston. He then went to Muskogee, Ind. Ty., as clerk
of the Dawes Commission. On his return East he was
with the Public Service Corporation, Newark, N. J., until
November, 1907, when he contracted pneumonia. Since

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then he had been in the Adirondack Mountains, N. Y.,
where he died suddenly of heart failure, at Fourth Lake,
November 8, 191 1. He was 39 years of age.

He married in New York City, April 30, 1903, Alice
Beardsley Smith, daughter of Laura Hyde Smith. His
mother and wife survive him.

Charles Francis Word, son of Samuel and Sarah Mar-
garet (Foster) Word, was born in Virginia City, Mont.,
April 3, 1871. His father, a pioneer lawyer of Montana,
was a native of Kentucky, while his mother was from Clay
County, Mo. He prepared for college at Phillips Academy,
Exeter, N. H.

After graduation he studied law in Helena, Mont., and
was admitted to the bar in June, 1896. He was for four
years private secretary to the Governor of Montana, but
in January, 1901, formed a partnership with his brother,
R. L. Word, under the name of Word & Word in Helena.
He was secretary of the Montana Bar Association for
several years previous to his death. In 1903-04 he was a
Democratic member of the Montana Legislative Assembly.

While packing a trunk, June 10, 191 1, preparatory to
leaving for Prescott, Canada, to be married to Miss Gladys
Whitney, he was instantly killed by the accidental discharge
of his revolver. He was 40 years of age. His mother,
a sister, and two brothers survive him.

1896

Walter Palmer Paret, son of John and Emily L.
(Story) Paret, was born June 2, 1872, at Bergen Point,
N. J. Both his father and grandfather were wholesale
clothing merchants.

He was prepared for college at the Hopkins Grammar
School, New Haven. While in college he was a member
of the Freshman and Junior class crews.

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271

After graduation he took the course in the Law School
of Columbia University, receiving the degree of Bachelor
of Laws therefrom in 1899. After gaining experience in
the law office of Parkins & Jackson, he formed a partner-
ship with his classmate Beard, December 1, 1900, under the
name of Beard & Paret, in New York City. For two
years and a half he was mayor of Essex Fells, N. J., but
declined a renomination. In the summer of 1903 he made
a trip to England, and in May, 1905, enjoyed a second trip
on the steam yacht of a classmate.

Mr. Paret died after a long illness at Essex Fells, N. J.,
February 21, 191 2. He was in his 40th year, and was
not married. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

1897

Frederic Merwin Burgess, son of Henry Bacon and
Mary Ann (Collins) Burgess, was born March 15, 1872,
in New Haven, Conn., and was prepared for college at the
Hillhouse High School.

While still in college he was fitting himself for the
ministry, and immediately after graduation entered the
General Theological Seminary in New York and studied
for three years. He received the degree of Bachelor of
Divinity from there in 1900. In 1899 he took a trip to
Japan and Hawaii.

He was ordained Deacon June 6, 1900, and Priest in 1901,
meantime becoming curate of Christ Church, New Haven,
and serving also for two years as vicar of St. Andrew's.
After the death of the rector of Christ Church, Rev.
G. Brinley Morgan, D.D., in November, 1908, he was chosen
to succeed him, and had since unsparingly devoted himself
to the care of his large parish. He was also superintend-
ent of the Sunday School and his special interest in boys
led to his appointment to the General Diocesan Commission
for Work Among Boys.

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Mr. Burgess died after a week's illness from pleuro-
pneumonia at his home in New Haven, April 3, 19:12. The
funeral services were held the day before Easter. He was
40 years of age, and was not married. He had hoped
ultimately to enter the Order of the Holy Cross. His
mother, a sister, and two brothers survive him. One of
the brothers graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School
in 1904.

1898

John Randolph Paxton, son of Rev. John Randolph
Paxton, D.D. (B.A. Washington and Jefferson 1866) and
Elizabeth Dill (Wilson) Paxton, was born November 28,
1877, at Harrisburg, Pa. After four years in Washington,
D. C, in 1882 the family removed to New York City, where
Dr. Paxton was pastor of the West Presbyterian Church.
The son was prepared for college at the Harvard School
in that city, and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

In Senior year he left college with many of his classmates
for the Spanish war, and was corporal of Platoon C, Battery
A, Connecticut Light Artillery, but by vote of the
Corporation received his degree with the class.

The year after graduation he was in the South with his
father, and abroad, then studied at the New York Law
School, receiving from it the degree of Bachelor of Laws
in 1901, and was with Luce, Davis & Griffin for a time.
During the next three years he was engaged in running a
ranch, first at Cody, Wyo., and later at Glendive, Mont.
From 1905 to 1907 he was with Michaelis & Ellsworth,
industrial statisticians in New York City, after which he
returned to Glendive. Recently he had been a cotton broker
in New York City.

Mr. Paxton died after a brief illness at Saranac Lake,
May 20, 1912. He was in his 35th year, and not married.

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273

Maxwell Warren Rockwell, son of Francis Warren
Rockwell, M.D. (B.A. Amherst 1865), and Elizabeth Trow-
bridge (Hammill) Rockwell, was born July 14, 1877, in
Brooklyn, N. Y. After his father's death, his home was
in South Woodstock, Conn., and he was prepared for col-
lege at the Woodstock Academy. Toward the end of his
Senior year, May 3, 1898, he enlisted for the Spanish War
as a private in Platoon C, Battery A, Connecticut Light
Artillery, and spent four months and a half in camp at
Niantic. With other volunteers of his class he afterward
received his degree by special vote of the Corporation.

After being mustered out of service, October 25, 1898,
he was a student of art, chiefly in New York and Paris
until 1 901, and during the four years following worked
mostly at home, making book-cover designs and decorations,
and illustrations for various periodicals. He was a regular
contributor to Life. Since 1905 he had continued his work
in New York.

Mr. Rockwell died after a brief illness of typhoid pneu-
monia at St. Vincent's Hospital, New York City, October
17, 191 1. He was 34 years of age, and unmarried. Two
brothers survive him.

Horace Wilder Wilcox, son of Aaron Morley Wilcox,
an iron manufacturer, and Helen Mary (Cleveland) Wil-
cox, was born January 4, 1876, in Cleveland, Ohio, but spent
his early life at Painesville, Ohio. He was prepared for
college at the University School, Cleveland.

After graduation he was connected with the Hamilton
(Canada) Steel and Iron Works until his father's death
in 1906. He then retired from business, but had an
interest in Doolittle & Wilcox, Ltd., stone quarriers.

Mr. Wilcox died suddenly of heart failure in New York
City, March 13, 1912. He was 36 years of age, and
unmarried.

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1899

John [Gale] Boyce, son of James and Susan (Gale)
Boyce, was born August 27, 1876, at Schodack-on-the-Hud-
son, N. Y. He was prepared for Yale at the Albany
(N. Y.) Academy.

The winter after graduation he took the course in the
Albany Business College, and went into business in May,
1901, with Charles Corey & Sons, New York City, manu-
facturers and installers of mechanical, electrical, and other
means of interior communication on vessels, and continued
there as secretary seven years.

During the last three years he had suffered from ill
health, and died at Schodack, from a complication of dis-
eases, August 26, 191 1, in his 35th year. He was not
married. Besides his parents, his brother and classmate,
Samuel Gale Boyce, survives him.

Charles Edward Hay, youngest of the five children of
Hon. Charles Edward Hay, who was for four terms mayor
of Springfield, 111., and Mary (Ridgely) -Hay, was born
in that city November 21, 1874. He was fitted for college
at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

His father and two uncles were officers of the United
States Army, and he left college in March of Senior year to
accept a commission as second lieutenant of the Twenty-
fourth Infantry, dating from April 10, 1899, but in
April, 1906, was enrolled with his class by vote of the
Corporation.

He was first stationed at Columbus Barracks, O., for a
year, was then sent to the Presidio, San Francisco, and
June 22., 1899, sailed for the Philippine Islands, where he
was on duty three years, becoming first lieutenant in
1 901. For nearly a year he was stationed at Fort Harrison,
Mont., and was then in the office of the judge advocate
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judge advocate in the Department of Texas, June 7,
1905. He had received the degree of Bachelor of Laws
from the Union Law School the same year. He served
as judge advocate three years, and during this time
prosecuted the case against the officer charged with respon-
sibility for the "Brownsville Affair." October 2, 1908,
he was promoted to the rank of captain, and in 1910 was
appointed regimental commissary. In 1904 he revised
"Military Reservations," an official publication. He had
recently qualified as "expert rifleman."

Captain Hay was about to start with his regiment for
the Philippines when he was taken with pneumonia and
died at Madison Barracks, at Sacket Harbor, N. Y.,
November 23, 191 1. He was 37 years of age.

He married at Decatur, 111., May 21, 1903, Jane, daughter
of Kilburn Harwood and Annie Louise (Haworth) Roby.
She survives him with a son. He was a nephew of Hon.
John Hay (LL.D. Yale 1901), Secretary of State.

1900

Ernest Clare McGouldrick, son of James and Chris-
tiana C. (Ward) McGouldrick, was born August 30, 1874,
at Machias, Me. He was fitted for college at Phillips
Academy, Andover, Mass.

Upon his graduation from Yale he entered the Medical
Department of Johns Hopkins University, and on the com-
pletion of the course there received the degree of Doctor
of Medicine in 1904. After this he served five years as
interne, house physician, and pathologist in the Barnes
Hospital, Washington, D. C, and in 1909 began the gen-
eral practice of medicine in Bangor and Brewer, Me. He
was also city physician of Brewer, and a member of the
staff of the Eastern Maine General Hospital of Bangor.

Dr. McGouldrick had suffered for some time from valvu-
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overwork and exposure to cold, he died in Machias, Janu-
ary 9, 1 91 2. He was in his 38th year, and was not
married. His parents, a brother, and sister survive him.

William Chase Mackey, second son of Charles William
and Lauretta Barnes (Fay) Mackey, was born in Franklin,
Pa., January 7, 1877. He entered college from Williston
Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.

After graduation he spent a year in the Columbia Law
School, was then for two years general agent on the
Pacific Coast for the Franklin (Pa.) Rolling Mill &
Foundry Co., and in 1904 became general manager of the
Franklin Drug & Chemical Co. In the summer of 191 1 he
went to China, and had since been at Hong Kong in the
employ of the Standard Oil Co. He died there of heart
disease January 16, 1912. He was 35 years of age, and
unmarried. A brother graduated from the College in 1896.

1901

Wilford Williams Linsly, son of Wilford Linsly
(Ph.B. Yale 1866), a landscape painter, and* Johanna Ross
(Williams) Linsly, was born November 30, 1878, in New
York City, where he was prepared for college in the
Wilson and Kellogg school. He was a grandson of Dr.
Jared Linsly (B.A. Yale 1826), in whose memory Linsly
Hall in the University Library was given.

After graduation he took a two-year course in archi-
tecture in Columbia University, was then with York &
Sawyer in New York City three years, and since then had
practiced his profession by himself.

He died suddenly of heart trouble in New York City,
January 13, 1912. He was 33 years of age.

He married in New York City, September 6, 1906,
Loretta Louise, daughter of James Rickard, who survives
him.

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1903

James William Reynolds was the second son of Hon.
George Delachaumette Reynolds, president judge of the
St. Louis Court of Appeals and in the Civil War a lieuten-
ant colonel in the Union Army, and was grandson of Rev.
William M. Reynolds, one of the founders and first pro-
fessors of Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg. His
mother was Julia (Vogdes) Reynolds. He was born June
15, 1879, in St. Louis, Mo., and was prepared for college
there in Smith Academy.

In Senior year he was president of the University Glee
Club, and collaborated with Thomas G. Shepard in editing
and publishing "Yale Melodies," a collection of Yale songs
from 1893 to 1903.

Soon after graduation he began business life with the
Germania Trust Co., in St. Louis, and from 1904 to the
winter of 1906-07 was in the bond department of the Com-
monwealth Trust Co. He then became western agent in
Chicago of the Harbison-Walker Refractories Co., of
Pittsburgh, Pa., and afterward district sales manager of
this business in Pittsburgh.

Mr. Reynolds died in Pittsburgh from a pistol wound,
September 19, 191 1. He was 32 years of age, and
unmarried. Funeral services were conducted by the Bishop
of Missouri at St. George's Episcopal Chapel, St. Louis.
A brother graduated from the College in 190 1.

John Richards White, son of William Wurts White
(B.A. Univ. Pa. i860) and Kate (Merwin) White, was
born November 24, 1880, in Providence, R. I. His
grandfather, John Richards White, graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1832. He was fitted for
college at St. Mark's School, Southboro, Mass. In Fresh-
man year he was a member of his class baseball nine, and
in Sophomore year of the College nine.

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The year after graduation he taught in St. Mark's
School, and was then for two years in the coal business
in Providence of John R. White & Son, founded by his
grandfather, and carried on by his father. In the spring
of 1906 he gave up business on account of ill health, and
the following fall returned to St. Mark's School as
instructor.

Mr. White died in Providence, June 16, 191 1 of per-
nicious anaemia following a severe attack of grippe and
tonsilitis. He was 30 years of age, and was unmarried.
A brother, William Wurts White, graduated from the
College in 1905.

1905

Harold Bruff, son of William Jenkins BrufT, president
of the Union Metallic Cartridge Co. and secretary of the
Remington Arms Co., was born April 28, 1884, in Brook-
lyn, N. Y. His mother was Edith Mary (Haynes) Bruff.
He was prepared for college at the Brooklyn Polytechnic
Institute. While in college he was a member of the Uni-
versity Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, secretary in Junior year
and president in Senior year.

After graduation he took the course in the Harvard Law
School, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws there-
from in 1908. While there he was a member of the board
of editors of the Harvard Law Review. During the vaca-
tion in 1907 he entered the law office of Bryan & Cutcheon
in New York City, and after graduation practiced with that
firm.

He had spent several summers in European travel, and a
few months before his death had returned from a long
sojourn abroad, which he had made with little benefit to
his health. For a year or more he had suffered from
tuberculosis, and was impelled to take his own life in New
York City, October 12, 191 1. He was 2J years of age
and unmarried. His father and a brother, who graduated

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from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1902, and two sis-
ters survive him. His mother died a few months before
him.

1906

George Henry Warren Alden, younger son of Robert
Percy Alden (B.A. Yale 1870) and Mary Ida (Warren)
Alden, was born September 28, 1883, in Troy, N. Y. His
mother was the eldest daughter of George Henry Warren
of that city. The family lived much abroad although they
had a country home in Cornwall, Pa. He was fitted for
college at the Princeton Preparatory and Hotchkiss Schools.

After graduation he traveled extensively, but died in
New York City of meningitis after an illness of three
weeks, January 12, 1912. He was 28 years of age, and
unmarried. The burial was in Troy. His parents are not
living but a brother survives him.

1907

George Borup, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry D.
Borup (West Point 1876), was born at Ossining, N. Y.,
September 2, 1885. His father was then First Lieutenant
of Ordnance at South Boston, Mass., and was later an
attache of the United States Legation at Paris. His mother,
whose maiden name was Mary Watson Brandreth, died in
1897. His sister married Frederick Potter (B.A. Yale

1878).

He entered college from the Groton School. After
graduation he spent a year as a special apprentice in the
machine shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Altoona, Pa.
In July, 1908, he left New York as Assistant to Commander
(afterward Admiral) Peary on the Arctic Expedition which
reached the North Pole April 6, 1909. Mr. Borup went
to latitude 85 ° 23' and then had to turn south in command
of the second supporting party. His valuable part in the
success of the expedition as a whole is set forth in Admiral

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Peary's "The North Pole," while his personal experiences
are modestly told in his own book, "A Tenderfoot with
Peary," 191 1.

After his return from the Arctic and a trip to England,
he resumed his position in the shops in Altoona, remaining
there till July, 1910. He had since then been studying in
the field and in the Graduate Department of Yale to fit
himself thoroughly in geological and geographical lines for
scientific exploration. He was assistant curator of geology
of the American Museum of Natural History, a fellow of
the Royal Geographical Society of London, and a member
of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural
History, and with the support of Yale University, the Col-
lege class of 1907, and the Groton School, as well as
Bowdoin College and interested societies and individuals,
Mr. Borup and Donald Baxter MacMillan, M.A. (B.A.
Bowdoin 1898), a comrade on the Peary Expedition,
planned to lead an expedition, starting from Sydney, Nova
Scotia, in July, 19 12, on a two-years' journey of exploration
to the northwest of Grant Land primarily to determine the
existence or non-existence of Crocker Land and the con-
figuration of the polar continental shelf of North America.

While he and his friend Samuel Winship Case (Ph.B.
Yale 191 1 ) were canoeing on Long Island Sound off
Crescent Beach, April 28, 1912, the boat was in some way
overturned and Mr. Case apparently rendered unconscious
by being struck by it on the temple. In attempting in vain
to save his helpless companion Mr. Borup lost his own life.
He was 26 years of age and unmarried. His father and a
sister survive him.

1908

William Richmond Peters, son of William Richmond
Peters, and grandson of Rev. Thomas McClure Peters,
D.D. (B.A. Yale 1841), was born in New York City,

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December 13, 1886. His father was a member of the
class of 1870 during Freshman year. His mother was
Helen R. (Heiser) Peters. His uncle, Rev. John P.
Peters, Ph.D., D.D. (B.A. Yale 1873), grandfather, and
maternal great-grandfather, Rev. William Richmond, were
all rectors of St. Michael's Protestant Episcopal Church,
New York.

He was prepared for college at St. Paul's School,
Concord, N. H.

Since graduation he had been taking a course in Civil
Engineering in Columbia University, and would have com-
pleted it in the summer of 191 1, but in March was taken
with the grippe, which developed into endocarditis. He
died at his home at Oyster Bay, L. I., N. Y., August 17.
He was 24 years of age, and unmarried. A brother is
a member of the Senior class in the College.

In his memory a suite of rooms in Wright Memorial
Hall has been given by his parents.

William Wilford Wynkoop, son of Urban Gilfred
Wynkoop, a druggist, and Mitta (Georgi) Wynkoop, was
born June 18, 1884, in Jamestown, N. Y., but his parents
removed in 1898 to Tacoma, Wash., where he was prepared
for college in the High School and under a private tutor.

In the fall of 1907 he was a member of the University
Debating Team against Princeton University, and was
president of the Yale Union in Senior year. He showed
unusual finish as an orator.

After graduation he studied in the Law Department of
the University of Chicago for a year, and after taking the
last two years in the Law Department of Northwestern
University in one year received the degree of Bachelor of
Laws from the latter in 1910, and then, returning to
Tacoma, entered the law office of Judge W. H. Snell and
F. S. Blattner.

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Mr. Wynkoop died of typhoid fever at St. Joseph's Hos-
pital, Tacoma, May 24, 191 1, in his 27th year. He was a
member of the First Congregational Church in Tacoma.

He married at Tacoma, Wash., July 27, 1910, Margaret,
daughter of Joseph Richard Addison, a lumberman, and
Emma Clay (Stone) Addison, who survives him. His
parents and a younger brother are also living.

1910

Francis Exley Bickley, son of Francis Daniel Tull
Bickley (Drew Theol. Sem. 1879) and Elizabeth (Huckel)
Bickley, was born at Painted Post, N. Y., October 18,
1886. After three and a half years in Marietta College he
entered the Junior class in Yale College in 1909, but
gained his degree with the class of 1910.

He was a student volunteer looking forward to work
under the American Board in Turkey, and since gradua-
tion had been in the Young Men's Christian Association
as assistant promoter of service in Philadelphia, Pa.

While engaged in his work he was prostrated by extreme
heat, and died of heart failure, July 11, 191 1. He was 24
years of age, and unmarried. He was buried in Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Frankford, Philadelphia. His mother died
December 29, 1908, but his father and a brother, the latter
a graduate of the Carnegie School of Applied Science in
Pittsburgh, survive him.

1911

Frederick Boughton Keppy, son of Frederick Beards-
ley, a dentist, and Augusta (Boughton) Keppy, was born
September 9, 1890, in Brooklyn, N. Y. His mother died
there when he was but three years old. He was fitted for
college in the Boys' High School in that city, and took
high rank as a scholar in college.

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283

He was awarded the Foote Fellowship in English, and
planned to enter the Graduate School, but died after an
illness of three weeks from typhoid pneumonia, at his
fathers summer home at Bayport, L. I., N. Y., August 25,
191 1. He was in his 21st year and unmarried. The
burial was in Bridgeport.

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1853

Francis Bacon, son of Rev. Leonard Bacon, D.D., LL.D.
(B.A. Yale 1820), who was pastor of the Center Church in
New Haven, Conn., from 1825 until his death in 1881, was
born in New Haven, October 6, 1831. His mother was
Lucy (Johnson) Bacon.

Entering the Medical School after a year in the Hopkins
Grammar School he finished his medical course in 1851, but
on account of his youth did not receive his degree till 1853.
Upon the outbreak of yellow fever in Galveston, Texas, in
1852, he volunteered for service as assistant surgeon in the
Galveston Hospital and was there a year and a half, when
he took the fever himself. He returned home but six
months later was recalled and took entire charge of the
hospital. After a service lasting in all eight years, when
the Civil War seemed inevitable, he resigned on account of
his strong Abolition views, and coming North first, opened
an office in New York City, where he was the medical
attendant of the inventor Charles F. Goodyear, till the
latter's death in i860. In June of that year Dr. Bacon
began practice in New Haven.

In 1 86 1, at the beginning of the war, he enlisted in the
Second Connecticut Infantry as assistant surgeon and was
commended for his devotion to the wounded under hot fire
at the battle of Bull Run. At the end of the three months
for which that regiment enlisted, he re-enlisted as surgeon
with the rank of major in the Seventh Connecticut Volun-
teers, which like the earlier Second was under the command
of Colonel (afterwards General) Alfred H. Terry. He
was in the siege of Fort Pulaski, at Beaufort, Tybee Island,
and in other engagements. He was made medical inspector
of the Army of the Potomac, and later director general of

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the Medical Department of the Gulf, having charge of all
the Union hospitals in the South.

In 1864 he was elected to succeed Professor Jonathan
Knight, M.D., as Professor of Surgery in the Yale Medical
School. In 1877 he resigned the chair, and devoted himself
to the practice of his profession. Since 1899 he had been
Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence in the Medical School.
He received the degree of Doctor of Science from Yale in
1906. He was eminent in every practical branch of
medicine but was especially noted as a surgeon and an
alienist.

He was president of the New Haven Medical Association
in 1875, 1880, and 1881 and of the Connecticut Medical
Society in 1887 and 1888, and was for thirty years director
of the New Haven Hospital, in connection with which he
founded the Connecticut Training School for Nurses. He
was president of the New Haven County Anti-Tuberculosis
Association from its organization in 1902 until his death.
He was a member of the Connecticut Board of Pardons
from 1883 to 1910. He was one of the organizers of the
American Public Health Association.

Dr. Bacon died at his home in New Haven, April 26,
1912, of angina pectoris after an illness of several weeks.
He was in his 81 st year. He left a generous bequest to
the University.

He married June 6, 1867, Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey,
daughter of Charles William and Jane Eliza (Newton)
Woolsey, and niece of President Woolsey. She actively
cooperated with him in philanthropic work until her death
in 1906. They had no children.

Six brothers of Dr. Bacon received the degree of Bachelor
of Arts from the University, in 1847, 1850, 1853, 1856, 1872,
and 1873 respectively, and a seventh that of Master of Arts
in 1878. A sister is the wife of Eugene Smith (B.A. Yale
1859).

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1854

John Nicoll, son of Charles Nicoll (B.A. Middlebury
1817), a merchant, was born March 13, 1831, in New
Haven, Conn. His mother was Caroline (Bishop) Nicoll,
daughter of Abraham Bishop (B.A. Yale 1778). He
entered the Medical School from the classical school of
Rev. Edward L. Hart (B.A. Yale 1836) in New Haven.

For over forty years he was a general practitioner in New
Haven, with some intervals of travel in this country and
Europe, retiring on account of ill health in 1896.

He was at first a Whig, but since the organization of the
Republican party had voted with that party. In young
manhood he united with the Center Church, was an early
member and deacon of the Howard Avenue Church, and a
member of the College Street Church, and united again
with the Center Church in 1899.

Dr. Nicoll died at Stamford, Conn., May 22, 1912, after
an illness of three months. He was 81 years of age. Dur-
ing the last two years he had made his home with his
daughter, the wife of William A. Durrie, M.D. (B.A. Yale
1876).

He married, at Plymouth, Conn., May 6, 1856, Cornelia
Augusta, daughter of LaFayette Comstock, a carriage
maker, and Hannah M. (Bradley) Comstock, and had three
daughters and two sons, of whom one son and the daughter
mentioned above survive. Mrs. Nicoll died in 1892, and
a daughter who married Stephen D. Harrison (B.A. Yale
1876) died in 1901.

1875

George Byron Chapman, son of Alfred Chapman, a
carpenter and builder, and Adeline (Mabbett) Chapman,
was born at Dover, N. Y., May 20, 1849. He prepared
for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., and entered
the Medical School in 1874.

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Since graduation he had practiced medicine at Dover
Plains, N. Y., where he died January 13, 1912. He was
62 years of age. He was a member of the Baptist Church.

Dr. Chapman married at Kent, Conn., June 20, 1874,
Martha, daughter of Oliver Root, a farmer. She died at
Amenia, N. Y., in February, 1876. In 1878 he married
Sarah Hitchcock, who died January 17, 1907, leaving a
daughter, who survives him.

James Sullivan, son of John and Johanna (Ryan)
Sullivan, was born April 22, 1853, at Mt. Vernon, N. H.
His father was a native of Milford, N. H., and his mother
of Manchester in that state.

After a preparatory education in the High School at
Milford, N. H., he was a student in Starling Medical
College, at Columbus, O., for a year and then entered the
Yale Medical School in 1873.

Upon graduation he settled in Manchester, N. H., where
he had since practiced. For five years he was surgeon in
the First Infantry, New Hampshire National Guard.

He was also prominent in the political life of the city
and state. In 1876, 1877, and 1888 he was a member of
the Common Council, also in 1876 of the State Constitu-
tional Convention, and in 1877, 1878, 1881, and 1882 of
the Legislature. He was an alternate delegate to the
National Democratic Convention in 1884. In 1900 and
1910 he was Democratic candidate for Mayor of the city.
The disputed election in the latter year was finally decided
against him by a few votes.

Dr. Sullivan died at the Carney Hospital in Boston,
Mass., August 16, 191 1. He had suffered from heart
trouble for five years and had been under treatment for a
few days in the hospital when he suffered a stroke of
paralysis and died the same evening. He was 58 years of
age, and unmarried. Three sisters survive him. He was
a member of St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church.

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1876

Edward Hubbard Welch, son of James Welch (M.D.
Berks. Med. Inst. 1830) and Lavinia M. (Hubbard)
Welch, was born March 15, 1852, in Winsted, Conn. His
father was the youngest of five brothers, all of whom were
at one time in active practice within forty miles of Winsted.
His grandfather, Dr. Benjamin Welch (hon. M.D. Yale
1849), was for more than half a century the beloved
physician of Norfolk, Conn.

After preparatory work in Winchester Institute, and
two years in the College of Physicians and Surgeons
(Columbia University), he aided his father two years, and
then completed his medical studies in the Yale Medical
School.

Upon graduation he settled in Winsted and began
practice with his father, later succeeding him and winning
wide confidence in his skill as a physician, and showing
generous public spirit as a citizen.

He was one of the founders of the Litchfield County
Hospital, its first president, and for a number of years a
member of its visiting staff; since his father's death in
1886 had been Post Surgeon of the Connecticut National
Guard; was president of the Litchfield County Medical
Society; and vice-president of the Connecticut Medical
Society. He was chosen president of the last, but was
unable to accept. He was also a member of the board of
burgesses of Winsted.

Dr. Welch died at his home in Winsted from a paralytic
shock, December 28, 191 1. He was 59 years of age.

He married at Winsted, September 6, 1876, Nellie
Ormsbee Munger, daughter of Nathan P. Munger, a
merchant of Watertown, N. Y., and Jennie A. (Wing)
Munger. She survives him with a daughter, their son
having died in infancy. A brother, Dr. William C. Welch
(M.D. Yale 1877), is living, but an older brother, Dr. John

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289

B. Welch (M.D. Yale i860), died in 1862 while a surgeon
in the Civil War.

1903

Joseph Pierre Lavalaye, son of Andrew Henry
Lavalaye, a gilder, and Margrete (Odenkirchen) Lavalaye,
was born July 22, 1874, in New Haven, Conn.

After a grammar school course he learned the drug
business, in which he continued for a number of years, in
the meantime graduating from the New York College of
Pharmacy in 1895.

In 1899 he entered the Yale Medical School, and after
graduating from the latter spent nearly two years in the
New Haven Hospital, and then for a short time had an
office in New Haven. For several years after this he was
a commercial traveler, and since 1909 was manager and a
partner in the drug store of William Roschen in New
York City.

He was married, but during the last year of his life had
been separated from his wife.

Dr. Lavalaye died after an operation for appendicitis at
the New York Polyclinic Hospital, July 21, 1911, in the
37th year of his age. He was buried in Thomaston, Conn.
He was a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

1904

Francis William Wrinn, son of James Wrinn, for
many years Chief of Police of New Haven, Conn.,
was born in New Haven, March 31, 1877. His mother
was Mary Wrinn. Before beginning the study of medicine
he attended the New Haven High School and the
Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn.

After graduation from the Yale Medical School he
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and then settled in Astoria, L. I., N. Y., where he was
winning success in his profession.

Dr. Wrinn died at the home of his sister, at Silver Sands,
East Haven, Conn., July 17, 191 1, after an illness of
several months from a complication of diseases. He was
34 years of age, and unmarried. A sister and two brothers
survive him.

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1868

Edward Frank DeForest, son of William H. and
Sophronia (Barker) DeForest, was born in New Haven,
Conn., July 20, 1846.

For a year after graduation from the Law School he had
a law office in New Haven, then practiced two years in
Decatur, 111. He then became connected with the North
Missouri Insurance Co., and in 1874 went into fire insur-
ance business in Chicago. From February, 1882, to 1902
he was in Chicago, as general Western agent and adjuster
of the Farmer's Fire Insurance Co. of York, Pa., but had
since been that company's representative in Boston, Mass.

Mr. DeForest died in Boston, of apoplexy after two
years of ill health, December 12, 191 1. He was 65 years
of age.

He married in Madison, Wise, September 8, 1884, Alma
L., daughter of Andrew J. Pierce. She died at Elgin, 111.,
March 25, 1895, and, July 6, 1901, he married at Windsor,
Canada, Marietta, daughter of Rev. John R. and Jennie
(Given) Reasoner, of Elmwood, 111., who survives him.
They had no children.

1874

Ebenezer Burr, son of Ebenezer and Julia Maria
(Beers) Burr, was born August 3, 1849, at Fairfield, Conn.
After attending the Fairfield Academy he entered the Law
School in 1872.

After graduation he practiced law for many years. In
1880 he took up his residence in Bridgeport, and also
engaged in banking and insurance business with Herbert
M. Knapp, Esq., in the firm of Burr & Knapp. He was a
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1879, clerk of the Bridgeport City Court from 1881 to
1883, also in 1886 and 1887, and Judge of the City Court
in 1884.

His health had been failing for several years, and he died
of paralysis with complications in Bridgeport, August 16,
191 1, at the age of 62 years.

He married at Burlington, Vt., October 15, 1879, Mary
Hammond Nichols, daughter of Dr. Benjamin Smith
Nichols (hon. M.A. Univ. Vt. 1859) and Lucy Hammond
(Penfield) Nichols. She survives him with a son and
daughter, an elder daughter having died in 1893.

i875

George Matthews Sharp, son of Alpheus P. and Annie
(Matthews) Sharp, was born November 17, 1851, in Balti-
more, Md. His father, who died in 1909, was one of the
founders of the firm of Sharp & Dohme, manufacturing
chemists in Baltimore.

Before entering the Yale Law School he attended private
schools and took a partial course in Loyola College, Balti-
more, and while in New Haven, in addition to his law
studies, took special studies in history, political economy,
and English literature under College professors.

From 1888 to 1900 he was Lecturer on Insurance in the
Yale Law School, and in 1901-02 at the Law School of
Georgetown University. He received the honorary degree
of Master of Arts from Yale in 1889, and Doctor of Laws
from Washington (Md.) College in 1907.

After his graduation he soon established a successful
practice. In 1888 he was nominated for the Supreme
Bench of Baltimore, and in 1891 for attorney-general of
Maryland, but failed of election then to either office. In
1897, however, he was elected one of the associate judges
of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore, for the full term of
fifteen years. In 1907, he was appointed by President

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Roosevelt a visitor to the U. S. Naval Academy, but owing
to the provisions of the Maryland law relating to judges
and their duties was obliged to decline the appointment.

Judge Sharp was chairman of the Committee on Legal
Education of the American Bar Association at the time
of his death, and for about eight years served as secretary
of the Section on Legal Education of that Association.
By his energetic and persistent work he greatly aided in
securing through the action of the Association higher
standards for admission to the bar.

Judge Sharp died from a complication of diseases after
an illness of five months at his home in Baltimore, July 7,
191 1, in his 60th year. He never married. He was a
member of the Society of Friends.

1880

William Vanlier Childs, son of Judge John W.
Childs (B.A. DePauw Univ. 1845) and Sarah (McClure)
Childs, was born at New Albany, Ind., September 29, 1854.

In 1 87 1 his parents removed to Kansas City, Mo., where
he received his preparatory education in the public schools,
and then took a literary course in DePauw University.

He was a practicing attorney before coming to Yale, and
was a member of the Law School only in Senior year.

After graduation he was engaged in general practice in
Kansas City. For three years he was United States Com-
missioner, after which he lived some years in Colorado and
Florida on account of serious trouble with his eyes. He
wrote in prose and verse for the magazines and newspapers.

His death occurred in Kansas City, September 6, 19 10,
after an illness of two months from typhoid fever. He was
in his 56th year.

He married, March 15, 1904, Elizabeth Gibson Christie,
daughter of I. L. and Louise (Wilson) Christie of Neosho,
Mo., who survives him.

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l883

Cormac Francis Bohan, son of Paul and Bridget Ellen
(McCanna) Bohan, was born in Pittston, Pa., December
14, 1862. His father was for several years before his death
in 1900 vice-president of the People's Savings Bank of
Pittston. His preparatory course was taken in Wyoming
Seminary at Kingston, Pa.

Immediately after graduation from the Law School he
was admitted to the bar in New Haven, then entered the
law office of Hon. Garrick M. Harding (B.A. Dickinson
1848) in Pittston, and was admitted to the Pennsylvania
bar, March 14, 1884. He was city solicitor of Pittston
from 1895 to 1901, and a delegate to the Democratic
National Convention in Kansas City, Mo., in 1900. He
was a director of the Miners' Savings Bank in Pittston.

After several months' illness Mr. Bohan died of pneu-
monia at his home in Pittston, December 2, 191 1, in the 49th
year of his age. He was a member of the Roman Catholic
Church.

He married at Pittston, April 25, 1899, Mary Genevieve,
daughter of Michael Reap, president of the Miners' Savings
Bank. They had two sons and three daughters, of whom
the sons and one daughter with Mrs. Bohan survive him.
A brother graduated from the Yale Law School in 189 1.

1889

John Ambrose Doolittle was born in New Haven,
Conn., August 23, 1867. He was the son of Tilton Edwin
Doolittle (B.A. Trinity 1844; LL.B. Yale 1846), for many
years state's attorney for New Haven County, and Mary A.
(Cook) Doolittle. His grandfather was Ambrose E.
Doolittle, of Cheshire, Conn.

He was prepared for college at the Episcopal Academy
in Cheshire, Conn, (now Cheshire School) and the Hop-
kins Grammar School, New Haven, and then entered the

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Sheffield Scientific School, taking the course in Civil Engi-
neering, but left in Junior year, and in September, 1887,
entered the Law School.

After graduation he practiced law in New Haven until
1898, being assistant while his father held the office of
state's attorney. From 1894 to 1897 he was a police com-
missioner in New Haven. In 1896 he engaged in general
contracting work with headquarters in Long Island City,
N. Y., but had lately given his attention to his farm on
Cook Hill, in Wallingford, Conn., where he died of pneu-
monia following the grippe, March 3, 19 12. He was in the
45th year of his age. He was a member of the Protestant
Episcopal Church.

He married at Pueblo, Colo., October 27, 1892, Mary
Rayhill Mattice, daughter of Benjamin Mattice (B.A.
Amherst 1856) and Sarah Leonora (Rayhill) Mattice.
They were afterward divorced. A daughter and son
survive him. His brother graduated from the Yale Medical
School in 1884, and his sister married P. Carr Lane (M.D.
Washington Univ. 1882).

1892

Henry Arthur Huntington, son of Alonzo C. Hunt-
ington, a blacksmith, and Priscilla E. (Strickland) Hunt-
ington, was born March 2, 1865, in Poquonock, a village
in Windsor, Conn. After a course in the Windsor Acad-
emy, he studied law in the office of Michael M. O'Sul-
livan, Esq., of Windsor, and of Hon. Seneca O. Griswold,
formerly of Cleveland, O., and then taught in the Windsor
public schools.

After his graduation from the Law School he spent a
year in the office of Hyde, Gross & Hyde in Hartford,
Conn., and since then had practiced by himself in that city.

He served his native town as justice of the peace, town
clerk from October 1, 1894, to October 5, 1903, and clerk of

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the Probate Court from October 29, 1903, until his death.
In 191 1 he was elected by a large majority a Republican
member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, in
which he was a leading member of the Judiciary Committee.

Mr. Huntington died of appendicitis at his home in
Windsor, March 7, 1912. He was 47 years of age. The
burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford.

He married at Windsor, February 28, 1900, Mary M.,
daughter of Horace D. Clark, a lawyer, and Margaret
M. (Conor) Clark, who survives him with two sons and a
daughter.

1893

Dana Pitt Foster, son of Reuben Foster (B.A. Colby
1855) and Dorcas C. (Howe) Foster, was born August 28,
1869, in Waterville, Me. His father, who died in
1898, was a lawyer, speaker of the Maine House of
Representatives in 1870 and president of the Senate in
1871.

He graduated in 1891 from Colby College. There and
later he was prominent as a baseball player.

After his graduation from the Law School he was
admitted to the Maine bar, and practiced in Waterville.
He was recorder of the Municipal Court and city clerk,
also a bank director.

He died suddenly of heart failure at his home in Water-
ville, September 19, 191 1, at the age of 42 years. He was
a member of the Unitarian Church.

He married at Woodfords, Me., October 22, 1894, Ade-
laide Dix Hopkins, daughter of George A. Hopkins, of
Milbridge, Me., who survives him with two daughters.

1908

Beverly Blalock Thomasson, son of James Jefferson
Thomasson, a lawyer, newspaper editor and publisher, and
Amanda (Blalock) Thomasson, was born February 13,

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297

1883, at Okolona, Ark. He attended the Tom Allen High
School at Prescott in that state but then removed with his
family to their old home in Carrollton, Ga. He spent two
years in the Law Department of the University of Georgia,
from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in
1907, then entered the Yale Law School for the Senior
year. He had learned the printer's trade while a boy work-
ing on his father's newspaper, and largely paid his own way
during his law course.

In January after his graduation from Yale he began
the practice of his profession in Carrollton, entering into
partnership the following December with Hon. W. D.
Hamrick, whose decease occurred two weeks before his
own.

Mr. Thomasson had appeared to be in perfect health
until a few months before his death, when he was taken
with tuberculosis, dying at his home in Carrollton, June
12, 191 1, at the age of 28 years. He was unmarried. His
parents, five brothers, and three sisters survive him. He
was a member of the Methodist Church.

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1852

George Jarvis Brush, son of Jarvis Brush, a commission
and importing merchant, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
December 15, 1831. His mother was Sarah (Keeler)
Brush, a native of Ridgefield, Conn. His early education
was obtained in Brooklyn, in Danbury, Conn., where the
family lived from 1835 to 1841, and in the Cream Hill
Agricultural School at Cornwall, Conn., under Theodore S.
Gold (B.A. Yale 1838). In accordance with family tradi-
tions he looked forward to a business life, and entered a
mercantile house in Maiden Lane, New York City, but after
about two years serious illness compelled him to seek an
outdoor life, and it was decided that he should take up farm-
ing. This decision brought him to Yale in 1848 for the
course in agricultural chemistry then taught by Professor
John Pitkin Norton. His name appears in the College cata-
logue of that year as a student in the "School of Applied
Chemistry." He left in 1850 to become assistant in chem-
istry to Professor Benjamin Silliman, Jr., at Louisville,
Ky., but in 1852, after passing a special examination, he
received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy just
established. The same year he was made an assistant in
chemistry at the University of Virginia, and with Professor
J. Lawrence Smith did his first important work in mineral-
ogy, the result of their joint studies appearing in the
American Journal of Science in a series of articles entitled
"Reexamination of American Minerals."

During the spring and summer of 1851 he traveled
in Europe with the party of the elder Professor Benjamin
Silliman, and in 1853 he went abroad again, and spent
two years of study in Germany in the laboratories at
Munich and Freiberg. In the fall of 1855 he was elected
Professor of Metallurgy in the Scientific Department of

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299

Yale College, and in order further to qualify himself for
the position he studied several months in the Royal School
of Mines in London, England, and the following year visited
the chief mines and smelting works of Great Britain and
the Continent. Returning to this country in December,

1856, he assumed the duties of his professorship in January,

1857. In 1864 Mineralogy was added to his chair, and
this he retained thereafter, but gave up Metallurgy in
1871. He became Professor Emeritus in 1898. From
1867 to 1874 he was also Curator of the Mineralogical
Collection.

He was deeply interested in scientific study and research
and in the development of the Scientific Department of
the College, which on account of the gifts of Mr. Joseph
E. Sheffield was named in 1861 the Sheffield Scientific
School. From 1872 to 1898 he was Director of the School,
which benefited greatly by the unusual blending in him
of the gifts of both scholar and organizer.

From 1886 to 1899 he was a member of the University
Finance Committee, and he was also one of the original
trustees of the Peabody Museum of Natural History named
by Mr. George Peabody in his deed of gift of 1866.

Through his active interest the mineral locality at Branch-
ville, Conn., was thoroughly explored, and the results of
the investigation were published in collaboration with
Professor Edward S. Dana in a series of papers. The
work also involved a series of chemical analyses by Samuel
L. Penfield (Ph.B. Yale 1877), then a graduate student
in the School, who later succeeded Professor Brush in the
chair of Mineralogy.

Professor Brush wrote the eighth, ninth and tenth
supplements to the fourth edition (1854) of Dana's
"System of Mineralogy," also assisted in the fifth edition
of that book and wrote its first appendix. In 1874 he
published his "Determinative Mineralogy and Blowpipe
Analysis," which after passing through fourteen editions

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was revised by Professor Penfield in 1898. He prepared
about thirty scientific papers, nearly all of which may be
found in the American Journal of Science, of which he was
one of the associate editors from 1863 to 1879. In the
number of the Journal for May, 19 12, is an article
commemorative of Professor Brush by Professor Edward
S. Dana.

In 1904 he gave to the Sheffield Scientific School the
"Brush Mineral Collection" with a fund for its maintenance,
and also a large mineralogical library. The collection
is notable for its completeness for purposes of scientific
study, and for its type specimens.

He was a member of many scientific societies in the
United States and abroad. In 1868 he was elected to the
National Academy of Sciences, and in 1881 was president
of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, before which he gave the presidential address in
Montreal in 1882. In 1862 he was made a corresponding
member of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, in
1866 a member of the Imperial Mineralogical Society of St.
Petersburg, and in 1877 a foreign correspondent of the
Geological Society of London and the Geological Society
of Edinburgh. He was also an honorary member of the
Mineralogical Society of England.

He received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale
University in 1857, and of Doctor of Laws from Harvard
University in 1886.

He had been a director of the New York, New Haven
& Hartford Railroad Co. since 1893, also of the City
Bank of New Haven, and was vice-president of the New
Haven Savings Bank, president of the Howe Manufactur-
ing Co. of Derby, Conn., and a director of the Jackson
Iron Co. in the Lake Superior district.

Professor Brush died at his home in New Haven,
February 6, 1912, at the age of 80 years. He had suffered
for nearly a year from heart trouble. He was the last

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survivor of his class, which was the first to receive the
degree of Bachelor of Philosophy at Yale and of which his
life-long friend Professor Brewer was also a member, and
the last of the group of noted men who in the early days
of the Scientific School had given their lives to its service.
He was a member of the College Church, joining it
February 5, i860.

He married at Washington, D. C, December 23, 1864,
Harriet Silliman Trumbull, daughter of John M. and
Hannah W. (Tunis) Trumbull, great-granddaughter of the
elder Governor Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut, and
sister of Rev. David Trumbull, D.D. (B.A. Yale 1842),
who was for over forty years a missionary in Valparaiso,
Chile. Mrs. Brush died in 19 10, but their three daughters
survive. The daughters married respectively Professor
Louis V. Pirsson (Ph.B. Yale 1882), Professor Edward
T. McLaughlin (B.A. Yale 1883), and Rev. Edward L.
Parsons (B.A. Yale 1889).

1864

Edwin Wallace Carpenter, youngest and last sur-
viving child of Thacher Bird Carpenter, a merchant and
manufacturer in New Haven, and Susan P. (Fuller) Car-
penter, was born April 21, 1841, in Foxboro, Mass. He
was prepared for the Sheffield Scientific School at the
Collegiate and Commercial Institute of General William H.
Russell (B.A. Yale 1833) m New Haven.

After graduation he was Assistant in Mathematics in
the Scientific School for two terms and at the same time
studied law. At the height of the gold excitement in
Montana in 1865 he made a journey there, spending two
months in going by steamboat on the Missouri River from
St. Louis to Fort Benton, a distance of 3150 miles. He
lived in Montana nine years and was business manager of
the Helena Daily Herald, was a correspondent of the New
York Tribune, and connected with other papers. In 1866

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he was clerk of the court for the Third Judicial District
of Montana, in 1872-73 treasurer of Lewis and Clark
County, and in 1874 county superintendent of public
instruction. In 1875 ne removed to California and was
engaged in the fire insurance business in San Francisco
for nineteen years. For a time he was assistant secretary
of the Firemen's Fund Insurance Co., and later manager
for the Pacific Coast of the Royal and Norwich Union
Companies of England. In 1904 he retired from active
business. He had been around the world and from the
North Cape to New Zealand.

In 1864 an article of his was published in Harper's
Magazine, and in 1873 two articles in the Overland
Monthly. He also wrote frequently for fire insurance
publications.

Mr. Carpenter had become entirely blind. He died from
gas asphyxiation at Providence, R. I., November 2, 1909,
at the age of 68 years.

He married at Fort Benton, Mont., May 31, 1868,
Josephine Grace, daughter of Lewis Edwin Shelley, a
carriage manufacturer of New Haven, and had one son.
Mrs. Carpenter died in 1910.

1870

Evelyn Pierrepont Roberts, son of Major-General
Benjamin Stone Roberts, who was Instructor in Military
Science in the Sheffield Scientific School from 1868 to
1870, and Elizabeth Pierrepont (Sperry) Roberts, was born
at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., December 25, 1848.

He was prepared for Yale in the Hopkins Grammar
School in New Haven, and took the Engineering course in
the Sheffield Scientific School. He was enrolled with his
class in 1899.

In the summer of 1870 he was assistant engineer on the
Dansville & Mt. Morris Railroad in western New York, and
then spent fifteen years in engineering work in the West.

1864-1873 3°3

From 1870 to 1875 he was assistant engineer on the
Northern Pacific Railroad, the next five years on the
Spring Valley Water Works for San Francisco, and then
contracting engineer on the Canadian Pacific Railway in
British Columbia five years. From 1885 to 1893 he was
in charge of reconnoissance for the New York Aqueduct
Commission, and then spent three years building dams and
reservoirs on the Croton water shed, after which he was
in private practice in New York City till 1902. From 1902
to 1906 he was engaged in developing the property of the
Mohegan Granite Quarrying Co. in Westchester County,
N. Y., of which he had been president and general manager
since about 1896. He constructed the elevated portion of
the New York Subway, and the great granite arches of
the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. He also engaged
in the construction and operation of railways in various
parts of the country.

He published "A History of the New York Water
Supply" in the Engineering Nezvs, October, 1892, also
many professional papers.

Mr. Roberts died suddenly of heart failure at Peekskill,
N. Y., December 30, 1910, at the age of 62 years. He
was buried in Manchester, Vt.

He married in New York City, July 5, 1903, Helen
Francis Caleb of Elkton, Md., daughter of Vincent Shepard
Caleb, a steel manufacturer of Chicago, and Amanda
Lyle (Beckley) Caleb. She survives him with a son.

He was a trustee of the Jerry McAuley Cremorne
Mission.

1873

Amory Edwards Rowland, son of Henry and Elizabeth
Tappen (Edwards) Rowland, was born July 2, 1852, in
Brooklyn, N. Y. He was fitted for college in the school
of Professor J. C. Overhiser in that city, and took the

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course in Mechanical Engineering in the Sheffield Scientific
School.

After graduation he gained experience in practical
mechanics in the Continental Iron Works in Brooklyn, and
was connected with the firm of F. C. & A. E. Rowland
in New Haven and its successor, the Rowland Machine
Co., about thirty-five years, having been secretary and
treasurer of the latter since 1906.

He was a trustee of the New Haven Savings Bank,
director and assistant secretary of the New Haven Colony
Historical Society for twenty years, director of the New
Haven City Missionary Association during the twenty-two
years since it was started, and a member of its executive
committee, director for many years of the Organized
Charities Association, and for fifteen years its secretary,
and deacon of the Center Church from 1888 to 1910. He
had a summer home in Fairfield, Conn., where he was
trustee of the Public Library.

Mr. Rowland died at his home in New Haven, May 7,
19 12, in the 60th year of his age. He had been ill for two
years. The burial was in Fairfield.

He married in Stratford, Conn., December 27, 1882,
Grace, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Mills) Talbot,
who survives him. They had no children. One brother
was for a time a member of the class of 1871, in the
Academical Department, another brother was a graduate
of Princeton University in 1872, and a sister is the wife '
of William J. Forbes (B.A. Yale 1877).

1874

Charles James Morse, second son of Henry Kirtland
Morse and Mary (Lynn) Morse, was born July 7, 1852,
at Poland, O. His grandfather had settled in the Western
Reserve, going there from Wallingford, Conn. He was a
grand nephew of Dr. Jared P. Kirtland (M.D. Yale 1815),
in whose memory Kirtland Hall was named.

305

He studied in Poland Union Seminary and worked two
years with the city engineer of Youngstown, O., then
entered the Sheffield Scientific School in the winter of 187 1,
taking the course in Civil Engineering.

Upon graduation he was Assistant in Surveying in the
School for a year, and in 1877 received the degree of Civil
Engineer from Yale University.

Taking up construction work in the summer of 1875 he
became assistant engineer for the Wrought Iron Bridge
Co. at Canton, O., and during 1876 and 1877 was engineer
of the Massillon (O.) Bridge Co. With his brother, Henry
G. Morse (Troy Polytechnic Inst. 1871), he founded the
Morse Bridge Co. of Youngstown, O., in 1878. With this
he was actively engaged for ten years, when the works were
destroyed by fire. In 1889 he visited Europe with members
of the American Society of Civil Engineers and other
national societies. In 1890-91 he was manager of the Asso-
ciation of Bridge Builders, with an office in Chicago. Dur-
ing the latter year he became the consulting engineer and
western representative of the Edgemoor Bridge Works of
Wilmington, Del., and removed to Evanston, 111. He had
charge of the construction of the Manufacturers Building
at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, the Columbia River
Bridge for the Great Northern Railway, the replacement of
the Roebling Suspension Bridge at Covington, Ky., without
suspension of travel, and many other important bridges and
other structures.

In order to study oriental art, in which he had for a
number of years been interested, he retired from profes-
sional work in 1897, and spent a year in Japan, visiting the
great temples, museums, and private collections there. On
returning home he continued his studies at Evanston,
employing Japanese scholars to translate the ancient litera-
ture on the subject. In 1905 he visited Europe, and Japan
again in 1907. During his years of study he collected
paintings, prints, pottery, and other objects of Chinese and

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Japanese art, and a library of eight thousand volumes relat-
ing to art and art history, for which he built a fireproof
library and vault adjoining his home. He was a member of
the Royal Asiatic Society and the Asiatic Society of Japan.

Several years after his retirement he returned temporarily
to engineering work, and with Julian Kennedy (Ph.B. Yale
1875) and others, bought a large tract of coal land near
Uniontown in Pennsylvania, where during the years 1902
to 1904 he constructed great coke works for the Orient Coal
and Coke Co.

After years of suffering Mr. Morse died from myocarditis
at his home in Evanston, December 6, 191 1, at the age of
59 years.

He married at Youngstown, O., October 16, 1884, Annie
Perkins Woodbridge, daughter of Dr. Timothy Woodbridge
and Isabella (McCurdy) Woodbridge. Mrs. Morse survives
him with their eldest son, Jared Kirtland Morse (Ph.B. Yale
1908), twin sons having died. A brother, Edwin K. Morse,
graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1881.

Francis Hill Stillman, son of Paul and Lydia
(Rogers) Stillman, was born February 20, 1850, in New
York City. After study in a preparatory school at
Milton, Wise, and an apprenticeship with the Cottrell
Printing Press Co. in Westerly, R. L, he took the course
in Mechanical Engineering in the Sheffield Scientific School.

Upon graduation he entered the business of E. Lyon,
who in 1883 was succeeded by the Watson-Stillman Co.,
manufacturers of hydraulic machinery in New York City,
and of this company he had been president since its incor-
poration in 1904. He was also president of the Bridgeport
(Conn.) Motor Co., and president of the Pequonnock
Commercial Co., of Bridgeport. He organized the
Machinery Club of New York and was its first president,
was the first president of the National Metal Trades
Association, treasurer and a director of the National

1874-1875

3°7

Association of Manufacturers from 1903, and a director
of the Manufacturers' Association of New York. He
served many years at different periods on the membership
committee of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers.

Mr. Stillman died suddenly of intestinal hemorrhage at
his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., February 18, 1912, in the
626. year of his age.

He married in Boston, Mass., January 5, 1881, Irene
Augusta, daughter of William Henry and Elizabeth
Sprague Bancroft. She survives him with two sons, grad-
uates of Cornell University in 1907 and 1908, respectively.

1875

William Cornelius Hall, one of the eleven children
of Edward Julius and Mary (Hoey) Hall, was born
January 23, 1855, at New Orleans, La., the home of his
maternal grandmother. Through his grandmother, Sarah
(Buckingham) Hall, he was descended from Rev. Thomas
Buckingham, one of the first trustees of Yale College. He
was fitted for Yale at a private school in Buffalo, N. Y.,
his father being a manufacturer there, and president of the
Bell Telephone Co.

In the Sheffield Scientific School he took the Civil
Engineering course. He was president of his class, and
stroke of the University Crew.

After graduation he entered his father's business, but
in 1880 organized the Perth Amboy (N. J.) Terra Cotta
Co., of which he was president and general manager. He
invented a machine for making bricks which has been
adopted by manufacturers. He was also a director of the
New York Knife Co.

Mr. Hall had resided in New York City for twenty years.
He was a member of the Arts Club, the Municipal Art
Society, and the New York Sculptors' Society. He retired

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from business in 1905, and died from paralysis at his
home June 6, 191 1. He was 55 years of age.

He married at Perth Amboy, September 8, 1880, Marie
Suzette de Martigny Thomas, daughter of Philip Evan
Thomas, and had two sons, one of them a graduate of the
Academical Department in 1904, and two daughters,
who with Mrs. Hall survive him. One daughter married
Walter B. Allen (B.A. Yale 1901) and the other Charles
S. Dewey (Ph.B. Yale 1904). Two brothers graduated
from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1873 an<^ x895,
respectively.

Edward Austin Kent, son of Henry Mellen Kent and
Harriet May (Farnham) Kent, was born in Bangor, Me.,
February 19, 1854. His father was a merchant, of the
firm of Flint & Kent, in Buffalo. He was prepared for
Yale at the Briggs Classical School in Buffalo, N. Y., and
entered the Sheffield Scientific School from that city, taking
the Civil Engineering course.

After graduation he studied architecture at the Ecole
des Beaux Arts in Paris and later at South Kensington,
England, returning to this country in 1877 an<^ went into
the office of Mr. J. L. Sillsbee in Syracuse, N. Y. Shortly
afterward he entered the employ of the government
architect in Washington, D. C, and remained there two
years. He then removed to Chicago, where he was
associated with his former employer, Mr. Sillsbee, under
the name of Sillsbee & Kent, but since 1884 had been most
of the time in Buffalo, where he designed the First
Unitarian Church, and many public buildings and private
residences. He also acted as an expert in the construction
of the Board of Trade Building in Toronto, Canada. He
was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Architects
in 1885, and had been president of the Buffalo Chapter.
He was a delegate to the International Congress of
Architects at Vienna in 1908, and a member of the Town

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Planning Conference in London in 1910. He was active
in organizations for improved civic conditions and better
housing.

Mr. Kent had gone abroad in February, intending on
his return to retire from his profession, but lost his life
in the sinking of the Titanic, April 15, 1912. He was 58
years of age, and unmarried. He was a member of the
First Unitarian Church of Buffalo, where a memorial
service was held April 27. His body was recovered and
buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo.

1876

Thomas Yeatman, son of Thomas and Lucretia (Pope)
Yeatman, was born March 22, 1856, in St. Louis, Mo.
After four years of study in the Hopkins Grammar School,
New Haven, he took the Select course in the Sheffield
Scientific School.

Upon his graduation he studied law and practiced for a
time. He was also a journalist connected with the St. Louis
Post Despatch for several years.

Mr. Yeatman died at Tampa, Fla., November 2, 191 1,
at the age of 55 years.

1879

John Currier Gallagher, son of James and Miranda
Lucinda (Pease) Gallagher, was born August 24, 1857, in
New Haven, Conn. His father was a manufacturer who
removed from Baltimore, Md., to New Haven in 1842, was
a leader of the Democratic party in Connecticut for fifty
years, and state representative and senator for several terms.

After three years of study in the Hopkins Grammar
School he took the Select course in the Sheffield Scientific
School.

In 1 88 1 on completing the course in the Yale Law School
he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws and at once

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entered the office of Professor William C. Robinson, LL.D.
(hon. M.A. 1881), afterward Dean of the Law School of
the Catholic University of America, with whom he remained
six years. Mr. Gallagher then formed a partnership with
his Law School classmate, Hon. Livingston W. Cleaveland.
On the latter's election as judge of probate of the New
Haven District, in 1894, he at once appointed Mr. Gallagher
chief clerk. From 1897 to 1907 Mr. Gallagher was assistant
clerk of the Superior Court, and since then had been clerk
of that court.

He held a number of municipal offices, being a council-
man in 1883 and 1884, and president of the board of
councilmen in 1884; alderman in 1893 and 1894, and presi-
dent of that body in 1894. From 1891 to 1909 he was
secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of New Haven.
He was also secretary of the Democratic State Central
Committee from 1882 to 1886, and president of the Young
Men's Democratic Club of New Haven in 1888. He was
a member of many fraternal orders, among whose members
he was known for his eloquence and magnetism, and in
recent years he had become notable as a speaker at political
gatherings and public dinners.

Mr. Gallagher was taken ill on the train while returning
from Cincinnati, where he had attended a meeting of the
American Order of United Workmen, and died from
Bright's disease the following day, March 29, 1912, at his
home in New Haven. He was 54 years of age. He was
a member of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church, New
Haven, and had been clerk of the parish for about ten years.

He married at New Haven, June 28, 1888, Laura
Catherine, daughter of George Ellsworth and Cornelia
Gaylord (Dickerman) Ives, who died February 3, 1900,
leaving two daughters and a son. One of the daughters is
a student in Smith College, and the other in Vassar.

April 8, 1 90 1, Mr. Gallagher married in New Haven
Bessie Katherine, daughter of John and Catherine (Ross)

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Radigan, who survives him with a son. Two brothers are
also living, one a graduate of the Yale Medical School in
1864.

Rufus Henry Skeel, youngest of the nine children of
Rufus Reed Skeel, a New York dry goods merchant, and
Sarah Patten (Henry) Skeel, was born February 9, 1859,
in Newburgh, N. Y. Upon finishing his preparation at
Siglar's School in his native city he took the course in
Mechanical Engineering in the Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he engaged in the wholesale tea
business in New York and Providence, R. I., wholesale
grocery, salt, asphalt and real estate business, but since
his retirement from business on account of poor health in
1889 he had lived in the family homestead in Newburgh,
managing part of his father's estate and agricultural
interests. He died there suddenly of. kidney and heart
disease, February 12, 191 2, at the age of 53 years. He
was unmarried. A brother, who graduated from the
Sheffield Scientific School in 1865, is deceased, but two
sisters survive him.

1889

Danford Newton Barney Sturgis, son of Russell
Sturgis (hon. M.A. Yale 1872), architect and author, and
Sarah M. (Barney) Sturgis, was born October 29, 1866,
in New York City. He was fitted for Yale abroad under
tutors, and after attending Columbia University three years
joined his class in the Sheffield Scientific School in the fall
of Junior year, taking the Civil Engineering course.

He studied for three years after graduation in the offices
of architects. Soon after 1890 he opened an office for
the practice of architecture. In 1892 he became a member
of the firm of Sturgis & Hale, but since 1910 he associated
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Sturgis & Faxon. For several years from 1895 he was an
examiner to the municipal Civil Service Commission of
New York City. In 1900 he was acting assistant editor of
the "Dictionary of Architecture and Building," of which
his father was general editor, and he also assisted him on
other publications.

Mr. Sturgis died suddenly at Millbrook, N. Y., August
19, 191 1, in the 45th year of his age.

He married at Fairhaven, Mass., September 4, 1899,
Minna W., daughter of Theodore Thomas (Mus.D. Yale
1880) and Minna L. (Rhodes) Thomas, who survives him.
A cousin, bearing the name Danford Newton Barney,
graduated from the Academical Department in 1881, and
another cousin, Danford Newton Sturgis Barney, died just
before finishing his course in the Sheffield Scientific School,
but was enrolled with the class of 1897. His brother,
Edward B. Sturgis, received the degree of Mechanical
Engineer from Columbia University in 1895.

1893

Henry Failing Conner, son of John Conner, a banker,
and Elizabeth (Failing) Conner, was born November 7,
1873, at Albany, Ore., but spent his early years in Port-
land, Ore. He was prepared for Yale at Cincinnati, O.,
and took the Select course in the Sheffield Scientific School.

Two years after graduation he received the degree of
Bachelor of Laws from the New York Law School. Janu-
ary 1, 1896, he began practice in the legal department of
the Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. in Portland, and
continued there until 1910, when he resigned on account
of his health. In 1906 he was president of the University
Club of Portland, and he was a member of the Grolier Club
of New York.

Mr. Conner died of pneumonia in Berlin, Germany,
March 5, 1912. He was 38 years of age, and had never
married.

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i8g4

Edward Clifton Hall, son of Alexander Hall, a
merchant, and Mary (Snyder) Hall, was born June 28,
1874, in Tilton, Ala. Upon the death of his father in
1881 his mother removed to Wallingford, Conn., where he
was prepared for Yale in the High School. He took the
course in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in the
Sheffield Scientific School.

On graduation he spent a year and a half as a student
with the Westinghouse Electric Co. in Pittsburgh, Pa., and
six months with the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. In July,
1896, he went to North Dakota, where he lived two years
at Medora, part of the time on a ranch. In June, 1898,
he enlisted in Washington, D. C, as a member of the
Rough Riders for service in the Spanish-American War,
but while at Tampa, Fla., hoping for active service in Cuba,
he was taken with typhoid fever, and was removed to Fort
McPherson Hospital, Georgia. He did not recover until
after his regiment was mustered out of service.

In December, 1898, he entered the works of the General
Electric Co. at Lynn, Mass., as a designing engineer on
transformers, but since February, 1901, had been in the
general offices of the company at Schenectady, N. Y.

Mr. Hall died at his home in that city, July 12, 191 1,
at the age of 37 years.

He married at Schenectady, October 18, 1905, Mabel,
daughter of Frederick Horstmann, who survives him with
their daughter. A sister is also living.

1896

Lemuel Robert Hopton, son of Thomas and Anne
(Dickson) Hopton, was born June 20, 1873, m Bridgeport,
Conn. After two years in the New Haven High School
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Co., and during this time was fitted for the Scientific School
under a tutor. In his Freshman year he excelled in all
his work, and for his work in Senior year won the prize
in mechanical engineering-. He was one of the editors of
the Yale Scientific Monthly, and chairman of the Class
Historians.

After graduation he continued his studies in the School
for two years, receiving the degree of Mechanical Engineer
in 1898, and during that time was also Assistant in
Mechanical Engineering.

He then became superintendent for Carl H. Schutz,
Incorporated, manufacturers of gas fixtures in New York
City, and remained with that company till 1900, when he
became assistant superintendent of the Oxley Enos Manu-
facturing Company of New York City. The following year
the firm name was changed to The Enos Company, and
since July, 1901, he had been superintendent of the com-
pany. He had charge of the factory which the company
built in 1903. Several electrical devices of his for lighting
gas have proved useful inventions.

Until 1903 he resided in New York City, but since then
his home had been in Plainfield, N. J.

He was elected a member of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers in 1899, and was also a member of
the Mechanical Illuminating Engineers' Society.

He was a member of the Crescent Avenue Presbyterian
Church in Plainfield, and was for several years
superintendent of its Sunday School.

Mr. Hopton died at Garrison-on-the-Hudson, N. Y.,
September 5, 191 1, after an illness of about three months
from nervous trouble. He was 38 years of age.

He married in New Haven, April 4, 1900, Louise Spencer
Fitch, daughter of Joseph T. and Josephine (Merwin)
Fitch. She survives him with their two sons.

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1897

Hubert Asahel Lane, son of Hiram W. Lane, a real
estate broker, and Elizabeth (Ferrier) Lane, was born
March 2, 1877, at Russell, Pa., but came to Yale from
Catskill, N. Y., where he was prepared at the Catskill
Academy.

He took the Biological course in the Sheffield Scientific
School, and after graduation spent two years in the Yale
Medical School, but on the death of his father in 1899 left
to take charge of his flour and feed business. In the fall
of 1900 he went West, and engaged in mining in Colorado
and Utah, for a time having charge of the Eureka-Ophie
Consolidated Mining Co. of Stockton, Utah. Since
August, 1904, he had been in West Virginia, at first in
connection with the Valley Fork Coal Co., and then as
mining engineer with the Mohawk Coal Co. and the Cecil
Coal and Coke Co. of Cecil, W. Va.

Mr. Lane died at Craig, Mo., September 26, 191 1, at the
age of 34 years.

He married, July 11, 1900, Blanche Prue Cooke,
daughter of William Cooke, of Warren, Pa.

Harry Darlington McCandless, son of Major William
Graham McCandless and Elizabeth Frame (Johnson)
McCandless, was born December 10, 1873, in Pittsburgh,
Pa. He was fitted for Yale at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass., and was a member of his class baseball nine in Fresh-
man year. He took the Select course in the Sheffield
Scientific School.

After graduation he engaged in the window glass busi-
ness, at first with the Chambers Glass Co., and was after-
ward assistant secretary of the American Window Glass Co.
In 1902 he became a partner in the fire insurance firm of
W. G. McCandless & Sons.

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Mr. McCandless died of pneumonia in Pittsburgh,
March 26, 1912. He was 38 years of age, and not married.
His mother and a brother survive him.

1901

Allen Gard, son of William Edgar Gard (Ph.B. Yale
1877) and Mary (Allen) Gard, was born July 10, 1881, in
Baltimore, Md. He was fitted for Yale at Pratt Institute
in Brooklyn, N. Y., and took the Biological course in the
Sheffield Scientific School.

Immediately after graduation he was appointed supervisor
of the United States government schools in the island of
Luzon, in the Philippine Islands, and then principal of sec-
ondary schools in Zamboanga. After four years of teaching
he was appointed secretary of the District of Lanao in the
Moro Province in 1906, and governor of the same in 1907.
He learned to speak the dialect of the people, studied their
customs and needs, and was winning their confidence by his
fairness and tact, when in February, 1908, as he was attempt-
ing to arrest a Moro outlaw who was inciting the natives
to insurrection, he was shot and severely wounded in both
thighs and the left forearm. His death was reported, but
after treatment for three months he was brought to the
United States. After several months in the hospital in New
York, he was able to return to his home in South Orange,
N. J., and by October, 1909, had pretty fully recovered.

In recognition of his service as governor in the Philippines
President Taft appointed him, August, 19 10, consul at Ceiba,
Honduras. During an insurrection there his wise manage-
ment prevented international complications and gained the
approbation of both governments. For some months before
his death he had been suffering from a tropical fever, and
though so weak that he had to have his bed by his desk,
he kept at his post. In September, 191 1, he was appointed
consul at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, where it
was hoped the climate would favor his recovery. But while

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waiting for his successor to arrive, in a fit of despondency
due to his illness he shot himself, and died October 27.
He was 30 years of age. A brother graduated from the
Academical Department in 1909.

1902

Wilcox Doolittle, son of Charles Edward and Juliet
(Wilcox) Doolittle, was born February 2, 1880, at Paines-
ville, O., but in early life his parents removed to Hamil-
ton, Ontario, Canada. He was fitted for college at the
University School, Cleveland, O., and took the course in
Mechanical Engineering in the Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he spent three years with the Hamilton
Iron and Steel Co. in Hamilton, Canada, and since then
had been in the wholesale lime and cement business with
the Kelley Island & Transport Co. in Cleveland and with
Noble & Co. in Detroit, Mich.

Mr. Doolittle died suddenly of heat prostration at his
home in Hamilton, July 4, 191 1. He was 31 years of
age, and unmarried. He was buried at Painesville, O.

He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

1903

Edward Clyde Vance, son of Edward Taylor Vance,
a druggist, and Annie L. (Piatt) Vance, was born Decem-
ber 8, 1882, in Ansonia, Conn. He was prepared for Yale
in the High School there and Worcester (Mass.) Academy,
and took the Chemistry course in the Sheffield Scientific
School.

After graduation he devoted himself to mining engineer-
ing, and became an expert in the cyanide method of
extracting gold. He was located successively at Bingham,
Utah ; Cripple Creek, Colo. ; in Arizona, Idaho, and Search-
light, Nev. ; and for the last three years with the Deseret
Power and Mill Co., at Millers, Nev. He was sent by

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the Tonopah Mining Co. of Nevada for special work in
the new Porcupine gold fields in Ontario, and while on
a prospecting tour Mr. Vance and a companion with their
guide were drowned at Porcupine, July 28, 191 1, by the
upsetting of their canoe in the rapids of the Montogamy
River. He had barely escaped death in the forest fires
which were raging two weeks before by jumping into a
lake. Mr. Vance's . body was recovered later below the
falls, and buried in Ansonia, Conn. He was 28 years of
age, and unmarried. Besides his parents a sister survives
him.

1905

Frederick Warren Kay, son of John Conrad and Helen
(Warren) Kay, was born September 6, 1885, at Hazle-
wood, Pa. He was fitted for Yale at the Shadyside
Academy, Pittsburgh, and was in the Mechanical Engi-
neering course in the Sheffield Scientific School. He was
a member for two years of the University Hockey Team
and was on the board of editors of the Scientific Monthly.

After graduation he studied in the Law Department of
the University of Pittsburgh, from which he received the
degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1908, and was admitted
to the bar of Allegheny County, Pa. In 1907 he took up
the study of patent law with the firm of Kay & Totten,
and was admitted to partnership in May, 1910.

While visiting during his vacation in the summer of
191 1 in Conbourg, Canada, he contracted typhoid fever,
and died there after an illness of three weeks, September
9. He was 26 years of age, and unmarried. A brother
survives him.

1906

John Darragh Liggett, son of Sidney Byron Liggett,
secretary of the Pennsylvania Railroad Lines West of
Pittsburgh, and Emma (Stevenson) Liggett, was born in
Sewickley, Pa., October 2, 1884. After preparation at

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Phillips (Andover) Academy, he took the Select course in
the Sheffield Scientific School.

Upon graduation he was clerk of the National Bank of
Western Pennsylvania, clerk of the passenger department
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Lines West of Pittsburgh, in
the Pittsburgh office of Redmond & Co., New York
bankers, and the Pittsburgh representative of E. W.
Clarke & Co., bankers, of Philadelphia.

He died after a brief illness from kidney trouble at his
home in Pittsburgh, February 18, 1912. He was 27 years
of age, and not married. His father, two brothers, and
a sister survive him. He was a member of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the Ascension.

1908

Bogart Greenwood Southack, son of Frank Tilden
Southack and Augusta Greenwood (Martin) Southack,
was born April 6, 1886, in New York City. After prepara-
tion in private schools in New York he took the course
in Mechanical Engineering in the Sheffield Scientific
School.

For a year and a half after graduation he was with the
Chase National Bank, New York City, but since then had
been with the Christy-Moir Co., wholesale lumber dealers
in New York City.

In October, 1909, Mr. Southack went to East Orange,
N. J., to live, but in August, 1910, removed to Montclair,
N. J., where he died of appendicitis, July 6, 191 1. He
was 25 years of age.

He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., December 17, 1908,
Josephine, daughter of Rodney Allen Ward and Harriette
Jane (Woodruff) Ward, who survives him with a son.

1910

John Crompton Horsfall, son of Frederick and Ida
Jane (Harris) Horsfall, was born August 19, 1889, in
New Britain, Conn.

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After preparation in the High School there and a year
in the employ of the Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Co.,
he took the Metallurgical course in the Sheffield Scientific
School, and took two-year honors for excellence in all
studies.

On graduation he spent a year as a chemist in Tamaqua,
Pa., and in the fall of 191 1 went to Trinity College,
Hartford, for further study in mineralogy, but early in
December he was taken with appendicitis, and after a
second operation died in New Britain, Deecmber 23. He
was 22 years of age, and unmarried. His parents and
three sisters survive him.

Rutherford Page, second son of William Drummond
Page (B.A. Yale 1875) and Helen Jesup (Grinnell) Page
and nephew of George Bird Grinnell (B.A. Yale 1870),
was born in New York City, April 2.y, 1887. After
preparation at the Taft School in Watertown, Conn., he
took the course in Mechanical Engineering in the Sheffield
Scientific School. He was fond of the study of birds.
Photographs and articles by him have appeared in Forest
and Stream. He had hunted in the Canadian Rocky
Mountains, and when abroad had climbed many of the
high Alps, frequently making new time records. He had
an unusual sense of balance and sureness of vision, and to
walk in places difficult or impossible for others was his
delight. He had also had much experience in motor-cycling
and automobiling.

Since graduation he had been employed by the Crane
Valve Company in Bridgeport, Conn., until, deciding to
follow a natural bent and use his outdoor experience, he
resigned, to engage in aviation. Late in 191 1 he placed
himself under the instruction of Glenn H. Curtis at San
Diego, Cal., and made such rapid progress that in six weeks
he obtained a pilot's license. In flying for his license he
made a world's record, and immediately afterward took

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part in the International Aviation Meet at Los Angeles.
There he won his first race, in record time; but, in less
than a minute after his aeroplane had started in the
maneuver preliminary to his second race, and while he was
moving at sixty-five miles an hour, his engine for some
unknown reason stopped, just as he was making the sharp
curve at the end of the field at a height of about seventy-
five feet. When the aeroplane struck the ground, a second
later, he was thrown out and instantly killed. The accident
happened January 22, 1912. He was 24 years old. His
mother, two brothers (one of them F. L. G. Page, Ph.B.
Yale 1909), and two sisters survive him.

1911

Samuel Winship Case, son of Samuel Bailey Case and
Ada (Smith) Case, was born October 20, 1890, in Norwich,
Conn. He was prepared for Yale at the Norwich Free
Academy. On entering the Sheffield Scientific School he
took the course in Mining Engineering, receiving at grad-
uation General Three- Year Honors for excellence in all
studies, also the prize for excellence in mining engineering
and the Belknap prize in Geological Studies. He also
excelled in athletics, and was a member of the Student
Council.

At graduation he was awarded a Graduate Scholarship
in the Sheffield Scientific School, and had returned to Yale
to study for the degree of Mining Engineer.

While spending the day at his father's cottage at
Crescent Beach, East Lyme, Conn., he and his friend,
George Borup (B.A. Yale 1907), went out in a canoe on
Long Island Sound. When about a mile from the shore
the boat was in some way capsized, and both he and Mr.
Borup lost their lives, April 28, 1912. Their bodies were
found about a quarter of a mile off shore. He was 21
years of age, and unmarried. His parents and his brother
and classmate, Raymond Bailey Case, survive him.

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i873

Henry David Kurtz, whose name was formerly written
Kutz, son of John and Annie (Diener) Kutz, was born
near Reading, Pa., February 12, 1844. He graduated
from Wittenberg College in 1863, and was licensed to
preach in the Lutheran Church in 1870.

He was a member of the Yale Divinity School during
Senior year.

In the fall of 1875 he was ordained pastor of the
Congregational Church at Findlay, O., where he remained
two years, and during the two years following was at
New Haven, N. Y. He spent the year 1879-80 as a
graduate student in Princeton Theological Seminary, and
was received into the New Brunswick Presbytery March
30, 1880. During that year he was an evangelist in New
York City, from 1881 to 1883 was in Syracuse, N. Y.,
then in Worcester, Mass., and since 1908 had been an
evangelist in Philadelphia, where he died of ptomaine
poisoning, August 7, 1910. He was 66 years of age. The
burial was in Allentown, Pa.

He married in Wauseon, O., February 8, 1877, Mrs.
Clara Gunilda (Canfield) Lathrop, daughter of Heman A.
and Amanda Gunilda (Brown) Canfield. She survives him
with a daughter.

1882

Amos Trout Fox, son of Adam and Margaret (Trout)
Fox, was born at Mount Pleasant, Pa., February 21, 1854.
He graduated from Bethany College, W. Va., in 1880.

He entered the Theological Seminary in the Middle year,
was ordained October 9, 1881, and the year after grad-
uation preached at Mount Joy, Pa. In October, 1884, he
became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Stewarts-

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town in the same state. Since then he had been Professor
and President of Whitworth College, Tacoma, Wash.

He died in Tacoma, August 7, 191 1, at the age of 57
years.

His wife died in December, 1905, but a son and two
daughters survive him. No further information has been
received.

1887

James Franklin Cross, son of William and Elizabeth
(Atkinson) Cross, was born at Bethlehem, O., May 1, 1859.
After preparation in Western Reserve Academy he entered
Adelbert College (Western Reserve University), and grad-
uated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1884. While
at Yale he was a member of the University baseball nine
of 1886.

After his graduation from the Divinity School he was
ordained, July 27, 1887, at Hudson, O., and went at once
as a missionary to the Dakota Indians, with headquarters
at Oahe, S. D., and later at Rosebud. He remained there
till 1905, and was so successful in reaching and helping the
Indians under his care that the American Missionary Asso-
ciation asked him to undertake work among the Eskimos
at Cape Prince of Wales. Alaska, where the conditions at that
time were particularly difficult. There he staid five years
without relief from loneliness except in his work and in the
companionship during two of the long winters of his eldest
daughter. He gathered and cared for a church of two
hundred members and a Sunday school much larger, and
ministered in every way to the people. Then he spent nearly
a year in work among the Indians at Likely, in the north-
eastern corner of California, and had just reestablished
himself at Rosebud, S. D. In the effort to meet engage-
ments to speak at Oberlin and elsewhere in behalf of the
American Missionary Association he reached Ohio, but was
taken with typhoid fever, symptoms of which had appeared

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before he left Rosebud, and he died at Hudson in that state
at the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. A. D. Mills, November
19, 191 1. He was 52 years of age.

He married, at Canton, O., September 4, 1889, Stella M.,
daughter of John Y. and Cynthia (Ross) Pearson, who
survives him with four daughters, the eldest a student in
Yankton College.

1892

Sumantrao Vishnu Karmarkar, was born at Ahmed-
nagar, India, April 20, 1861. A Brahman by birth, his
father was Rev. Vishnu Bhaskar Karmarkar, for many
years the eminent pastor of the American Marathi Mission
Church in Bombay, India.

About 1890 he came to this country for study, and after
studying in the Hartford Theological Seminary, he took the
Senior year in the Yale Seminary, received the degree of
Bachelor of Divinity in 1892, and was ordained to the
ministry.

Returning to India he spent four years in missionary
work at Bassein and Thana, was for a time pastor of the
large American Marathi Church in the New Ningpada
section of Byculla, and then became head of the evangelistic
work in Bombay. He conducted daily outdoor services and
tent meetings in different sections of the city.

He was one of the founders of the National Missionary
Society of India, and its vice-president at the time of his
death, and a member of the executive committee of the
Indian Christian Endeavor Society. He was a leading
member of the Bombay Missionary Conference, and in 1907
a delegate to the World's Student Conference in Tokyo,
Japan.

He mingled with the missionaries of all the missions, and
was in touch with non-Christian as well as Christian India.

His wife, who was before marriage Guru Shidwa, a
Canarese Christian, accompanied her husband to the United
States, and studied in the Woman's Medical College of

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325

Philadelphia, and after receiving the degree of Doctor of
Medicine in 1893, returned to do medical missionary work
of wide influence.

Mr. Karmarkar had been a sufferer from diabetes, but
died of paralysis at Bombay April 2, 1912. He was nearly
51 years of age. Dr. Karmarkar and seven adopted
children survive him.

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1896

Edward Grier Fullerton, son of Rev. Robert Stewart
Fullerton, a Presbyterian missionary, and Martha (White)
Fullerton, was born July 14, 1863, in Landour, Northern
India. Upon his father's death in 1865, ms mother
returned to America and settled in Philadelphia.

He graduated as a Bachelor of Arts from the University
of Pennsylvania in 1883, and received the degree of Master
of Arts there in 1886 for a thesis on Wordsworth. After
spending three years in the United States Signal Service,
he entered Princeton Theological Seminary in 1886, and
was also a student of philosophy in the Graduate Depart-
ment of Princeton University. Graduating from Princeton
Seminary in 1889 he was ordained to the ministry June
13, was assistant pastor of the Plymouth Congregational
Church, Worcester, Mass., a year, and pastor of the Park
Church in the same city the following year. He was then
pastor of the Park Street Congregational Church, Bridge-
port, Conn., from 1891 to 1904, and since the latter date,
of the First Presbyterian Church in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

During his pastorate in Bridgeport he was a member of
the Yale Graduate School, making a critical study of the
pulpit oratory of England in the eighteenth century, and
on completing his thesis received the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy. In 1904 Lafayette College conferred on
him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.

After suffering for a year and a half from a nervous
breakdown from which he seemed to be recovering, Dr.
Fullerton died of apoplexy in Hartford, Conn., July 5,
191 1, in his 48th year.

He married, June 6, 1889, Flora Cooper, adopted
daughter of Robert Brown (B.A. Yale 1857), who was

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for twenty-five years secretary of the Yale Observatory,
and whose decease occurred three weeks before his own.
Mrs. Fullerton survives him with one son. Two sisters
who are missionaries in India and a brother are also living.

1908

David William Brandelle, son of Gustaf Johnson and
Emma (Nelson) Brandelle, was born September 21, 1877,
in Altona, 111.

He graduated from Augustana College with the degree
of Bachelor of Arts in 1899, the following year was a
student in the University of Wisconsin, and in 1901-02 in
the University of Minnesota, where he received the degree
of Master of Arts in 1902. He was principal of a public
school in Watertown, Minn., and for a year instructor in
Luorni Academy, Hancock, Mich.

In the fall of 1904 he entered the Yale Graduate School,
and three years later he became Instructor in History in
Bates College, his special field being modern European
History. In 1908 he completed his thesis on "The
History of the King's Council in Sweden from 1306 to
1390."

He was an inspiring teacher, but too close application to
his work brought on melancholia. He tried for weeks to
regain his health, but not meeting with success had arranged
to enter a sanatorium. He disappeared June 15, 191 1, and
his body was found in the Androscoggin River, near
Lewiston, Me., the following day, and was buried at Galva,
111. He was in the 34th year of his age, and unmarried.
A service in his memory was held at Bates College
Chapel, June 19. He was a member of the Lutheran
Church.

Two brothers, both clergymen, and graduates of Augus-
tana College in 1884 and 1894, respectively, survive him.

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igog

Claude Clair Perkins, son of Talman Clark and Mary
Jane (Wilson) Perkins, was born December 30, 1875, at
Pine Island, Minn. After finishing the course in the State
High School there he taught for nine years in public
schools, then entered the University of Minnesota, and
received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1907, after
three years and a half as a student.

Coming that year to the Graduate Department of Yale
he was awarded a Graduate scholarship the first year, and
since then had continued his studies in chemistry, being
also Assistant in Chemistry in the Kent Chemical Labora-
tory of the Academical Department. During the last two
years he had also taught in the New Haven High School.
His research work had brought scientific recognition, and
some of his papers had been published abroad as well as
in this country. He gained the degree of Master of Arts
from Yale in 1909, and that of Doctor of Philosophy in
1911.

In May, 191 1, he was appointed instructor in Chemistry
in the Sheffield Scientific School, but before entering on
his new duties Dr. Perkins died in New Haven, August 24,
after an illness of only five days from cerebro-meningitis.
He was 35 years of age. He was buried at his old home
in Pine Island.

He was a deacon of the First English Lutheran Church,
New Haven, and superintendent of its Sunday School.

He married, June 26, 1907, Ester E., daughter of Trued
and Hanna (Monson) Granville, of Vasa, Minn., who sur-
vives him. She is a sister of Dr. William A. Granville
(Ph.B. Yale 1893), Instructor in Mathematics in the
Sheffield Scientific School from 1894 to 1910, and since
then President of Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg.

STTUVLIMI.^IRY

ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT

(Yale
Name and Age

College)

Time of De

Class

Place and

ath

1838

Henry P. Hedges, 93 Bridgehampton, L. I., N. Y.

Sept. 26,

11

1841

Thomas C. Yarnall, 95

Philadelphia, Pa.

Nov. 28,

11

1843

William W. Atterbury, 88

Bennington, Vt.

Aug. 6,

11

1843

George A. Meech, 87

Morgan Park, 111.

Oct. 24,

11

1847

Joseph Steele, 87

Gloversville, N. Y.

Jan. 26,

12

1847

Nathaniel M. Trezevant, 84

Memphis, Tenn.

Oct. 17,

II

1848

Ebenezer Buckingham, 83

Chicago, 111.

Feb. 25,

12

1848

Franklin R. Grist, 83

Raleigh, N. C.

Feb. 25,

12

1849

Henry L. Metcalfe, 82

Natchez, Miss.

April 3,

12

1850

William Ludden, 88

Brooklyn, N. Y.

Jan. 2,

12

1850

Sidney Phoenix, 82

Minneapolis, Minn.

April 24,

12

185 1

Edward Hungerford, 81

Burlington, Vt.

Aug. 5,

11

185 1

Robbins Little, 80

Newport, R. I.

April 13,

12

I85I

John W. Noble, 80

St. Louis, Mo.

March 22,

12

I85I

Joseph Sheldon, 83

New Haven, Conn.

Oct. 25,

11

1854

Yung Wing, 83

Hartford, Conn.

April 21,

12

1855

Charles J. F. Allen, 76

Louisville, Ky.

June 8,

11

1855

George Bulkley, 75

Southport, Conn.

Sept. 28,

11

1855

Nathaniel W. Bumstead, 77

Boston, Mass.

Feb. 1,

T2

1856

Charles T. Catlin, 76

Brooklyn, N. Y.

Jan. 4,

12

1856

Seneca M. Keeler, 76

Danbury, Conn.

May 25,

12

1856

Edward C. Towne, 76

Brooklyn, N. Y.

June 20,

II

1857

Robert Brown, 75

New Haven, Conn.

June 11,

II

1857

Luther S. Trowbridge, 75

Detroit, Mich.

Feb. 3,

12

1858

Isaac Delano, 77

Saginaw, Mich.

Sept. 26,

II

1858

William H. Steele, 72

Altmar, N. Y.

Sept. 21,

II

1859

Edwin B. Foote, 75

Brooklyn, N. Y.

Jan. 31,

12

1859

George W. Jones, 74

Ithaca, N. Y.

Oct. 29,

II

1859

Thomas E. Ruggles, 73

Milton, Mass.

Aug. 7,

II

1859

Henry Upson, 80

New Britain, Conn.

Sept. 2,

II

1859

George P. Welles, 73

Chicago, 111.

Jan. 21,

12

i860

Frederick H. Colton, 72

Brooklyn, N. Y.

March 16,

12

i860

Clarence E. Dutton, 70

Englewood, N. J.

Jan. 4,

12

i860

D. Cady Eaton, 74

New Haven, Conn.

May 11,

12

33°

YALE COLLEGE

i860

1862

1862

1863

1863

1864

1864

1864

1865

1865

1865

1865

1865

1865

1866

1867

1867

1868

1868

1868

1868

1869

1869

1869

1870

1870

1870

1870

1871

187 1

1871

1872

1873

1873

1874

1874

1875

1876

1876

1876

1877

1878

1878

William Pennington, ^2 Paterson, N. J.

James F. Brown, 75 North Stonington, Conn.

Charles N. Judson, 72
Thomas A. Kennett, 69
David B. Perry, y^
Matthew C. D. Borden, 69
Olof Page, 68
Orson S. Wood, 71
James E. Chandler, 69
John F. Dryden, 72
George T. Ford, 70

Brooklyn, N. Y.
New York City
Battle Creek, Mich.
Oceanic, N. J.
Valparaiso, Chile
East Windsor, Conn.
New York City
Newark, N. J.
Washington, D. C.

Gouverneur M. Thompson, 68 New York City
William L. Warren, 68 Los Angeles, Cal.

Edward M. Wright, 72
Darius P. Sackett, 69
George C. Brainerd, 66
Orlando M. Harper, 65
C. Dewees Berry, 66
Charles Page, 64
Stephen Pierson, 66
James Trimble, 65
Lyman H. Bagg, 64
Edward R. DeGrove, 63
Louis R. Ehrich, 62
Edward Chapin, 63
J. Henry Cummings, 64
Ira E. Forbes, 68
Edwin A. Lewis, 63
William Morris, 61
Arthur Ryerson, 61
George R. Stelle, 62
Hiram Y. Kaufman, 61
Philip H. Adee, 60
John O. Heald, 60
Edward L. Curtis, 57
Roderic Williams, 59
Edwin H. Weatherbee, 59
Edward S. Clarke, 57
Robert B. Fleming, 57
Francis A. Leach, 57
George E. Matthews, 56
Charles A. Feick, 53
Royal C. Moodie, 59

Kansas City, Mo.
New Hartford, N. Y
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Summit, N. J.
Fairfield, Conn.
San Francisco, Cal.
Morristown, N. J.
Nashville, Tenn.
West Springfield, Mass.
Lake Placid, N. Y.
London, England
York, Pa.
Rush City, Minn.
Noroton, Conn.
Englewood, N. J.
Philadelphia, Pa.
At sea

near Plainfield, N. J.
Philadelphia, Pa.
New York City
Orange, N. J.
near Rockland, Me.
Denver, Colo.
New York City
Rochester, N. Y.
New York City
Kansas City, Mo.
Grand Island, N. Y.
Niverville, N. Y.
Blair, Nebr.

Feb. 17, '12

July 25/1 1

Feb.. 14, '12

June 29, 'ii

May 21, '12

May 27, ' 12

Nov. 21, '1 1

Nov. 5, 'i 1

Nov. 23, '11

Nov. 24*11

Dec. 24, '11

Feb. 6, '12

April 23, '12

Nov. 11, 'i 1

April 1, '12

Jan. 8, '12

Jan. 14, '12

Sept. 13, '11

Feb. 26, '12

Aug. 10/11

Aug. 6/1 1

Oct. 23, '11

July 17, '1 1

Oct. 23, '11

Sept. 24, '11

Feb. 28, '12

Nov. 14, '1 1

July 17, '1 1

Jan. 9, '12

April 15/12

Nov. 17, '11

Jan. 23, '12

May 28, '12

Oct. 10. 'i 1

Aug. 26, 'i 1

Nov. 3, 'ii

Feb. 11, '12

Aug. 30, '11

Dec. 20, 'ii

Feb. 1, '12

June 11, '11

Sept. 30, 'i 1

June 21, '11

SUMMARY

331

18/8
1879
1880
1880
1882
1883
1883
1883
1884
1884
1885
1886
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1890
1891
1891
1893
1894
1894
1894
1896
1897
1898
1898
1898
1899
1899
1900
1900
1901
1903
1903
1905
1906
1907
1908
1908
1910
191 1

Edgar H. Stone, 57
Isaac Peck, 53
William D. Bishop, 54
David C Wells, 52
Frederick 0. Darling, 55
Robert C. Rogers, 50
Horatio O. Stone, 51
Harold Vernon, 49
Charles P. Phelps, 50
John H. Stevenson, 50
Lewin F. Buell, 48
Thomas F. Dougherty, 49
Samuel W. Scott, 50
John H. Hume, 47
Porter G. Willett, 47
Milton M. Lemer, 46
William G. Morris, 41
Joseph L. Winchell, 43
James K. Blake, 40
Malcolm MacLear, 43
George J. Briggs, 39
Pratt A. Brown, 36
Edward Kirkland, 39
Charles F. Word, 40
Walter P. Paret, 39
Frederic M. Burgess, 40
John R. Paxton, 34
Maxwell W. Rockwell, 34
Horace W. Wilcox, 36
John Boyce, 34
Charles E. Hay, 37
Ernest C McGouldrick, 37
William C. Mackey, 35

WilfordW.Linsly, 33
James W. Reynolds, 32
John R. White, 30
Harold Bruff, 27
George H. W. Alden, 28

Sioux City, la.
Putnam, Conn.
Sea Cliff, L. I., N. Y.
Hanover, N. H.
Springfield, Mass.
Santa Barbara, Cal.
Chicago, 111.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
New York City
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Portland, Me.
New York City
Portland, Ore.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Buffalo, N. Y.
Harrisburg, Pa.
Portage, Wise,
near Glendale, Ore.
New Haven, Conn.
Newark, N. J.
Atlanta, Ga.
Jacksonville, Fla.
Fourth Lake, N. Y.
Helena, Mont.
Essex Fells, N. J.
New Haven, Conn.
Saranac Lake, N. Y.
New York City
New York City
Schodack, N. Y.
Sacket Harbor, N. Y.
Machias, Me.
Hong Kong, China
New York City
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Providence, R. I.
New York City
New York City

George Borup, 26 near Crescent Beach, Conn.
William R. Peters, 24 Oyster Bay, L. I., N. Y.
William W. Wynkoop, 26 Tacoma, Wash.
Francis E. Bickley, 24 Philadelphia, Pa.

Frederick B. Keppy, 20 Bayport, L. I., N. Y.

Dec. 5, 'i 1
June 30, 'i 1
Jan. 23, '12
June 11, '11

March 22, '12

April 20, *I2

April 24, '12

Oct. 11, 'i 1

Jan. 13, '12

Nov. 23, 'i 1

April 27, '12

Nov. 17, 'i 1

Dec. ll/ll

March 26, '12

Nov. 1, 'ii

Dec. 17, 'ii

Jan. 29, '12

Dec. 7/1 1

Aug. 28, 'i 1

May 10, '12

June 15, 'i 1

April 12, '11

Nov. 8, '11

June 10, 'i 1

Feb. 21, '12

April 3, '12

May 20, '12

Oct. 17, 'i 1

March 13, '12

Aug. 26, 'i 1

Nov. 23, 'i 1

Jan. 9, '12

Jan. 16, '12

Jan. 13, '12

Sept. 19, 'i 1

June 16, 'n

Oct. 12, 'n

Jan. 12, '12

April 28, '12

Aug. 17, 'i 1

May 24, 'i 1

July 11, 'ii

Aug. 25, 'n

332

YALE COLLEGE

YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL

1853

Francis Bacon, 80

New Haven, Conn.

April 26, '12

1854

John Nicoll, 81

Stamford, Conn.

May 22, ' 12

1875

George B. Chapman, 62

Dover Plains, N. Y.

Jan. 13, '12

1875

James Sullivan, 58

Boston, Mass.

Aug. 16, 'i 1

1876

Edward H. Welch, 59

Winsted, Conn.

Dec. 28, 'i 1

1903

Joseph P. Lavalaye, 36

New York City

July 21, '11

1904

Francis W. Wrinn, 34

East Haven, Conn.

July 17, '11

YALE LAW SCHOOL

1868

Edward F. DeForest, 65

Boston, Mass.

Dec. 12, 'i 1

1874

Ebenezer Burr, 62

Bridgeport, Conn.

Aug. 16, 'i 1

1875

George M. Sharp, 59

Baltimore, Md.

July 7, 'i 1

1880

William V. Childs, 55

Kansas City, Mo.

Sept. 6, 'io

1883

Cormac F. Bohan, 48

Pittston, Pa.

Dec. 2/1 1

1889

John A. Doolittle, 44

Wallingford, Conn.

March 3, '12

1892

Henry A. Huntington, 47

Windsor, Ccnn.

March 7, '12

1893

Dana P. Foster, 42

Waterville, Me.

Sept. 19, '11

1908

Beverly B. Thomasson, 28

Carrollton, Ga.

June 12, 'n

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL

1852

George J. Brush, 80

New Haven, Conn.

Feb. 6, '12

1864

Edwin W. Carpenter, 68

Providence, R. I.

Nov. 2, '09

1870

Evelyn P. Roberts, 62

Peekskill, N. Y.

Dec. 30, 'io

1873

Amory E. Rowland, 59

New Haven, Conn.

May 7, '12

1874

Charles J. Morse, 59

Evanston, 111.

Dec. 6, 'i 1

1874

Francis H. Stillman, 61

Brooklyn, N. Y.

Feb. 18, '12

1875

William C. Hall, 55

New York City

June 6, 'ii

1875

Edward A. Kent, 58

At sea

April 15, '12

1876

Thomas Yeatman, 55

Tampa, Fla.

Nov. 2/1 1

1879

John C. Gallagher, 54

New Haven, Conn.

March 29, '12

1879

Rufus H. Skeel, 53

Newburgh, N. Y.

Feb. 12, '12

1889

Danford N. B. Sturgis, 44

Millbrook, N. Y.

Aug. 19/11

1893

Henry F. Conner, 38

Berlin, Germany

March 5, '12

1894

Edward C. Hall, 37

Schenectady, N. Y.

July 12, '11

1896

Lemuel R. Hopton, 38

Garrison, N. Y.

Sept. 5, '11

1897

Hubert A. Lane, 34

Craig, Mo.

Sept. 26, 'i 1

1897

Harry D. McCandless, 38

Pittsburgh, Pa.

March 26, ' 12

1901

Allen Gard, 30

Ceiba, Honduras

Oct. 27, '11

1902

Wilcox Doolittle, 31 Hamilton, Ont, Canada

July 4, '11

1903

E. Clyde Vance, 28 Porcupine, Ont., Canada

July 28, 'i 1

SUMMARY

333

1905 Frederick W. Kay, 26

1906 John D. Liggett, 27
1908 Bogart G. Southack, 25
1910 John C. Horsfall, 22
1910 Rutherford Page, 24

Conbourg, Canada
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Montclair, N. J.
New Britain, Conn.
Los Angeles, Cal.

Sept. 9, 'i 1
Feb. 18, '12
July 6, 'il
Dec. 23, 'i 1
Jan. 22, ' 12

191 1 Samuel W. Case, 21 near Crescent Beach, Conn. April 28, '12

YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL

1873 Henry D. Kurtz, 66 Philadelphia, Pa. Aug. 7, 'io

1882 AmosT. Fox, 57 Tacoma, Wash. Aug. 7, 'n

1887 James F. Cross, 52 Hudson, O. Nov. 19, 'n

1892 Sumantrao V. Karmarkar, 51 Bombay, India April 2/12

YALE GRADUATE SCHOOL

1896 Edward G. Fullerton, 47

1908 David W. Brandelle, 33

1909 Claude C. Perkins, 35

Hartford, Conn,
near Lewiston, Me.
New Haven, Conn.

July 5, 'ii

June 15, 'i 1
Aug. 24, 'ii

The number of deaths recorded this year is 169 and the average
age of the 120 graduates of the Academical Department is about
60 years.

Information of the deaths of the following graduates has been
received too late for the insertion of sketches in the present
Record :

1857, Edmund Thompson Allen died at St. Louis, Mo., May
29, 1912; 1888, Lucius Noyes Palmer died at Denver, Colo., April
18, 1912.

The oldest living graduate of the Academical Department is:
Class of 1839, David Fisher Atwater, of Springfield, Mass., born

October 29, 1817. He is also the oldest living graduate of the

Medical Department, in the Class of 1842.

11

s of the Divinity, Graduate, L

sriD-k^

I Scientific Schools are indicat

Member

aw, Medical, an<

ed by-

the letters d, a

sr dp, I

, m, and s

, respectively.

Class

Page

Class

Page

1873

Adee, Philip H.

238

1882

Darling, Frederick O.

255

1906

Alden, George H. W.

279

1868/

DeForest, Edward F.

291

1855

Allen, Charles J. F.

186

1869

DeGrove, Edward R.

229

1843

Atterbury, William W.

168

1858

Delano, Isaac

198

1889/

Doolittle, John A.

294

1853 m

Bacon, Francis

284

1902^

Doolittle, Wilcox

317

1869

Bagg, Lyman H.

228

1886

Dougherty, Thomas F.

261

1868

Berry, C. Dewees

225

1865

Dryden, John F.

218

1910

Bickley, Francis E.

282

i860

Dut'ton, Clarence E.

206

1880

Bishop, William D.

252

1891

Blake, James K.

265

i860

Eaton, D. Cady

208

1883/

Bohan, Cormac F.

294

1869

Ehrich, Louis R.

230

1864

Borden, Matthew C. D.

215

1907

Borup, George

279

1878

Feick, Charles A.

249

1899

Boyce, John

274

1876

Fleming, Robert B.

246

1867

Brainerd, George C.

223

1859

Foote, Edwin B.

200

1908 c?/)

Brandelle, David W.

327

1870

Forbes, Ira E.

233

1893

Briggs, George J.

268

1865

Ford, George T.

219

1862

Brown, James F.

210

1893/

Foster, Dana P.

296

1894

Brown, Pratt A.

268

1882 d

Fox, Amos T.

322

1857

Brown, Robert

194

1896 dp Fullerton, Edward G.

326

1905

Bruff, Harold

278

1852 s

Brush, George J.

298

1879*

Gallagher, John C.

309

1848

Buckingham, Ebenezer

172

1901 s

Gard, Allen

3l6

1885

Buell, Lewin F.

259

1848

Grist, Franklin R.

173

1855

Bulkley, George

187

1855

Bumstead, Nathaniel W.

188

1894 j

Hall, Edward C.

313

1897

Burgess, Frederic M.

271

i875*

Hall, William C

307

1874/

Burr, Ebenezer

29I

1867

Harper, Orlando M.

224

1899

Hay, Charles E.

274

1864^

Carpenter, Edwin W.

301

1873

Heald, John 0.

239

191 1 j

Case, Samuel W.

321

1838

Hedges, Henry P.

165

1856

Catlin, Charles T.

189

1896 s

Hopton, Lemuel R.

313

1865

Chandler, James E.

2l8

1910^

Horsf all, John C.

319

1870

Chapin, Edward

232

1887

Hume, John H.

262

1875 m

Chapman, George B.

286

1851

Hungerf ord, Edward

176

1880/

Childs, William V.

293

1892/

Huntington, Henry A.

295

1876

Clarke, Edward S.

245

i860

Colton, Frederick H.

205

1859

Jones, George W.

201

1893 J

Conner, Henry F.

312

1862

Judson, Charles N.

211

188,7 d

Cross, James F.

323

1870

Cummings, J. Henry

233

1892 d

Karmarkar, Sumantrao V. 324

1874

Curtis, Edward L.

241

1872

Kaufman, Hiram Y

238

INDEX

335

Class

Page

Class

Page

1905*

Kay, Frederick W.

318

1873*

Rowland, Amory E.

303

1856

Keeler, S. McNeil

191

1859

Ruggles, Thomas E.

202

1863

Kennett, Thomas A.

212

1871

Ryerson, Arthur

236

1875 s

Kent, Edward A.

308

I9II

Keppy, Frederick B.

282

1866

Sackett, Darius P.

222

1894

Kirkland, Edward

269

1886

Scott, Samuel W.

26l

lS73d

Kurtz, Henry D.

322

1875/

Sharp, George M.

202

1851

Sheldon, Joseph

l8l

1897 S

Lane, Hubert A.

315

I879S

Skeel, Rufus H.

311

1903 m

Lavalaye, Joseph P.

289

1908 s

Southack, Bogart G.

319

1876

Leach, Francis A.

247

1847

Steele, Joseph

170

1889

Lemer, Milton M.

263

1858

Steele, William H.

199

1870

Lewis, Edwin A.

235

1871

Stelle, George R.

237

1906 .y

Liggett, John D.

318

1884

Stevenson, John H.

259

1901

Linsly, Wilford W.

276

1874 J

Stillman, Francis H.

306

1851

Little, Robbins

178

1878

Stone, Edgar H.

251

1850

Ludden, William

174

1883

Stone, Horatio 0.

257

1889^

Sturgis, Danford N. B.

311

1897.9

McCandless, Harry D.

315

1875 m

Sullivan, James

287

1900

McGouldrick, Ernest C.

275

1900

Mackey, William C.

276

1908/

Thomasson, Beverly B.

296

1891

MacLear, Malcolm

267

1865

Thompson, Gouverneur M. 220

1877

Matthews, George E.

248

1856

Towne, Edward C.

192

1843

Meech, George A.

169

1847

Trezevant, Nathaniel M.

171

1849

Metcalfe, Henry L.

173

1868

Trimble, James

227

1878

Moodie, Royal C.

250

1857

Trowbridge, Luther S.

I96

1871

Morris, William

236

1890

Morris, William G.

264

1859

Upson, Henry

203

1874 s

Morse, Charles J.

304

1003 s

Vance, Clyde

317

1854 m

Nicoll, John

286

1883

Vernon, Harold

257

1851

Noble, John W.

179

1865

Warren, William L.

221

1868

Page, Charles

225

1875

Weatherbee, Edwin H.

244

1864

Page, Olof

2l6

1876 m

Welch, Edward H.

288

1910^

Page, Rutherford

320

1859

Welles, George P.

204

1896

Paret, Walter P.

270

1880

Wells, David C.

254

1898

Paxton, John R.

272

1903

White, John R.

277

1879

Peck, Isaac

251

1898

Wilcox, Horace W.

273

i860

Pennington, William

2IO

1888

Willett, Porter G.

263

1009 a

Perkins, Claude C.

328

1874

Williams, Roderic

244

1863

Perry, David B.

213

1890

Winchell, Joseph L.

264

1908

Peters, William R.

280

1864

Wood, Orson S.

217

1884

Phelps, Charles P.

258

1894

Word, Charles F.

270

1850

Phoenix, Sidney

175

1865

Wright, Edward M.

221

1868

Pierson, Stephen

226

1904 m

Wrinn, Francis W.

289

1908

Wynkoop, William W.

281

1903

Reynolds, James W.

277

1870 s

Roberts, Evelyn P.

302

1 841

Yarnall, Thomas C.

167

1898

Rockwell, Maxwell W.

273

1876 *

Yeatman, Thomas

309

1883

Rogers, Robert C.

256

1854

Yung Wing

183

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<9»

OBITUARY RECORD

OF

GRADUATES OF YALE UNIVERSITY

Deceased during: the year ending
JUNE 1, 1913,

INCLUDING THE RECORD OF A FEW WHO DIED PREVIOUSLY
HITHERTO UNREPORTED

[No. 3 of the Sixth Printed Series, and No. 72 of the whole Record. The
present Series will consist of five numbers.]

OBITUARY RECORD

OF

GRADUATES OF YALE UNIVERSITY

Deceased during the year ending
June i, 1913,

Including the Record of a few who died previously, hitherto unreported

[No. 3 of the Sixth Printed Series, and No. 72 of the whole Record,
The present Series will consist of five numbers.]

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(academical department)

1840

Nathaniel Hillyer Egleston was born May 7, 1822,
in Hartford, Conn., where his father, Nathaniel Egleston,
was a merchant and member of the city council. His
mother was Emily Hillyer, of Granby, Conn.

After graduation he spent a year in the study of law
in Hartford, then returned to New Haven as a resident
graduate, and soon entered the Divinity School, where he
completed the course in 1843, but remained a year longer
as a resident licentiate. He was ordained pastor of the
Congregational Church at Ellington, Conn., February 19,
1845. After five years of service he resigned, and the
following year supplied the Center Church, New Haven,
during the absence of the pastor, Rev. Leonard Bacon,
D.D. (B.A. Yale 1820), in Europe. From October, 1851,
to August, 1853, he was pastor of the Bridge Street Church
in Brooklyn, N. Y., leaving there on account of his wife's
health, and becoming pastor of Plymouth Church, Chicago,
111., and editing the Congregational Herald. He helped
to form the American Congregational Union in 1853 and

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was one of the founders of the Chicago Theological Sem-
inary, a director from 1854 to 1861, also secretary until
1859, and from 1S55 to i860 a member of the executive
committee.

From August, 1855, to May, 1858, he was pastor of the
Congregational Church, Madison, Wise, and for over a
year, from January, 1859, in charge of the Union
Congregational Church in that city.

Beginning in December, i860, he was pastor of the Con-
gregational Church in Stockbridge, Mass., until March,
1869, then Associate Professor of Rhetoric in Williams
College until 1870. He was then acting pastor of the
Congregational Church at Enfield, Conn., three years, and
from 1877 to 1883 conducted a family school at Williams-
town, Mass. While residing there his interest in village
improvement led to the publication of his "Villages and
Village Life," 1878; new edition, under the title "The
Home and its Surroundings," 1884.

Mr. Egleston was one of the pioneer workers for forest
preservation, and spoke and wrote for magazines and other
publications on the subject. He was a delegate to the
Forestry Congress at Cincinnati in 1882, and aided in
forming the American Forestry Association, of which he
was chosen a vice-president and also served as secretary
most of the time for fifteen years. In 1883 he was
appointed chief of the recently established United States
Bureau of Forestry, and held the position until 1886. He
continued in the service of the bureau, and compiled many
of its reports until 1898, when he retired to Jamaica Plain,
Mass.

He wrote "A Handbook of Tree Planting," 1883, and
"Arbor Day Leaves," 1893, and many articles for Harper's
Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, the New Englander, and
other publications.

Mr. Egleston was not ill long and died at the home of
his son, Melville Egleston (B.A. Wiliams 1870; Hon. M.A.

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Yale 1886), at Elizabeth, N. J., August 24, 1912, at the
age of 90 years. He was buried in the College cemetery
at Williamstown, Mass.

He married at Hartford, Conn., July 30, 1844, Sarah
Ann, daughter of Thomas and Emily (Warner) Winship.
She died at Jamaica Plain, September 30, 1895, and two
children are also deceased, but two sons and a daughter
survive him. The daughter is the wife of Professor Theo-
bald Smith, M.D. (Ph.B. Cornell University 1881) of
Harvard University.

1843

Charles Kellogg Atwood, eldest of the seven chil-
dren of Josiah and Prudence (Kellogg) Atwood, was
born December 24, 1820, at Newington, Conn. He was
prepared for college at the Newington Academy, also
studying with Rev. Joab Brace, D.D. (B.A. Yale 1804),
who was for fifty years the Congregational pastor in
Newington.

After graduation he studied law in the office of Francis
Fellows and of Hon. Isaac Toucey (LL.D. Trinity 1845)
in Hartford, Conn. He was admitted to the Hartford
County bar in March, 1846, and had an office in Hartford
for a short time, but soon returned to his father's home
in Newington, where he was for the rest of his life a
farmer. In 1871, when the town of Newington was incor-
porated, he was its first representative in the legislature.
He also held various town offices.

In 1870 he was chosen deacon of the Congregational
Church, and held this office till his death, and for ten years
was superintendent of the Sunday School.

His home was burned in January, 1912, and since then
he had lived with his sister, Mrs. John S. Kirkham, in the
same town. He died in his 92d year, September 18, 1912,
at the Hartford Hospital, where he had been under treat-
ment for two weeks. He never married. Besides his

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sister, five nephews and nieces survive him. But one
member of his class is now living.

William Beeson, son of Isaac and Louisa Caroline
(Pennock) Beeson, was born October 24, 1824, in Union-
town, Pa. His great-grandfather, Henry Beeson, was the
founder of Uniontown, coming from Virginia in 1776, and
his great-grandfather, John Creigh, was a member of the
Continental Congress and also lieutenant-colonel in the
Revolutionary War. For more than a hundred years
members of the family were merchants in Uniontown.

He was prepared for college at the Canonsburg (Pa.)
Academy, and entered Yale in Sophomore year from Wash-
ington and Jefferson College. As the journey between
college and his home had to be made by stagecoach and
the round trip would occupy so much of the summer vaca-
tion, he did not return home from New Haven till the end
of his college course.

After graduation he studied in the Harvard Law School,
his brother Charles (B.A. Washington and Jefferson 1839)
being a member of the School at the same time. On his
return to Pennsylvania, he practiced law in Pittsburgh
about two years, and later became a member of the Fay-
ette County bar, but devoted most of his time to other
matters.

In 1856 his father bought a tract of more than two
thousand acres at what is now Mount Braddock, near
Connellsville. A large part of the land had coal under-
lying it, and the son after managing the property for many
years sold his share in 1889. Mr Beeson was long one of
the most influential business men in the county. He was
president of the Dunbar furnace, and superintendent of
the Fayette County Railroad, of which his father was
president and which is now a part of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railway system. He also dealt extensively in wool,
and operated a cement mill and a grist mill.

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Mr. Beeson continued mentally alert and physically active
until a brief final illness, and died at his home in Union-
town, May 14, 1913. He was in his 89th year, the oldest
member of the Fayette County bar, and the last survivor
but one of his class, the fiftieth and sixtieth anniversaries
of which he attended. He kept up his Latin and Greek,
and in the early days when many traveling men and traders
who could speak little English went through that way he
was the only one who could talk with them in French.

He married, November 24, 1870, Mary, daughter of
Alexander and Harriet (Campbell) Conn, of Steubensville,
Ohio, who died twenty-five years ago. A son (Washington
and Jefferson 1897) and two daughters survive him.

Mr. Beeson was a half-brother of John Kennedy Beeson
(Ph.B. Yale 1867), who was the father of Charles Edmund
Beeson (Ph.B. Yale 1892).

1844

Samuel Towner Rogers, second son and one of the
seven children of Colonel Amzi and Betsy (Barnum)
Rogers, was born April 30, 1820, at New Fairfield, Conn.,
where his grandfather, Rev. Medad Rogers (B.A. Yale
1777), was pastor for forty years. Both of his parents and
all of their children were teachers.

During his college course he was independent of his
father's aid, supporting himself from his savings from
teaching, from the accumulations of a baptismal gift of
his grandfather, Samuel Towner Barnum, and such other
sums as he could earn.

After graduation he taught a select school at Milford,
Conn., then was principal of the academy at Goshen, and
later taught elocution in General William H. Russell's
School in New Haven, being at the same time a student in
the Law School. In January, 1846, in consequence of
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farm work restored his health. In the fall of that year
he was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy in Washington College, Chestertown, Md.,
where he remained until August, 1852, and then became
principal of Easton (Md.) Academy. In the summer of
1856 he resigned this office, and spent nearly a year at
New Fairfield in needed rest. In May, 1857, he went to
Winona, then in the Territory of Minnesota, to superin-
tend some loan investments, and the next spring he went
up the Mississippi River, visited Minneapolis and St. Paul,
continued up the Minnesota River to Henderson, and with
a comrade went on foot along the river to Crystal Lake,
where he preempted a quarter-section of land on the prairie.

September 8, 1859, he married in Waterbury, Conn.,
Cornelia Hepzibah, daughter of Sturges Bulkley (hon. M.D.
Yale 1839; died 1857) and Nancy (Shelton) Bulkley, of
Monroe, and during the ten years following was chiefly
occupied with the care of the large farm of Mrs. Bulkley.
In 1880 he was connected with a silver plating establish-
ment under the name of the Rogers & Britton Silver
Co., and then spent a few years in putting upon a firm
foundation the foundry business of a friend. After that
he engaged in no regular business, but was much inter-
ested in educational matters and in study and research in
various lines.

Mr. Rogers had in recent years suffered from sciatic
rheumatism, but after a winter at Kingston, Jamaica, his
condition improved. He died at his home in Bridgeport,
February 17, 1913, in the 93d year of his age. He had
suffered a shock several weeks before. Three of his class-
mates survive him. As often before, he represented his
Class in the Commencement procession last June. He
received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from
Washington College (Md.) in 1909.

Mrs. Rogers died July 10, 1908, their only son died in
infancy, and of their three daughters only the youngest

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(B.A. Smith 1890) survives. The two elder daughters
(both Ph.D. Yale 1894) died within a few weeks of each
other early in 1907. Three sisters of Mr. Rogers are living.

Joseph Burbeen Walker, son of Captain Joseph and
Ann (Sawyer) Walker, was born June 12, 1822, on the
farm in Concord, N. H., a part of which had originally
come to his great-grandfather, Rev. Timothy Walker (B.A.
Harvard 1725), as his share of the township lands at their
settlement. His mother died when he was less than three
years old, and his father when he was eleven. He was
prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H.

After graduation he studied law in the office of Hon.
Charles H. Peaslee (B.A. Dartmouth 1824) and the Har-
vard Law School, and was admitted to the New Hampshire
bar in 1847, but after practicing a year or two devoted
himself to farming and the duties of many official positions.

In 1845 he became a member of the New Hampshire
Historical Society, and was its librarian 1845-1850, record-
ing secretary 1849-1853, and president 1866-1867. He was
appointed a trustee of the New Hampshire State Hospital
in 1847, and had been its financial agent since 1867. He
was a director of the Merrimack County Bank 1845- 1866,
trustee of the New Hampshire Savings Bank for many
years and president 1866-1874, director of the Mechanics
National Bank from its organization in 1880, a director
of the Franklin & Bristol Railroad and Northern Railroad
of New Hampshire, and since about 1870 of the Concord
& Portsmouth Railroad (all now forming part of the Bos-
ton & Maine Railroad). He was an original trustee of
the Ro'lfe and Rumford Asylum for the care of girls in
Concord in 1853, and its president for a dozen years.

He was a member of the New Hampshire House of
Representatives in 1866-1867, and chairman of the select
committee on the New Hampshire College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts in 1866, and of the finance committee

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in 1867 ; member of the New Hampshire Constitutional
Convention in 1889; and of the New Hampshire Senate
in 1893, when he was chairman of the committee on the
revision of the laws, also a member of the judiciary, rail-
road, and library committees. He was an alderman of
Concord for two years, and member of its board of edu-
cation from 1859 to about 1870.

He was a member of the New Hampshire State Forestry
Commission of 1885, and president of the Forestry Com-
mission established in 1889 for four years.' He was for
more than twenty years on the New Hampshire Board of
Agriculture, and in its Reports were each year one or
more papers prepared by him. He frequently addressed
the Institutes of the State Board of Agriculture on some
phase of hay production. He was a member of the origi-
nal board of trustees of the New Hampshire College of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and at the laying of the
corner stone of the new building at Durham when the Col-
lege was removed from Hanover in 1893 he made the
address, and he also lectured on drainage and irrigation
to the students of the College.

He was a trustee of Phillips (Exeter) Academy for
fourteen years.

From about 1870 he was a member of the New England
Historic-Genealogical Society, and was for many years its
vice-president for New Hampshire. He read several his-
torical papers before the society. He was also a member
of the American Antiquarian Society.

Besides his agricultural addresses, nearly fifty other
papers and articles were printed, many of them in The Con-
gregational Quarterly, Nezv Englander, Collections of the
New Hampshire Historical Society, Granite Monthly, and
elsewhere.

His published volumes include "The History of the
Ratification of the United States Constitution by New
Hampshire/' "History of the Four Meeting Houses of the

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First Congregational Church in Concord," "Genealogy of
the Descendants of John Burbeen of Woburn, Mass.," and
"Genealogy of the Descendants of William Sawyer."

He received the degree of master of arts from Dart-
mouth College in 1883, and from Yale in 1891.

Mr. Walker died in Concord, January 8, 1913, in his
91st year, in the house in which he was born and which
had been the home of the family for six generations.

He married May 5, 1847, Sarah Adams, daughter of Rev.
Daniel Fitz, D.D. (B.A. Dartmouth 1818), of Ipswich,
Mass. She died the following year, and he married in Con-
cord, May 1, 1850, Elizabeth Lord Upham, daughter of
Hon. Nathaniel Gookin Upham (B.A. Dartmouth 1820)
and Betsy W. (Lord) Upham, and had three sons and
three daughters. One daughter died in childhood. The
elder sons graduated from the Academical Department in
1874 and 1877, respectively.

Jonathan White was born August 22, 1819, at East
Randolph, now Holbrook, Mass. His parents were Jona-
than White, one of the first New England shoe manufac-
turers, and Abigail (Holbrook) White. He was fitted for
college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

After graduation he studied law in the Harvard Law
School two years, then in the offices of Richard H. Dana,
LL.D. (B.A. Harvard 1837), and Charles T. Russell (B.A.
Harvard 1837). He was admitted to the bar in 1847 an<^
in 1849 opened his own office in North Bridgewater, now
Brockton, Mass., and applied himself steadily to his profes-
sion until his retirement in 1885. He devoted himself
chiefly to civil law and held a leading position in the county,
winning high regard by his clear and logical opinions. For
a time he was in partnership with Charles W. Sumner
and later with Warren Goddard.

He was repeatedly elected or appointed to public offices.
In 1868 he was selectman of North Bridgewater; in 1864

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and 1866 member of the Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives; in 1869, 1877, 1878, and 1879, state senator.
He was the last town counsel and first city solicitor. From
1867 to 1870, and from 1874 to 1888 he was a member of
the school board and was long one of the persistent minor-
ity which at length secured the establishment of a public
high school. In 1857 he was a member of a committee to
obtain a public library, and when this purpose was accom-
plished after the Civil War, was from 1867 to 1902, with
the exception of three years, trustee of the library, and
for a time chairman of the board of trustees. May 15,
1912, Mr. White laid the corner stone of the new Public
Library and gave the address. A new street running by
the library has been named in his honor.

During his college course he devoted his time chiefly
to his books and to long walks. To the close of his life
he maintained his physical and mental health and continued
his daily walks without a cane. He had much mechanical
skill, and made useful attachments for the microscope,
which he used in botanical studies.

Mr. White died July 25, 1912, after a few days' illness
from paralysis, in the house in Brockton in which he had
lived since 1862. He was 92 years and 11 months old, one
of the oldest members of the Massachusetts bar.

He married May 4, 1848, Nancy Mehitable, daughter of
John and Mehitable (Faxon) Adams, of Holbrook. She
died in 1883, and one daughter is deceased, but three
daughters, and also a sister, survive him.

1845
Henry Beebee Carrington, son of Miles M. and Mary
(Beebee) Carrington, was born March 2, 1824, at Walling-
ford, Conn. His grandfather, James Carrington, was
associated with Eli Whitney early in the last century in
the manufacture of firearms for the United States at

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Whitneyville, Conn. His mother's father and grandfather,
both clergymen, were graduates of Yale, respectively, in
1785 and 1745. He was prepared for college at the school
of Simeon Hart (B.A. Yale 1823), and entered Yale with
the Class of 1844, but left in the spring of 1841 on account
of lung trouble. Regaining his health he joined the Class
of 1845.

After graduation he taught the natural sciences and
Greek a year and a half at the Irving Institute, Tarry-
town, N. Y., also acting as an amanuensis for Washington
Irving, and in 1847 taught chemistry, natural philosophy,
and mathematics in the Collegiate Institute of Rev. Judson
A. Root (B.A. Yale 1823) in New Haven, at the same
time studying in the Yale Law School.

In 1848 he went to Columbus, Ohio, where he was at
first the law partner of Hon. Aaron F. Perry, and then,
for nine years, of Hon. William Dennison (B.A. Miami
1835), afterward governor of Ohio. He allied him-
self with the Abolition wing of the Whig party, and in
June, 1854, was appointed by the State Convention chair-
man of the committee to aid in the formation of the new
political party, which took the name of Republican. During
his twelve years of law practice in Columbus, he was
attorney for the various railroads as they were built and
for leading business corporations, but found leisure for
historical study. A recurrence of lung trouble nearly
proved fatal in 1856. On resuming work the following
year he accepted the invitation of his friend, Governor
(afterward Chief Justice) Salmon P. Chase, to join his
staff and help organize the state militia. He published a
volume of regulations for the militia, was charged with
the duty of visiting President Buchanan to secure the set-
tlement of an issue between federal and state authority in
connection with the Xenia fugitive slave cases, was a
messenger to invite the Prince of Wales and his party
to visit Columbus, and one of the personal escort of

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President-elect Lincoln, on his journey from Springfield,
111., to Columbus.

He was adjutant-general when the Civil War broke
out, and such was his advance preparation that within
sixty hours of President Lincoln's first call for troops two
regiments left Columbus for Washington, and nine regi-
ments of militia were ready for service in West Virginia
before the United States Volunteers could be organized.
The thanks of the Secretary of War and of Generals
Scott and Wool for his promptness were followed by his
appointment, May 14, 1861, as colonel of the Eighteenth
United States Infantry. He was placed in command of
the regular army camp of instruction near Columbus, but
continued to act as adjutant-general of the state until
his successor was appointed in July. Soon afterward he
inspected the regiments in West Virginia, and in the fall
was in Kentucky in command of a brigade. He then went
to Indiana to organize its new levies and assist in the
border defense, and sent to the field from that state more
than one hundred thousand men. For his service in rais-
ing the siege of Frankfort he was tendered the thanks
of the governor. November 29, 1862, he was promoted
to the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers. In the fall
of 1865 he was president of the commission which tried
guerillas in Louisville.

He was mustered out of the volunteer service, August
24, 1865, and returned to his regiment in the Army of
the Cumberland as colonel, but was soon ordered to the
plains beyond the Missouri River to replace the retiring
volunteers. In May, 1866, he conducted the expedition
from Fort Kearney, Nebr., to open a wagon route around
the Big Horn Mountains through what was later called
Wyoming to Montana. He commanded the "Rocky
Mountain District," and built Fort Phil Kearney, as well
as other posts, while continually harassed by Indians
under Red Cloud. In 1867 he was in charge of Fort

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McPherson, Colo., and established friendly relations with
Spotted Tail and other chiefs. While galloping one day,
to hasten a movement of troops at an alarm of hostile
Indians, Colonel Carrington was wounded in the leg by
the accidental discharge of his revolver. After a year's
leave of absence in consequence of his disablement he
returned to the plains, with headquarters at Fort Sedg-
wick, Colo., protecting the construction of the Union
Pacific Railroad from interruption by the Indians.

In 1869 he was detailed, under act of Congress, as Pro-
fessor of Military Science at Wabash College, Ind. In
1870, on account of continued trouble from his wound,
he was retired from active service in the army, but retained
his college position until 1878. Since 1885 he had made
his home in Hyde Park, Mass., devoting his time largely
to literary or government work. In 1904 he received the
rank of brigadier-general.

From 1889 to 1891 he was employed by the United States
Government among the Indians. He effected a treaty with
the Flathead Indians of Montana, and transferred them
to the Jocko Reservation in western Montana. He also
took a census of the tribes of the Six Nations of New
York and the Cherokees of North Carolina. In 1908
General and Mrs. Carrington revisited the scene of the war
with Red Cloud more than forty years before, being hon-
ored guests at a celebration in commemoration of the
opening of Wyoming. An account of this occasion is
included in the book by Mrs. Carrington published in
19 10, entitled "My Army Life and Fort Phil Kearney
Massacre."

General Carrington was given the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws by Wabash College in 1871. He was a
trustee of Marietta College from 1855 to 1866, and a life
member of the American Historical Association.

In 1875 ne was granted access by Great Britain and
France to their archives concerning the American Revolu-

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tion, surveyed and mapped the battle fields, and published his
studies in "The Battles of the American Revolution," and
"Battle Maps and Charts of the American Revolution."
He also published "Crisis Thoughts," "Absaraka, Land
of Massacre and Indian Operations on the Plains, 1866-
1890," "Beacon Lights of Patriotism," "Washington, the
Soldier," "Patriotic Reader, or Human Liberty Developed,"
"Columbian Selections," and other books on American
history, addresses, magazine articles, and poems, including
hymns. He also lectured with much acceptance.

General Carrington died after an illness of two months
from the infirmities of age, at his home in Hyde Park,
October 26, igi2, in the 89th year of his age.

In Columbus he was an elder in the Second Presbyterian
Church and president of the Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation, and in later life a loyal and active member of the
Hyde Park Congregational Church.

He married, December n, 185 1, Margaret Irvin, eldest
daughter of Joseph Sullivant, a scientist of Cleveland, Ohio,
and a cousin of his classmate, Basil Duke, and grand-
daughter of Colonel Joseph McDowell of Danville, Ky.
They had two daughters and four sons, of whom only
one son, James B. Carrington, who was for three years a
student in Wabash College, survives. Another son was
a graduate of Wabash College in 1879. Mrs. Carrington
died at Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1870, and in 1871 General
Carrington married her friend, Frances, daughter of
Robert and Eliza Jane (Haynes) Courtney of Franklin,
Tenn., and widow of Colonel G. W. Grummond, who was
killed in the "Fetterman" Indian massacre at Fort Phil
Kearney in December, 1866. By his second marriage Gen-
eral Carrington had two daughters, who survive him.
He also adopted a son of his wife's first marriage. Mrs.
Carrington is deceased. One daughter is the wife of
George F. Freeman (B.A. Bowdoin 1890), Surgeon,
U. S. A.

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General Carrington's sister married Rev. Edwin R. Gil-
bert (B.A. Yale 1829), pastor of the Congregational
Church in Wallingford, Conn., from 1832 to 1874, and a
member of the Yale Corporation from 1849 to ^74-

Constantine Canaris Esty, son of Dexter and Mary
Eames (Rice) Esty, was born December 26, 1824, at Fram-
ingham, Mass. He was named after Admiral Constantine
Canaris, a naval hero of modern Greece, and prime minister
of that nation. He was fitted for college at the academies
in his native town and in Leicester, Mass.

After graduation he taught about three months in Wash-
ington Institute, a preparatory school in charge of Timothy
Dwight Porter (B.A. Yale 1816) and Theodore Woolsey
Porter (B.A. Yale 1819), but in November, 1845, returned
home and entered the law office of Hon. Charles R. Train
(B.A. Brown 1837), then spent nearly a year in the Har-
vard Law School. He was admitted to the Massachusetts
bar, December 2, 1847, and since then had practiced his
profession in Framingham, at first in partnership with
Theodore C. Hurd. In 1855-56 he was actively associated
with Mr. F. B. Sanborn of Concord and others in the
work for free soil in Kansas.

He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1857
and 1858, and from 1862 to 1866 was by appointment of
President Lincoln assessor of internal revenue for the dis-
trict of Massachusetts then represented in Congress by
his former law preceptor, Mr. Train. In the fall of 1866
he was removed for political reasons, but chosen to repre-
sent his town in the state legislature. The following
March he was reappointed assessor. In November, 1872,
he was elected to Congress to fill the unexpired term of
Hon. George M. Brooks, who had resigned. From 1871
to 1879 he was a member of the Massachusetts Board of
Education, and was one of the state commissioners on the

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location and erection of the State Insane Asylum at
Danvers, Mass. In May, 1874, he was appointed by Gov-
ernor William B. Washburn (B.A. Yale 1844) first judge
of the court of record, Framingham district, and served
till 1885, when he resigned. He was for a number of years
special solicitor of the Boston Water Board. Since May,
1910, he had been dean of the Middlesex county bar.

In his later years he was greatly interested in historical
study, and was long a member of the Framingham His-
torical and Natural History Society. For several years he
was secretary of the Middlesex South Agricultural Society.
He was a delegate to the National Congregational Council
in 1865.

Judge Esty died after an illness of several months at
his home in Framingham, December 27, 191 2, at the age
of 88 years and 1 day.

He married at Sutton, Mass., October 18, 1849, Emily
S., daughter of Dr. David March (B.A. Brown 181 1)
and Catharine (Monroe) March, and a cousin of Rev.
Daniel March (B.A. Yale 1840) and John M. Sibley (B.A.
Yale 1843). They had three sons and two daughters,
all of whom are living. A grandson, Charles A. Esty,
graduated from the College in 1904.

1847

Daniel Thew Wright, son of Nathaniel Wright, LL.D.
(B.A. Dartmouth 181 1) and Caroline Augusta (Thew)
Wright, was born November 25, 1825, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He was prepared for college in the public schools of his
native city and entered the Class in Sophomore year.

After graduation he spent two years in the Harvard Law
School, and during this time was a frequent guest at the
home of Longfellow, a former pupil of his father's. He
received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1850, and

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returning to Cincinnati, read law for a time in the office
of Judge Alphonso Taft (B.A. Yale 1833), was admitted
to the Cincinnati bar the same year, and practiced his pro-
fession there in the firm of Lord & Wright, until appointed
Judge of the Supreme Court Commission of Ohio in 1876.
At the expiration of his term of office in 1879 ne returned
to practice, and with his sons formed the firm of Wright
& Wright.

Soon after his return to Cincinnati he joined others in
forming the Literary Club. He was the author of the
novel, "Mrs. Armington's Ward," and several short
stories. During the Civil War he acted as a volunteer
nurse in the Union army after the battle of Pittsburgh
Landing. He was a Republican, but had little .taste for
political life, and declined a nomination for Congress in
1862. In 1875 he accompanied General John Pope upon
an eight-hundred mile inspection trip by wagon train from
Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe.

Judge Wright died at the German Deaconess Hospital in
Cincinnati, September 11, 1912, in the 87th year of his
age. He had apparently been recovering from an operation
performed several weeks before. He was a member of the
Second Presbyterian Church.

He married in Cincinnati, March 7, 1859, Juliet F., daugh-
ter of John Rogers, a leading merchant, and had three sons
and four daughters, all of whom with Mrs. Wright survive
him. One son (LL.B. Cincinnati Law School 1887) is
a justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
A brother graduated from Dartmouth in 1857, and two
nephews from Yale College, in 1892 and 1899, respectively.

1848

David Samuel Calhoun, younger son of Rev. George
Albion Calhoun, D.D. (B.A. Hamilton 1814) and Betsey
(Scovell) Calhoun, was born September 11, 1827, at

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Coventry, Conn. His father was for nearly forty-nine
years pastor of the Second Congregational Church there,
trustee from its organization of the Theological Institute of
Connecticut at East Windsor Hill (now Hartford Theo-
logical Seminary), and Fellow of Yale from 1849 to 1864.
He was prepared for college at Ellington, Conn., and
Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.

After graduation he opened a school for boys at Ravenna,
Ohio, but finding the climate unsuited to him returned to
Coventry the next year and taught in the academy until
March, 1850, when he entered the law office of Chief
Justice Origen S. Seymour (B.A. Yale 1824), at Litchfield,
Conn., and was admitted to the bar, December 17, 1851.

In February, 1852, he opened a law office at North Man-
chester, Conn., where he remained nearly eighteen years.
For twelve years he was judge of probate of Manchester,
and a trial justice for several years, also chairman of the
school board. In 1856 and 1862 he was state senator, and
in 1862-63 ex-officio Fellow of Yale.

In November, 1869, he removed his office to Hartford,
and since 1870, had resided in that city. He formed a
partnership with Mahlon R. West, Esq., in the firm of
West & Calhoun, which continued seven years. In March,

1876, his health failed from overwork, but in January,

1877, he was appointed judge of the Court of Common
Pleas of Hartford County. He loved the law as a science,
and the reading of his opinions at the weekly bar meetings
on the cases coming before him, showing his thorough
study of the law and authorities and his analytical power,
were appreciated by his colleagues. After twenty years of
service, he retired on reaching the constitutional age limit.
In 1889 he declined an offer of the Chief Justiceship, hop-
ing that a friend would receive it.

In 1888 he spent much time in Scotland, England, and
France. In 1898 he made a trip through southern Europe.
He was a vice-president of the Scotch-Irish Society of

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America, and a member of the Connecticut Historical
Society.

Judge Calhoun died of apoplexy with complications at
his home in Hartford, November 7, 1912, at the age of
85 years.

He married at Coventry, November 7, 1852, Harriet
Antoinette, daughter of Jasper and Elizabeth (Rose) Gil-
bert, who died in 1868. February 16, 1870, he married
Eliza Jane, daughter of Dr. William J. and Emerett
(Mcintosh) Scott, of Manchester, who died September 18,
191 1. By his first marriage he had five sons and three
daughters. Four of the sons and one daughter are
deceased. The surviving son graduated from the Sheffield
Scientific School in 1877.

Henry Martyn Parsons, next to the youngest of the
six children of Rev. Isaac Parsons (B.A. Yale 181 1) and
Sarah Budd (Lyon) Parsons, was born November 13, 1828,
at East Haddam, Conn., where for forty years his father
was pastor of the Congregational Church. He was fitted
for college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.

After graduation he taught a select school in Lyme,
Conn., two years, and in Richmond (Va.) Academy a
year. While in Richmond he united with Grace Street
Presbyterian Church, and the same year entered the Con-
necticut Theological Institute at East Windsor (Hartford
Theological Seminary). Graduating from there in 1854,
on November 15 he was ordained and installed associate
pastor of the First Congregational Church in Springfield,
Mass., and on the death of the pastor, Rev. Samuel Osgood,
D.D. (B.A. Dartmouth 1805), in 1862, succeeded him.
While in Springfield he declined several calls elsewhere,
but in 1870 accepted the associate pastorate with Rev.
Nehemiah Adams, D.D. (B.A. Harvard 1826), at the Union
Church, Boston, Mass. Resigning from this pastorate
after four years, he preached at the Springfield Street

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Presbyterian Church in that city for eight months, and
for two years taught the International Lessons to large
classes of Sunday school teachers in Boston, Cambridge,
and Charlestown. In February, 1876, he became pastor
of the Olivet Congregational Church in Boston, but in
October, 1877, was called to the Lafayette Street Presby-
terian Church, Buffalo, N. Y. From there he went in April,
1880, to the pastorate of the Knox Presbyterian Church
in Toronto, Canada, where he continued twenty years, and
since 1900 had been pastor emeritus. In 1888 the church
gave him and his wife a trip to Europe, at the time when
he was a member of the International Missionary Confer-
ence, and a delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian Council, both
meeting in London. He received the degree of Doctor of
Divinity from Knox College, Toronto, in 1888.

Dr. Parsons died after a lingering illness at his home in
Toronto, January 14, 191 3, in the 85th year of his age.
The burial was in the Peabody Cemetery, Springfield, and
was preceded by a memorial service in the First Congre-
gational Church, where he had been ordained and had held
his first pastorate.

He married in Richmond, Va., January 16, 1855, Mary
Elizabeth, daughter of Russell and Mary (Baldwin) Dud-
ley of Richmond, Va. She died in Boston in 1874, and
December 13, 1876, he married Sarah Johnson, daughter
of Samuel and Adeline (Cushing) Adams of Camden,
Me., who died in Toronto in 1882. December 4, 1884,
he married Mary Catherine, daughter of Rev. Samuel
Kirby Sneed (B.A. Yale 1820) and Rachel O. (Crosby)
Sneed of Kirkwood, Mo., who survives him.

By his first marriage he had three sons and four daugh-
ters, of whom two sons and one daughter are deceased.
The youngest daughter is the wife of Rev. John Timothy
Stone, D.D. (B.A. Amherst 1891). By his second mar-
riage he had a son (B.A. Toronto 1903) and a daughter,
of whom the latter died in infancy.

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1 349

Ellsworth Eliot, second son of Wyllys and Lucy
(Camp) Eliot, was born September 15, 1827, in North
Guilford, Conn.

After graduation from college he studied medicine in
Guilford and New Haven a year, and in the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, two years,
receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine from there in
1852. He was house surgeon of Bellevue Hospital, New
York City, a year, and since May, 1853, had practiced medi-
cine in that city until his retirement about 1898. He was
one of the attending physicians of the Northern Dispensary
from 1854 to 1858. He served as surgeon at Antietam in
the Civil War. In 1867 he was elected a trustee of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, and appointed regis-
trar of that institution in 1868. In 1872 and 1873 he was
chosen president of the Medical Society of the County of
New York, and in 1875-76 was vice-president of the Med-
ical Society of the State of New York. In 1892 and .again
the following year he was elected president of the New
York Society for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans
of Medical Men.

He was a life member of the New York Historical
Society, and the New York Genealogical and Biographical
Society, and for several years vice-president of the latter.

Dr. Eliot died, after two weeks' illness of broncho-pneu-
monia, at his home in New York City, December 9, 1912, at
the age of 85 years.

He married in Boston, Mass., May 7, 1856, Anna, daugh-
ter of Joshua and Ruth Shaw (Sumner) Stone of Boston,
Mass., and had four daughters and a son (B.A. 1884) . Mrs.
Eliot died January 2^, 1905. The youngest daughter and
the son are living.

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1850

Daniel Bonbright, son of Daniel and Mary (Smith)
Bonbright, was born March 10, 183 1, at Youngstown,
Westmoreland County, Pa. He entered Yale in Junior
year from Dickinson College.

The first year after graduation he taught in Georgia,
the following two years in Downingtown, Pa., and then for
a short time was a student in the Yale Divinity School.
From January, 1854, to July, 1856, he was Tutor in Yale
College, and was then appointed Professor of the Latin
Language and Literature in Northwestern University at
Evanston, 111. He then spent two years in the univer-
sities of Berlin, Bonn, and Gottingen, and in 1858 entered
upon a service in Northwestern University which con-
tinued fifty-four years. He was long secretary of the
faculty, Librarian, and chairman of the faculty committee
of the College of Liberal Arts on the Library, and when in
Germany in 1870 secured the purchase of the classical
and philosophical library of Johann Schulze. In 1866 he
was one of the founders of the Evanston Philosophical
Society. He had the chief part in determining the plans
of University Hall. From 1899 to 1902 he was Dean of
the College of Liberal Arts. He declined the presidency
of the University offered him on three different occasions,
but following the resignation of President Henry Wade
Rogers (now Dean of the Yale Law School), was Acting
President of the University from 1900 to 1902. During
this time he did much to develop and coordinate the various
branches of the University.

In 1850 he received the degree of Master of Arts in
course from Yale, in 1873 that of Doctor of Laws from
Lawrence University, and in 1908 the same degree from
Northwestern University.

Dr. Bonbright died of angina pectoris at Daytona, Fla.,
November 2J, 1912, at the age of 81 years. He had reached
Florida from Evanston less than a week previous.

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He married at Evanston, August 28, 1890, Alice Dora,
daughter of Rev. Joseph Cummings, D.D., LL.D. (B.A.
Wesleyan 1840), President of Northwestern University
from 1 88 1 to 1890, and Deborah Stover (Haskell) Cum-
mings. A son, a member of the Class of 191 3 in North-
western University, and a daughter, with Mrs. Bonbright,
survive him.

He had been a trustee of the First Methodist Church in
Evanston since 1886.

Cyprian Strong Brainerd, Jr., son of Cyprian Strong
Brainerd, a farmer and for forty years deacon, and Florilla
(Hull) Brainerd, was born August 4, 1828, at Haddam,
Conn. His father died in 1880 and his mother in 1897.
He was one of the first pupils of Brainerd Academy there.

After graduation he taught school two years at Central
Village, Conn., then a year each in a girls' seminary at
Aberdeen, Miss., and in Berkshire, N. Y., and Danville,
N. Y. In the summer of 1856 he entered the law office
of his cousin, Roswell C. Brainerd, and in 1857 and 1858
was private secretary to Samuel S. Powell, mayor of
Brooklyn. In i860 in company with his uncle he engaged
in the sale of proprietary medicines in New York City,
but this business was suspended the following year owing
to the outbreak of the Civil War, and he returned to the
law. He was admitted to the bar in 1863, and practiced
till 1865, when he resumed the wholesale drug business
in the firm of C. E. Hull & Co., and continued in it until
about twenty years ago. In later years other enterprises
and the care of estates occupied much of his time. He
was one of the incorporators of the Middlesex County
Hospital at Middletown.

His father was for forty years leader of the choir of
the First Congregational Church of Haddam, and as a
memorial of his parents he gave the church on its two
hundredth anniversary in 1900 a pipe organ, and in 1908

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in their memory built a public library, which he afterward
endowed. Mr. and Mrs. Brainerd provided musical recitals
and concerts each summer which were greatly enjoyed by
the people of the village.

Mr. Brainerd died of angina pectoris, August 16, 1912,
at his summer home at Haddam Neck, in the house in
which he was born, and which was built by his great-
grandfather in 1792. He was 84 years of age. He was
buried in New Haven.

He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 2, 1877, Harriet
E., daughter of Frederick Henry and Mary (Mix) Harri-
son. She survives him. They had no children.

Besides other public legacies, Mr. Brainerd left a direct
bequest to the Medical Department of the University, and
a further bequest to that Department subject to life
interests.

John Day Easter, son of John and Susan Bayard
(Perkins) Easter, was born August 24, 1830, in Baltimore,
Md. After preparation at private schools in and near
Baltimore, he spent over a year at Dickinson College, and
entered Yale the second term of Junior year.

After graduation he taught at Alexandria, Va., and
studied chemistry in the Yale Analytical Laboratory and
in Philadelphia, Pa., until September, 1852. Then he went
abroad, and continued his studies in Gottingen, Germany,
and at the School of Mines in Freiberg, Germany, where
he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1855.
During a few months of that year he was assistant on the
Mississippi Geological Survey, but resigned on account of
ill health, and for a time had charge of the laboratory of
the Smithsonian Institution. From 1856 to 1859 ne was
Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of
Georgia. In 1861 he published a translation of Frick's
Technical Physics.

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Meantime he studied theology under Bishop Stephen
Elliott, by whom he was ordained Deacon in the Protestant
Episcopal Church at Savannah, November 30, 1859, and
Priest in i860. After preaching- three months in Christ
Church, he removed to St. Mary's, Ga., and in i860 had
charge of two churches forty miles apart. On account of
the scattering of the coast population on the breaking out
of the Civil War, he removed to Rome, Ga., and in the
spring of 1862 he was commissioned as a chaplain in the
Confederate army. Until the close of the war he was on
duty in the hospitals in Rome. In the winter of 1865 he
took charge of a parish at Tuscaloosa, Ala., from 1868 till
January, 1872, was at Trinity Church, St. Louis, Mo., and
then at St. John's Church, in Howard County, Md. In
April, 1875, ne became Dean of the Cathedral Church in
Omaha, Nebr., and was then in charge of Trinity Church,
at Jacksonville, 111., but on account of the failure of his
health removed to California, where he was in active
service in Redlands until his retirement in 1899.

He died in Redlands, January 6, 1912, in the 82d year
of his age.

Mr. Easter married in New York City, October 29, 1857,
Harriet Frances, daughter of Dr. Henry and Helen Coley,
who died in 1866. By her he had three sons and a daugh-
ter. He married again, January 24, 1872, Mary E.,
daughter of J. Parker and Henrietta Doan, who survives
him. Their only child, a son, died in infancy. A son, Rev.
Henry Easter, and a daughter by his first marriage are
also living. A brother, Rev. George W. Easter, died
October 1, 191 1.

Moses Cook Welch, son of Dr. Archibald Welch (Hon.
M.D. Yale 1836) and Cynthia (Hyde) Welch, and grand-
son of Rev. Moses Cook Welch, D.D. (B.A. Yale 1772),
a Fellow of Yale College, was born July 31, 1827, in

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Mansfield, Conn. His father afterward lived in Wethers-
field, Conn.

His great-grandfather, Rev. Daniel Welch (B.A. Yale
1749), and grandfather (mentioned above), were pastors
in succession of the North parish in Mansfield for seventy
years. The former married a daughter of Moses Cook of
Hartford and Windsor.

After graduation he taught at Phillips Academy,
Andover, Mass., a year, was at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.,
and on a farm in West Hartford, Conn., a year for his
health, taught in Manchester, Conn., and from 1853 to
1855 was Tutor in the College. In 1856 he went to Kansas
as secretary of the colony at Waubonsee, and then spent
a year in the Yale Divinity School. Returning to Kansas,
he enlisted in the Second Kansas Volunteers for three
months, and served in the Missouri campaign. He was
ordained as an evangelist at Wethersfield, Conn., November
5, 1862, and was chaplain in the Fifth Connecticut Vol-
unteers until 1864, when he resigned on account of ill
health. In December of the same year he entered the
service of the Christian Commission at Nashville, Tenn.,
and remained there until the end of the war.

From 1867 to 1876 he was pastor of the Congregational
Church at Mansfield, Conn. He then organized a church
at Pomona, Fla., of which he was pastor from 1882 to 1897.

He received the degree of Master of Arts in course,
and also in 1902 on examination, his thesis being on "The
Influence of Foreign Nations upon Israel."

Later he lived in Hartford, Conn., where he died from
the infirmities of age, April 7, 1913, at the age of 85 years.

He married in Windsor, Conn., in 1864, Sarah Dwight
Mills, daughter of Timothy Dwight and Sarah (Welles)
Mills of Windsor, and had three children. She died about
1909, but a daughter survives him. Two of his nephews
graduated from the Academical Department in 1882 and
1889, respectively, a brother in 1842, and a brother-in-law,
Elisha W. Cook, in 1837.

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1851

Francis Richard Lincoln, son of Levi Roberts and
Luanda HaiT (Holmes) Lincoln, was born June 4, 1828,
in Boston, Mass., where his father was for ten years an
appraiser in the Custom House. At an early age he was
left an orphan. He was prepared for college at Phillips
(Andover) Academy.

After graduation he taught for several years,- and then
studied medicine, in Cincinnati, Ohio, receiving the degree
of Doctor of Medicine from the Ohio College of Medi-
cine in i860. He practiced successfully for some years at
Lacon, Marshall County, 111., but in November, 1866, moved
to Monmouth, 111., and engaged in the drug business. He
was also deputy county clerk for nearly twelve years.
In April, 1886, he moved to Phillips County, Kans., and
settled in Logan, where he had since resided. He was at
one time editor of the Logan Republican, and afterwards
a newspaper correspondent. He excelled as a "para-
grapher." He served on school boards and as police judge.

Dr. Lincoln died after an illness of two months at his
home in Logan, March 8, 1913, in the 85th year of his
age. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church in
Logan, and for many years before his death its treasurer.

He married at Painesville, Ohio, October 12, i860,
Catharine Bliss, daughter of Roswell Cook and Amanda
Melvina (Jones) Jerome, and had two sons, of whom one
died in infancy.

1852

Charles William Curtiss, son of Solomon and Sarah
Leavenworth (Cook) Curtiss, was born June 25, 1831, in
Bristol, Conn. He was fitted for college in Williston
(Mass.) Seminary and the Sally Lewis Academy in
Southington. He left college at the end of Freshman year,
but joined the class again the second term of Junior year.

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After graduation he taught a year at Plainville, Conn.,
and spent the three years following in travel and studying
chemistry and geology at the University of Gottingen. In
1857-58 he was principal of the High School at Madison,
Wise, and in 1859-60 of the preparatory department of
Northwestern University at Evanston, 111. In 1861 he
taught at Dixon, 111., the following year served six months
in the First Illinois Artillery, Battery F, and in 1863 taught
at Franklin Grove, 111. In 1864 he returned to Connecticut
and spent four years in farming, and then resumed teach-
ing in Illinois, at Cortland and other towns in Dekalb
County, where he continued until 1881.

He then removed to Chicago, where he resided for over
thirty years and was connected with the Deering Harvester
Co. as mechanic until 1908.

Mr. Curtiss died at his home in Chicago, September 26,
1912, at the age of 81 years. He was a member of Wesley
Methodist Church, Chicago.

He married, September 7, 1864, Mary, daughter of Rev.
M. Decker, a Methodist clergyman, and Hester (Dunlap)
Decker, of Franklin Grove, 111., and had three sons and
one daughter. The eldest son graduated from the Univer-
sity Dental College in 1898, the second son from the
Hahnemann Homeopathic Medical College in 1901, and the
youngest son from Northwestern University in 1908.

John Coertland DuBois, only child of Stephen Augus-
tus and Rachel A. (Schryver) DuBois, was born August
10, 183 1, at Rhinebeck, N. Y. He was prepared for col-
lege at the academy in that town, of which his father was
one of the founders, and entered at the beginning of
Sophomore year. In 1851 his father moved to Hudson,
N. Y., where he was later president of the Hudson River
Bank.

After graduation he studied medicine with Drs. John
P. Wheeler and Elbert Simpson, and entering the Uni-

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versity Medical College in New York City in 1854 received
the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the New York
University in 1857. From 1856 to 1858 he was house
surgeon in the New York Hospital. From the spring of
1858 to the autumn of i860 he studied in the hospitals of
Paris and traveled abroad, and again in 1869 he was
traveling in Europe. During the Civil War he was acting
assistant surgeon in the United States Army, serving on
transports on the James River, and at Beaufort and Morris
Island, S. C, at Elmira, the David's Island Hospital, and
the Grant General Hospital, Willets Point, N. Y.

Since the war his home has been at Hudson, N. Y.
He did not practice his profession there, but was super-
intendent of schools, a member of the editorial staff of
The Hudson Republican for a time, director of the
National Hudson River Bank of Hudson, and held other
positions of trust, but never any political office. He was
greatly interested in the Franklin Library Association.

The winters since 1876 he had spent at Montague, near
Ocala, Fla., and he was a director of the Merchants'
National Bank of Ocala.

Dr. DuBois died at his home in Hudson, April 29, 1913,
in the 82d year of his age. He had lived in the same house
since about 1870.

He married, May 25, 1869, Evelina Patterson, daughter
of Elias William and Julia A. (Patterson) Kimball of
Hudson, who died December 12, 1881. Two sons (the
elder Ph.B. Yale 1890) and three daughters survive.

1853

Edson Lyman Clark, son of Deacon Ithamar and
Ursula (Lyman) Clark, was born April 1, 1827, at East-
hampton, Mass.

After graduation he taught three years in New York
City, and then studied two years in Union Theological
Seminary. From 1858 to 1867 he was pastor of the Con-

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gregational Church in Dalton, Mass., where he was
ordained November 30, 1859. He was then pastor at
North Branford, Conn., ten years, then preached in Massa-
chusetts, in succession at Southampton, from 1877 to 1886,
at Norwich Hill, about a year, Charlemont from 1889 to
1892, and Peru from 1893 to 1898, residing during the last
period at Hinsdale. His health for some years had been
precarious owing to a severe breakdown from overwork,
and in 1899, retiring from pastoral work, he returned to
Dalton, where he had since lived, active so far as his
health permitted in the interests of the church and of the
town.

Mr. Clark was a member of the American Oriental
Society, and greatly interested in archaeological discovery
in southwestern Asia and Egypt. He was the author of
"The Arabs and the Turk," 1876; "The Races of Euro-
pean Turkey," 1878; and "Fundamental Questions, chiefly
relating to the Book of Genesis and the Hebrew Scrip-
tures," 1882. "The Races of European Turkey" in a
popular edition with the title "History of Turkey," was
widely read. The last was one of the series of Standard
Histories.

Mr. Clark died of pneumonia at his home in Dalton,
March 2, 191 3, in the 86th year of his age.

He married in New York City, December 8, 1858, Jane
Elizabeth, daughter of Eli and Sarah (Healey) Stone of
New York City. She died December 19, 1905, and their
three children— two daughters and a son— are also
deceased.

Alexander David Stowell, son of Alexander and
Mary Goodloe (Hyde) Stowell, was born January 7, 1827,
at Caroline, N. Y. He joined the Class of 1852 from
Adelbert College (Western Reserve University).

After graduation he taught at Peru and Rockford, 111.,
two years, and then took the course in Union Theological

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Seminary. He was ordained by the New Haven West
Consociation and installed pastor of the Woodbridge
(Conn.) Congregational Church, November 17, 1858. He
resigned in i860, and was then acting pastor in East Gran-
ville, Mass., three years, and Southampton, Mass., two
years. After being settled at Wilbraham, Mass., two years,
in 1867 he removed to Elmira, N. Y., and preached in that
vicinity for three years. He was then pastor in Muskegon,
Mich., two years, and also owned and published a daily
paper there, but on account of ill health returned to New
York state, settling in Groton, and preached at the church
in West Groton from 1873 to 1877. He was pastor in
Nichols, N. Y., till 1880, in 1881 and 1882 supplied the
united churches of Richford and Harford, and was then
in Elmira until 1884. After living in Newark Valley with-
out pastoral charge until 1889, he removed to Binghamton,
N. Y., and in 1890 retired from active life, although preach-
ing occasionally for a few months at a time.

Mr. Stowell died of heart trouble at his home in Bing-
hamton, January 22, 1913, at the age of 86 years.

He married at Grafton, Mass., September 29, 1858,
Louise Henderson Leland, daughter of John M. and Mary
Ann (Merriam) Leland, and had two sons and three
daughters. The elder son received the degree of Doctor
of Medicine from New York University in 1881.

Joseph Warren, son of Peter Horton Warren, an early
settler in Columbia, N. Y., was born in that place, July
13, 1830. His mother was Emeline (Morgan) Warren.
After a preparatory course at the Clinton Liberal Institute,
then at Clinton, N. Y., and two years in Dartmouth Col-
lege, he joined his class at Yale in 1851. He was a member
of the first crew that rowed against Harvard on Lake
Winnipesaukee.

After graduation he was at first in banking, and then
in the tanning business in Mohawk, N. Y. In 1868 finan-

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cial misfortune overtook him, and in 1870 he removed to
Boston, Mass., where he was in the leather business with
Albert Thompson & Co. until the great fire of 1872, and
then with the Maverick National Bank, and since 1891 in
the office of Elmer P. Howe (B.A. Yale 1876). He was
also connected with the organization of the United States
Shoe Machinery Co. and other industrial corporations, and
was for some years auditor of the Hotel and Railroad
News Co. of Boston.

Mr. Warren died of cerebral hemorrhage, after a brief
illness at a private hospital in Dorchester, Boston, Novem-
ber 2, 1912, at the age of 82 years. He was never married.

i854

William Washington Gordon, son of William Wash-
ington Gordon (U. S. Mil. Acad. 1815), a lawyer and first
president of the Central of Georgia Railway, and Sarah
Anderson (Stites) Gordon, was born at Savannah, Ga.,
October 14, 1834. He was prepared for college in New
Haven at the Hopkins Grammar School and under a tutor.

After graduation he returned to Savannah, and entered
the house of Tison & Mackay, cotton and rice factors,
as a clerk. Upon the withdrawal of Mr. Mackay from the
business, in July, 1856, the firm of Tison & Gordon was
formed and the business continued until the Civil War
brought it to a standstill. In May, 1861, Mr. Gordon
entered the Confederate service as sergeant of the Georgia
Hussars, attached to Stuart's cavalry, and was made sec-
ond lieutenant in September following. From February,
1863, to December, 1864, he was captain and inspector
of General Mercer's infantry brigade, and then captain
and adjutant in General R. H. Anderson's brigade,
Wheeler's cavalry. He was especially mentioned for
gallantry at the battle of Frederick City, Md., and passed
through many battles, but escaped unharmed except for a
slight wound at the battle of Love joy Station, Ga.

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In October, 1865, at the close of the war, the firm of
Tison & Gordon resumed business, and continued until the
death of Mr. Tison in 1877, when it was succeeded by
W. W. Gordon & Co. Of this firm General Gordon con-
tinued the active head to the close of his life, his younger
son and a nephew being associated with him in recent years.
He was a charter member and from 1876 to 1878 presi-
dent of the Savannah Cotton Exchange. At the celebra-
tion of the receipt of two million bales of cotton at the
port of Savannah in the summer of 1912 General Gordon
gave a history of the Exchange and of the port as he had
known it. From January, 1895, to 1898, he was vice-
president of the Merchants' National Bank, and for about
fifteen years director of the Central Railroad and Bank-
ing Co. of Georgia. He was also a director of the Southern
Pine Co. and the De Soto Hotel. In addition he was much
interested in farming and had a plantation near Louisville,
Ga. He was a representative in the General Assembly of
Georgia in 1884-85, 1886-87, and 1888-89.

During the yellow fever epidemic in Savannah in 1876
he remained in the city throughout the summer as a vol-
unteer nurse. He had had an attack of the fever himself
in 1854. For fifty years he was a member of the Savannah
Benevolent Association, which was established to care for
the sick during epidemics, and from 1890 to 1892 was its
president. He was also one of the founders and a director
of the Associated Charities.

He was the senior officer in the state militia and several
times commanded the state troops in time of riot.

In the Spanish war he served as brigadier general of the
United States volunteer forces from May, 1898, to March,
1899, and was assigned to the Second Brigade, First Divi-
sion, Fourth Army Corps, encamped at Miami and Jack-
sonville, Fla. He was appointed by President McKinley
a member of the Porto Rico evacuation commission with
General John R. Brooke and Admiral Schley.

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It was largely through his efforts that the Yale Alumni
Association of Savannah was formed in 1902. Of this
he was the first president. In 1909 he was appointed a
member of the general alumni committee on a memorial
to the Federal and Confederate graduates of Yale who
lost their lives in the Civil War, and had been enthusiastic
and helpful in his service.

General Gordon died of acute indigestion at White
Sulphur Springs, W. Va., September 11, 1912, in the 78th
year of his age. He had been seriously ill for more than
six weeks. He was a member of Christ Church in
Savannah.

He married at Chicago, 111., December 21, 1857, Eleanor
Lytle, daughter of Major John H. Kinzie, U. S. A., and
the celebration of their fiftieth anniversary was an event
of great interest. They had two sons and four daughters.
One daughter is deceased, but the other children, with
Mrs. Gordon, survive him. The sons graduated from the
Sheffield Scientific School in 1886 and 1892, respectively.
His eldest daughter is the wife of Hon. Richard Wayne
Parker (B.A. Princeton 1867).

Stewart Lyndon Woodford, son of Josiah Curtis and
Susan (Terry) Woodford, was born September 3, 1835,
in New York City. He was prepared for college at the
Columbia Grammar School, and entered Columbia Univer-
sity, but the following year came to Yale. At the end of
Junior year, he left on account of the necessity of his being
at home, and graduated at Columbia. He received from
both universities the degree of Master of Arts in 1866,
and by vote of the Corporation was enrolled with his Class
at Yale in 1904.

He studied law in the office of Brown, Hall & Vander-
poel, in New York City, was admitted to the bar there in
1857, and February 1, 1858, formed a partnership with
his classmate, Thomas G. Ritch, which under various firm

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names continued till the death of Mr. Ritch in 1907. From
1870 to 1882 William H. Arnoux, afterward judge of the
Superior Court of New York, was a member of the firm,
then known as Arnoux, Ritch & Woodford. Later the
title was, in succession, Ritch, Woodford, Bovee & Wallace,
then Ritch, Woodford, Bovee & Butcher, and recently
Wroodford, Bovee & Butcher.

He was always ready to serve the community and the
nation as opportunity came, and his service covered many
fields and extended through a long period. In i860 he was
a delegate to the Republican National Convention which
nominated Abraham Lincoln for President of the United
States, and was the official messenger of the state of New
York to convey to Washington the electoral vote of the
state. He declined the offer of a federal judgeship in the
territory of Nebraska, but early in 1861 became assistant
district attorney for the southern district of New York.

This office he resigned the following year, and enlisted
as a private in Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-
seventh Regiment of New York Volunteers, of which he
was made captain, and later lieutenant-colonel. After
serving in the defences of Washington a few months, he
was transferred to Suffolk, Va., when it was besieged
by General Longstreet. Subsequently he was attached to
the Eleventh Corps, Army of the Potomac, was then with
his regiment at Morris Island, S. C, and after the fall
of Fort Wagner was in charge of the batteries employed
against Fort Sumter and Charleston. During the greater
part of 1864 he served as judge advocate-general of the
Department of the South, provost marshal-general, and
chief of staff to Major-General Gilmore, commanding that
department. He took part in several engagements on the
coast, was promoted to the rank of colonel, and was later
brevetted brigadier-general for service in the field. He
was the first military governor of Charleston after its
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was then transferred to the command of Savannah. He
then resigned from the army and returned to his law
practice.

He declined the office of judge of the court of common
pleas of New York City in 1865, but in the autumn of 1866
was elected lieutenant-governor of New York. At the
close of his term of office he declined a nomination for
Congress, and in 1870 was the Republican nominee for
governor of New York, but was defeated.

In 1872 he was a delegate tcthe Republican National
Convention, and was chosen to second General Grant's
nomination. He was president of the New York Electoral
College. In the fall of the same year he was elected to
Congress from Brooklyn, but after serving about two years
resigned on account of professional demands.

He was prominent in the Republican National Conven-
tions of 1876 and 1880 as a candidate for the Vice Presi-
dency, withdrawing in 1876 in favor of William A.
Wheeler, and in 1880 placing Chester A. Arthur in nomina-
tion. In the National Convention of 1908 he made the
speech presenting the name of Governor Charles E. Hughes
for President.

In 1877 he was appointed United States district attorney
for the southern district of New York by President Grant,
and reappointed by President Garfield in 1881. After his
retirement from this office he devoted himself to his private
practice.

General Woodford was appointed in 1896 by Governor
Morton a member of the Greater New York charter com-
mission, and in 1897 was appointed by President McKinley
United States Minister to Spain. Owing to conditions in
Cuba, this position was then one of unusual responsibility,
and his services were of the highest order. Pie did not
cease to work for peace until diplomatic relations were
actually severed. He left Madrid in April, 1898, but
continued titular minister to Spain until the following
September.

375

He was president and chairman of the executive com-
mittee of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission of
1909, and afterward visited the principal courts of Europe
to return the thanks of the state of New York for the
cooperation extended by the different countries.

General Woodford was a director and general counsel
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., trustee of the
Franklin Trust Co., and the City Savings Bank of Brook-
lyn, president of the New England Society of New York
City, and later of the similar society of Brooklyn, and
president of the Union League Club of Brooklyn.

He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws
from Trinity College in 1870, Dickinson College in 1889,
and Marietta College in 1908, also of Doctor of Canon Law
from Syracuse University in 1894.

He had been a trustee of Cornell University since 1867,
also trustee of the Adelphi Academy and Berkeley Insti-
tute of Brooklyn, and was president of the Phi Beta Kappa
Alumni of New York. He was also a trustee of the First
Presbyterian Church in New York City.

He was decorated with the order of the Rising Sun,
second class, by the Japanese emperor in 1908, and with
the Crown order of the first class by the German emperor
in 1910.

He was often a speaker on public occasions. Among his
earlier notable public addresses were the "Funeral Oration
at the Grave of Major-General George H. Thomas," 1870;
"Funeral Oration at the Grave of William H. Seward,"
1872; "Address in Commemoration of William Cullen
Bryant," 1878; "True Friends of the Union," Arlington,
1876.

In June, 1912, General Woodford was taken seriously
ill in Rowsley, Derbyshire, England, but after two months
was able to be brought back to this country. He was for
some time at his farm at Greens Farms, Conn., but died at
his New York home, February 14, 1913. He was jy years
of age. He was buried in Stamford, Conn.

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He married October 15, 1857, Julia Evelyn, daughter
of Henry Titcomb Capen, of the dry goods firm of H. B.
Clarlin & Co., of New York City, and Eliza (Collins)
Capen, and had a son and three daughters. She died in
1899. On September 26, 1900, he married Isabel, daugh-
ter of James S. and Eliza (Foster) Hanson, who was his
secretary while he was Minister to Spain, and who survives
him with one daughter by his first marriage.

1855

William DeWitt Alexander, son of Rev. William
Patterson Alexander, for fifty years a missionary in the
Sandwich Islands, and Mary Ann (McKinney) Alexander,
was born April 2, 1833, in Honolulu. He was named for
his mother's pastor, Rev. William DeWitt Hyde, D.D., of
Harrisburg, Pa., with whom he made his home while in
this country. After graduating from Oahu College in
Honolulu he came to the United States and was a member
of the Class of 1854 in Freshman year, but on account
of ill health he left college and taught school at Vincennes,
Ind. After a year he reentered college at the beginning
of Sophomore year, and finished the course as Salutatorian
of the Class of 1855.

After graduation he taught a year in Beloit College,
was private tutor in New York City, where he also studied
Hebrew, but in 1858 became Professor of Greek in Oahu
College, and in 1864 President. In 1871 he resigned this
office to become Surveyor General of the Hawaiian King-
dom, and continued in that position during the Provisional
Government and Republic, until the Territory of Hawaii
was organized in 1900. In 1887 he was also a member of
the Privy Council of State, and Knight Companion of the
Order of Kalakaua. In 1901 he was appointed to a posi-
tion on the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and
held this until his retirement in 1907.

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For many years he was a trustee of the Oahu College,
and he was vice-president of the Hawaiian Board of Edu-
cation, a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, member
of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, founder and
vice-president of the Hawaiian Historical Society, and
member of the Polynesian Society.

In 1884 he attended the International Meridian Con-
ference at Washington as a commissioner from Hawaii,
and in July, 1892, made a scientific expedition to the sum-
mit of Mauna Kea. In July, 1893, he was sent as a special
commissioner of the Provisional Government to Washing-
ton, returning the following March. He assisted in
drafting the constitution of the Republic of Hawaii.

He wrote "A Short Synopsis of Hawaiian Grammar,"
1864; A Paper on "Ancient Land Tenure in Polynesia,"
in the American Law Review, May, 1888; "A Brief His-
tory of the Hawaiian People," 1891, new edition 1899, and
a larger History (nearly finished) ; "Later Years of the
Hawaiian Monarchy and the Revolution of 1893," 1895 ;
"Brief History of the Kalakaua's Reign"; three mono-
graphs published by the Hawaiian Historical Society, and
many other articles ; also Reports and Maps of Government
Surveys.

He received the degree of Master of Arts from the Uni-
versity in 1858, and for his service in teaching science
and American methods of thought to the people of Hawaii
was also awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1903.
He was the first president of the Yale Alumni Association
of Hawaii.

Dr. Alexander died at Queen's Hospital, Honolulu,
February 21, 1913, in the 80th year of his age.

He married at Lahaina, H. I., July 18, i860, Abigail
Charlotte, sister of Rev. David Dwight Baldwin (B.A.
Yale 1857), an<3 eldest daughter of Rev. Dwight Baldwin,
M.D. (B.A. Yale 1821), and Charlotte (Fowler) Baldwin.
They had three sons and two daughters, who with Mrs.

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Alexander survive him. Their golden wedding was cele-
brated in 1910. His second son, Arthur Chambers,
graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1889.

Edwin Corning, son of Jasper and Abigail (Kibbe)
Corning, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 7, 1835.
When he was about four years old the family removed to
Brooklyn, N. Y., where he was fitted for college at Brown's
School. In 185 1 the family removed to New York City.

After graduation he was in the banking and brokerage
business with his father in New York, under the firm name
of Jasper Corning & Son. His father had been a member
of the Stock Exchange since 1832, and in i860 he also
became a member. In 1865 he formed a partnership with
Charles G. Thompson in the stock and bond brokerage
business, which was dissolved in 1869, and for twenty years
thereafter he was in business alone. In 1888, with Cor-
nelius B. Gold and William D. Barbour, he established the
firm of Gold, Barbour & Corning, which continued until
1894. During the following ten years he again carried on
business alone, but in 1904 he sold his Stock Exchange seat.

Mr. Corning died of heart trouble at his home in New
York City, December 6, 191 2, at the age of J J years. The
burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery. He united with the
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York City
in 1859, but during his early married life he resided for
ten years in New Jersey, and for a number of years was
a deacon in the First Reformed Church of Hackensack.
Since 1876 he had been a member of the Brick Presbyterian
Church.

He married in New York City, October 10, 1861, Vir-
ginia Margaret, daughter of Thomas William Gibson, a
dry goods merchant of Philadelphia, and Caroline Emma
(Clark) Gibson. She died eight years before him, but their
son and three daughters survive.

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John Edgar was born May 22, 1825, in Quebec, Canada.
He entered college as a resident of Greenwich, Conn.

After graduation he taught, and studied in the Yale
Divinity School two years. From September, 1858 to
February, 1859, he was Assistant Librarian of the Col-
lege. In February, 1859, he began preaching at Falls
Village, Conn., where he was ordained as an evangelist
October 30, i860, and continued there until October, 1865.
During the summer of 1864 he was a delegate of the
United States Christian Commission in Virginia. On
leaving his work at Falls Village he was for a time in
Lisbon, Conn., and then removed to Rochester, Minn.,
where he became general selling agent for the reapers and
mowers of C. H. McCormick & Co. of Chicago. Since
1880 he had conducted a loan and mortgage business.

He died at his home in Minneapolis, September 13,
1912, at the age of 87 years. He was the oldest member
of the Class.

He married, October 31, 1861, Susan L., daughter of
Rev. Samuel Spring, D.D. (B.A. Yale 1811), long the
Congregational pastor there, and Lydia Maria (Norton)
Spring of East Hartford, Conn. She died in 1874, and
September 3, 1884, he married at New Sharon, Me.,
Susette P. Walker, who is also deceased. He had no
children by either marriage.

William Cutler Wyman, son of William and Abigail
(Cutler) Wyman, was born April 7, 1834, in Brooklyn,
N. Y., and was fitted there for college.

After graduation he taught a year in Brooklyn in the
Dwight High School of Rev. Benjamin W. Dwight, LL.D.
(B.A. Hamilton 1835), and then took the three-year course
in the Harvard Divinity School. Afterward he continued
his theological studies in New York City, and preached
occasionally, but was not ordained. He also studied law,
but in 1865 engaged in the tea business of Archer & Bull,

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in Brooklyn, N. Y., until his health failed. Since then he
had not been in active business, but resided in Brooklyn,
and Boston, Mass., and had a country home at Dublin,
N. H.

Air. Wyman died of heart failure in Boston, Mass.,
October 20, 19 12, at the age of 78 years.

He married October 15, 1867, at West Newton, Mass.,
Emma E., daughter of Sewell and Ruth (Weatherly)
White, of Newton, Mass., who died in April, 1912. Their
only daughter died in childhood.

1856

Joseph Richardson French, son of Joseph Jaquith and
Julia Ann (Flint) French, was born June 12, 1836, in
Boston, Mass. Both his parents died when he was very
young, and he was brought up by his uncle, in Andover,
Mass., where he was prepared for college at Phillips
Academy.

After graduation he taught in Stockbridge and Abing-
ton, Mass., two years, and then studied law in Boston and
Andover a year. From 1859 to J86i he practiced law
in Andover, and was then for a year private secretary to
the United States collector of customs, Hon. John Z.
Goodrich (M.A. Williams 1848), in Boston.

In April, 1862, he became a partner with J. Z. & C.
Goodrich in the Glendale Woolen Co. at Stockbridge,
Mass., and continued in the business eight years, reverses
following success. During three years he served on the
school board.

In 1870 he resumed teaching, which became his life
work. For four years he taught at Thomaston, Conn.,
and then became principal of the Center School in Meriden,
Conn. Retaining that position until 1881, he then removed
to New Haven, Conn., and was principal of the Skinner
School, and later principal of the Lovell School district,

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having charge of all the public schools in the district. In
1892-93 he was president of the State Teachers' Associa-
tion. Failing eyesight made it necessary for him to give
up his school work in June, 1897.

He was a frequent contributor to the Nezv England
Journal of Education, and wrote also for other educational
journals.

In 1884 he was nominated for membership in the Uni-
versity Corporation, but withdrew on account of the
candidacy of his classmate, Chauncey M. Depew. In 1891
he spent the summer in Europe with his classmate Catlin.

Following the death of Judge Henry E. Pardee in 1889
he was chosen class secretary and served to the close of
his life. His house in New Haven was a center for his
class and there in June, 1912, eleven members celebrated
their "second Sexennial."

Succeeding Judge Pardee also, he was president of the
Young Men's Institute of New Haven from 1892 to 1907.

In spite of repeated operations, Mr. French's sight
finally failed completely in 1906, but he kept up his accus-
tomed interests and activities to an extraordinary degree,
taking systematic exercise, walking in the White Mountains,
where he had a summer home, and learning to use a type-
writer for his correspondence and to read the type for the
blind.

He died of pneumonia, after a few days' serious illness,
January 3, 1913, in the 77th year of his age. He had been
an active and helpful member of the Church of the
Redeemer (Congregational) since 1882.

He married at Stockbridge, Mass., September 17, 1861,
Sarah Worthington, daughter of John Zaccheus Goodrich,
member of Congress and trustee of Williams College, and
Sarah (Worthington) Goodrich. She died in 1869, and
the two daughters by this marriage are both deceased.

He married at Thomaston, Conn., March 23, 1875, Mary
Amanda, only daughter of Thomas Jefferson Bradstreet

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(B.A. Yale 1834) and Amanda (Thomas) Bradstreet of
Thomaston. Two of her brothers graduated from the
Academical Department in 1871 and 1874, respectively.
Mrs. French survives with a son (B.A. Yale 1910) and
two daughters, one son and a daughter, the wife of Ulric
B. Mather (Ph.B. Yale 1904), having died. One of the
surviving daughters received the degree of Bachelor of
Arts from Smith College in 1902.

1857

Edmund Thompson Allen, son of Edmund and Sarah
Russell (Freeman) Allen, was born August 10, 1836, at
Fairhaven, Mass. He was prepared for college at the
Friends' Academy, New Bedford, Mass., and Williston
Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.

The year after graduation he taught French and mathe-
matics in the Friends' Academy at New Bedford, and the
same year began the study of law with Hon. John H.
Clifford (B.A. Brown 1827). After his admission to the
bar November 17, 1859, he practiced law in New Bedford
until August, 1863, when he removed to St. Louis, Mo.,
and practiced his profession there forty-nine years. Since
1887 he had been the senior member of the firm of E. T.
& C. B. Allen.

Until January, 1866, he was a stenographic reporter
in the Military Courts of the city, and during the two years
following in the civil courts. In 1866 he was also land
commissioner of St. Louis, then United States commis-
sioner of the Eastern District of Missouri, and from 1884
to 1890 special master in chancery in the United States
Circuit Court of the same district in the matter of the
Wabash receivership. He was president of the St. Louis
Bar Association in 1882-83.

From 1876 to 1895 he was secretary of the Crystal Plate
Glass Co., also from 1885 a director, and from 1883 to

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1885 was president of the Brush Electric Light Association.
He was a member of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and of the Academy of Science
of St. Louis.

Mr. Allen died of stomach trouble, at his home in St.
Louis, May 29, 191 2, in the 76th year of his age.

He married, January 13, 1863, Silvia T., daughter of
Martin Bowen of Fairhaven, Mass., and had two sons
(B.A. 1885 and 1888, respectively) and a daughter, who
survive him. Mrs. Allen died October 5, 1903.

David Dwight Baldwin, eldest son of Rev. Dwight
Baldwin, M.D. (B.A. Yale 1821), and Charlotte (Fowler)
Baldwin, was born November 26, 1831, at Honolulu,
Hawaii. His father was a missionary of the American
Board in the Hawaiian Islands and for over thirty years
pastor of the church in Lahaina on the Island of Maui,
also physician in a wide field. His mother was the daugh-
ter of Deacon Solomon Fowler of North Branford, Conn.
He was prepared for college at the Punahou School in
Honolulu.

While a student in college he was organist of the First
Congregational Church in Bridgeport, Conn. He received
the first Clark Premium for the solution of problems in
practical astronomy.

After graduation he returned by way of Cape Horn
to the Hawaiian Islands, where for several years he was
superintendent of government schools in the first section
of Maui. From i860 to 1862 he was a member of the
Hawaiian Parliament. From 1865 to 1872 he was manager
of the Kohala Sugar Co., on the Island of Hawaii, where
he introduced the "Lahaina" cane. Returning to the
United States with his family in 1873, he remained more
than a year in New Haven, was librarian of the Yale
Law School, and received the degree of Master of Arts
from the University in 1874. He then went back to

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Hawaii, and was assistant principal of Lahainaluna Sem-
inary from 1877, after which he was Inspector-General
of Schools under the monarchy until 1885. Under his
administration the English language was made quite gen-
erally the basis of instruction in the Island schools. He
also drew up the first course of study for the schools.
Resuming his position at Lahainaluna Seminary in 1886,
he remained there until 1890, and was then principal of
Hamakuapoke English School until his retirement in 1905,
after a connection of thirty-eight years with the Hawaiian
Department of Public Instruction. He became the pioneer
of the pineapple industry, which he introduced about 1890,
and was made vice-president and a director of the Haiku
Fruit and Packing Co., organized in 1903.

He was an acknowledged authority on Hawaiian land
shells and ferns. Of the former he had gathered an espe-
cially notable collection. After he retired from active
work he devoted himself to this collection, and to his
extensive scientific correspondence. In 1893 he published
a valuable "Catalogue of Land and Fresh-water Shells
of the Hawaiian Islands," and described many new species
of the Acatinellidae in articles published in the Proceedings
of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and
elsewhere.

Mr. Baldwin died of cancer at Queen's Hospital in
Honolulu, June 16, 1912, at the age of 80 years, an opera-
tion the previous February having given only temporary
relief. The funeral services were held in the Paia Union
Church, Maui, of which he had for many years been
organist and a faithful member.

He married at Bridgeport, Conn., October 7, 1857, Lois
Gregory Morris, daughter of Elliot Morris, and had six
sons and three daughters, of whom all but one son with
Mrs. Baldwin survive him and live on the Islands. Of
the sons, Erdman S. is a non-graduate member of the
Class of 1889 in the Sheffield Scientific School, and William

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A. graduated from that School in 1892. A sister married
William D. Alexander (B.A. Yale 1855), who died Feb-
ruary 21, 19 13. Four sons of his brother have graduated
from the Academical Department in 1897, 1898, 1904,
and 1908, respectively, and two sons of his sister, Mrs.
Samuel Mills Damon, were graduates of the same Depart-
ment in 1896 and 1906.

Joseph Newton Hallock, son of Ezra and Lydia
Emilie (Young) Hallock, was born July 4, 1832, at Frank-
linville, in the town of Southold, Long Island, N. Y., and
was fitted for college there. He was a member of the
Class of 1856 until the close of Junior year, when he
entered the following class.

After graduation he studied two years in the Divinity
School, and received the degree of Master of Arts in
course in i860. He also preached for a time in the Con-
gregational Church at Bridgewater, Conn., but did not
accept a call there. From i860 to 1865 he was principal
of the academy in his native village and at the neighbor-
ing village of Northville, and then after a six-months
course at Eastman's Business College in Poughkeepsie,
entered the publishing business with James Miller in New
York City.

In 1876 he purchased of E. Remington The Christian at
Work, a religious weekly, of which he became sole owner
and editor-in-chief in 1880, changing the name in 1894 to
The Christian Work, which became a widely-known unde-
nominational paper. With him on the editorial staff was
associated Rev. Dr. William M. Taylor, then pastor of
the Broadway Tabernacle, New York City. After the
death of Rev. Dr. Henry M. Field The Evangelist was con-
solidated with The Christian Work. Several other papers
were later joined with The Christian Work and Evangelist,
the last being, in August, 1912, the New York Observer.
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truth of the conservative side, and held a large Presbyterian
constituency through several critical periods. In 1906 he
received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from
Ursinus College.

Dr. Hallock traveled in nearly all parts of the world
and wrote several series of letters on his experiences.
Among his published volumes were "A History of South-
ampton," i860; an edition of Tacitus; "The Christian
Life," 1890; and "Life of D. L. Moody," 1900. His
lecture before the Congregational Club of Brooklyn in
1894 on Heresy was widely read in the papers, and after-
ward printed in pamphlet form. In 1897 he won the
Brooklyn Eagle prize for an argument in favor of the Gold
Standard of national money.

He was one of the incorporators and a director of the
State Trust Co. of New York, and a director of the
Metropolitan Realty Co., also of the Society for the
Prevention of Crime.

Dr. Hallock had been in ill health for two years, and
died of a general breaking down in health at his home in
Brooklyn, March 24, 191 3, in the 81 st year of his age.
He was a member of the Central Congregational Church.

He married at Brooklyn, September 27, 1864, Mary
Emilie, daughter of Nathan and Sarah Young. She died
October 12, 1912, but a son (B.A. Rutgers 1889) succeeds
his father as publisher.

Joseph Cooke Jackson, son of Hon. John P. and Eliza-
beth Huntington (Wolcott) Jackson, was born August 5,
1835, in Newark, N. J. He prepared for college at
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

After graduation he studied law and taught in his native
city a year, and was then in the law schools of New York
University and Harvard University two years, receiving
the degree of Bachelor of Laws from them respectively in
1859 and i860. He was admitted to the New York bar

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in May, i860, and the same year was a delegate to the
Republican National Convention.

On the fall of Fort Sumter he volunteered for service, and
from May to October, 1861, he was aide-de-camp to Briga-
dier-General Robert Anderson in Kentucky. He was then
commissioned second lieutenant of the First New Jersey
Volunteers, and appointed aide-de-camp to Brigadier-Gen-
eral Philip Kearney. In December he was transferred to the
staff of Major-General W. B. Franklin, and was with him
in the seven days' fight before Richmond. For gallantry
he was promoted to the rank of captain in the summer of
1862, and was assigned to the staff of the Sixth Corps,
Army of the Potomac. December 2, 1862, he was com-
missioned lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-sixth New
Jersey Infantry, and for gallant action at Fredericksburg
December 13 he was brevetted colonel. Soon afterward
his term of enlistment expired, and he was appointed
special commissioner of United States naval credits. He
established for New Jersey a credit of nineteen hundred
naval enlistments, which completed the quota of the state,
making the contemplated draft unnecessary. He was
brevetted Brigadier-general of volunteers March 13, 1865.

Resuming his law practice in New York, he was admitted
to practice in the United States Supreme Court in 1864,
and the same year was appointed a delegate to the ship
canal convention in Chicago. From 1864 to 1866 he was
a partner with Frederic Adams (B.A. Yale 1862), and
afterward, about 1890, with Charles B. Hubbell (B.A.
Williams 1874). In 1870 he was appointed by President
Grant assistant United States district attorney for the
Southern District of New York. Later he was counsel
for the Society of Political Reform, and for the New
York Bar Association in proceedings to purify the New
York bar, and counsel in proceedings for the removal of
police commissioners. He was counsel for railways, banks,
express and other corporations until his retirement in 1890.

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He organized the New York Republican Club, and was
a charter member of the first Union League Club there,
for fifteen years a trustee and vice-president of the Demilt
Dispensary, and long a director of the City Mission and
Tract Society of New York. He was one of the founders
of the Yale Alumni Association of New York, and for
thirteen years its vice-president and treasurer.

He contributed to the Evening Post, Tribune, and other
New York papers, and published "The Universality of
Law," 1873.

General Jackson died at his home in New York City,
May 22, 1913, in the 78th year of his age.

He married October 12, 1864, Catherine Perkins, daugh-
ter of Hon. Calvin Day and Catherine (Seymour) Day of
Hartford, and sister of his classmate, John C. Day. She
survives him with two sons and two daughters. One of
the sons graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in
1887, and the other from the Academical Department in
1890, from which a brother also graduated in 1871.

Michael Waller Robinson, son of John W. and Mary
B. (Avers) Robinson, was born October 13, 1837, near
Fulton, Callaway County, Mo. His father was a farmer
and stock raiser, a native of Culpeper County, Va., from
about 1783 to 1826 a resident of Kentucky, and then
settled in Callaway County, Mo., where during the last
years of his life he was a Baptist preacher.

After attending Fulton (later Westminster) College, and
Georgetown College, Ky., he entered Yale in Junior year.

After graduation he was Professor of Latin and Greek
in the Baptist State College (afterward named the William
Jewell College) at Liberty, Mo., three years, during the
last year being Acting President. In the meantime he also
studied law under General Alexander W. Doniphan, and
was admitted to the bar of Missouri in 1859. From
August, i860, to 1 86 1, he was a student in Harvard Law

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School. Returning to Fulton, Mo., he began the practice
of law in partnership with General John A. Hockaday.
While a member of the Legislature from 1861 to 1863 he
was chiefly occupied in endeavors to prevent unwise legis-
lation which the excitement of the time constantly threat-
ened. During the disorganization of all kinds of business
in 1864 Mr. Robinson was arrested and held for several
months as a military prisoner. Soon afterward he was
chosen a delegate to the Democratic National Convention
in Chicago which nominated General McClellan for Presi-
dent, and in the fall of 1864 settled in that city. For a
year each he was associated in practice with his classmate,
Norman C. Perkins and with J. P. Clarkson, and then with
Judge Lambert Tree (LL.B. Univ. Va. 1855). He was
afterward connected in business with John V. Lemoyne
three years, Lemuel Vernon Ferris (B.A. Middlebury
1867) two years, and then from 1879 witn Adolphus
Williamson Green (B.A. Harvard 1863).

In 1875 he was elected to the Illinois Senate, in which
he served two terms, and in 1878 was president of the
Democratic State Convention.

Mr. Robinson died at Chicago, 111., July 2$, igi2, in the
75th year of his age.

He married at Cheshire, Conn., December 23, 1866,
Leonora C, daughter of Dr. Robert Hamilton Paddock
(B.A. Yale 1837) and Cornelia A. (Brooks) Paddock,
and had four sons and two daughters, of whom one
daughter survives. Mrs. Robinson died in 1888. The
eldest son was for two years a member of the Class of
1890 in the Sheffield Scientific School.

1859

Green Clay, son of Brutus Junius Clay, member of
Congress from Kentucky in 1861, was born February u,
1839, near Paris, Ky. He was a grandson of General

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Green Clay, commander of the Kentucky militia in the
Revolutionary War and delegate to the Virginia Conven-
tion which ratified the Constitution of the United States.
His mother was Amelia (Field) Clay.

He joined the class at the beginning of Sophomore year
after study in Transylvania University. After graduation
he served as aid to Governor Magoffin of Kentucky with
the rank of colonel, but in October, 1859, he entered the
Harvard Law School, from which he received the degree
of Bachelor of Laws in 1861. The same year, after declin-
ing the same position at Madrid, he was appointed secre-
tary of the United States legation at St. Petersburg, where
his uncle, Cassius M. Clay (B.A. Yale 1832), was at that
time and for several years United States minister. After
a few months he returned bearing dispatches, and entered
the Union army as aid to General Thomas with the rank
of colonel. From April, 1862, until his resignation in 1868
he was again secretary of legation, stationed first at Turin,
and then at Florence.

After the Civil War he bought a large cotton plantation
in Mississippi, and was a member of the legislature of that
state. In 1873 ne went to Audrain County, Mo., and
bought property, and since 1880 had lived in Mexico in
that county, where he had a large stock farm. In 1891 he
was a member of the Missouri Senate, and in 1902 was
elected without opposition to the House to fill out the
unexpired term of his son, Rhodes Clay (Ph.B. Princeton
1895), who had died.

Colonel Clay died after an illness of two months from
a complication of ailments at his home in Mexico, Mo.,
October 31, 1912, in the 74th year of his age, and was
buried at Paris, Ky. He was a half-brother of Cassius M.
Clay (B.A. Yale 1866). He was a member of the
Protestant Episcopal Church.

He married, October 3, 1871, Janie, daughter of Rufus
N. Rhodes, commissioner of patents, and brigadier-general

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in the Confederate army, an attorney of New Orleans.
She survives him with a son and daughter.

Francis Henry Houston, son of Henry White
Houston, M.D. (Univ. Md. 1832) and Tryphena Mason
(Dixon) Houston, was born May 15, 1837, at East New
Market, Md. His father was one of the leading men of
the town, a trustee of the Methodist Church, and a school
trustee. In preparation for college he studied at Sherman's
Institute, near his home, and the Collegiate and Commer-
cial Institute of General William H. Russell (B.A. Yale
1833) in New Haven. He was a member of the Class
of 1858 during the first term of its Freshman year, and
the following autumn reentered with the Class of 1859.
He was greatly interested in music, and was a member of
the Tyrolea as a violinist.

After graduation he taught a department in the acad-
emy at Easton, Md., and at the same time began the study
of law in the office of J. C. W. Powell, Esq. In February,
i860, he resigned from the academy, and from October,
i860, to April, 1 86 1, edited The Social Journal, published
in the town. In June, 1861, he returned to his native
place, and became principal of the academy there. He
was admitted to the bar November 8, 1861, at Centre-
ville, Md. Early in 1863 he went to New York City, where
he engaged in private tutoring, and continued his law
studies in the office of Richard A. McCurdy (LL.B. Har-
vard 1856) in company with his classmate, Eugene Smith.
His experience in the courts gave him a distaste for the
law, and he abandoned the profession.

He soon joined the staff of the New York Mercantile
Library, and became first assistant librarian in February,
1866, and chief librarian in April, 1868. He resigned
in October, 1869, and was for a time correspondent for
George W. Child's Literary Gazette, but later returned
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In the autumn of 1873 he settled in Paterson, N. J.,
where he bought a house and became a real estate dealer,
but in August, 1876, he entered the wholesale department
of A. T. Stewart & Co. in New York City as commercial
statistician and remained until the wholesale business of
the house was closed in 1882.

He then utilized his literary and commercial experience
in general statistical and newspaper work in New York,
and was statistical editor of the Commercial Bulletin, New
York, on the editorial staff of the Journal of Commerce,
editor of the Journal of Fabrics, assistant editor of Textile
America, correspondent of the Boston Cotton and Wool
Reporter, the Chicago Commercial Bulletin, the Belfast
Linen Journal, and other papers.

In March, 1899, he suffered a paralytic stroke, but
about November was able to join his family in Belgium.
In October, 1901, he removed to Berlin, Germany. There
a succession of paralytic shocks followed until his death,
April 7, 1913. He was in the 76th year of his age.

He married in Baltimore, Md., December 16, 1871,
Matilda Hodson Thompson, daughter of John Thompson,
a large planter of Vienna, Md., and Mary (Payne) Thomp-
son. Mrs. Houston died in 1877. Their son (B.A. Colum-
bia 1895) is living, but the two daughters by this marriage
died in early childhood.

Mr. Houston married again in New York City, October
25, 1884, Elizabeth Lusby, daughter of Rev. James Liston
Houston and Adeline (Price) Houston of Wilmington,
Del. She died in Berlin in 1908, but their two daughters
are living.

i860

Eugene Lamb Richards, son of Timothy Pickering
Richards, a New York broker, and Agnes Treat (Lamb)
Richards, was born December 2y, 1838, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
On his mother's side he was descended from Anthony

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Lamb, a skillful optician and maker of mathematical instru-
ments, whose great-great-grandson was the second in
command under Benedict Arnold at West Point in the
Revolutionary War. He was also a descendant of Gov-
ernor Robert Treat of Connecticut. He was prepared for
college at Dr. Benjamin W. Dwight's High School in
Brooklyn.

During his Sophomore year his spine was seriously
injured in wrestling, and this injury was aggravated in
lifting a heavy boat. He was a member of the "Wenona"
boat club and in Senior year rowed on the University crew
in the race against Harvard. He had a philosophical ora-
tion stand at Junior Exhibition and only his injuries, which
kept him from recitations much of the time, prevented his
attaining the highest rank at graduation. For years he was
subject to recurrent attacks of partial paralysis with much
acute suffering and never entirely recovered.

For some time after graduation he acted as private
tutor, when his health permitted. In 1868 he was appointed
Tutor in Mathematics in the University, from 1871 to 1891
was Assistant Professor, and after that Professor of
Mathematics until 1906, when he became Professor
Emeritus.

Outside of the classroom his sympathetic suggestion and
advice were an inspiration to many students. He led the
way to a better understanding among intellectual men of
the place of athletics in education and their value to health
and morals, by a series of articles in the Popular Science
Monthly, and then devoted his attention to the development
of better facilities for the practice of sports at Yale. He
was for many years the chairman of the Yale Field Cor-
poration, from the time when the playing field was a rented
piece of ground in Hamilton Park. He lived long enough
to rejoice in the recent great extension of athletic facilities.
In 1888 he took up the matter of the construction of a new
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ings. By the aid of a committee of influential New York
alumni the building he had asked for was finished and
paid for in 1892. He "was appointed director, and held
the position until his resignation in 1901. This work in
addition to his classroom duties drew so much on his
reserve strength that the Corporation granted him a year
of needed rest in 1896-97, and another in 1902-03. In
1887 he received from Yale the honorary degree of Master
of Arts.

Professor Richards published "Plane and Spherical
Trigonometry with Applications" in 1878-79, and "Ele-
mentary Navigation and Nautical Astronomy" in 1902.
He wrote many articles for magazines, most of them being
published in the Popular Science Monthly. These include
two articles on "College Athletics," in February and
March, 1884; one on the "Influence of Exercise on
Health," June, 1886; on "College Athletics and Physical
Development," in April,* 1888; on "The Football Situa-
tion," in October, 1894; and on "The Physical Element
in Education," in August, 1895. The New England er
of July, 1883, contained his article on "Elementary Geom-
etry," the Educational Review of January, 1892, on "Old
and New Methods in Geometry," and the Century
Magazine of August, 1894, on "Walking as a Pastime."

For many years his home was at Woodbridge, Conn.
He was spending the summer, as usual, in the Adirondack
Mountains, but went to the home of his daughter at Beach
Haven, N. J., where he died after a long illness, August
5, 1 91 2, in the 74th year of his age. The burial was in
New Haven.

He married in New Haven, November 2y, 1861, Julia
L., daughter of Daniel and Jane (Greene) Bacon, who
survives him with their two sons (B.A. Yale 1885 and 1895,
respectively) and two daughters. The elder daughter mar-
ried Professor James Locke (B.A. Yale 1890), formerly
Instructor in the Sheffield Scientific School.

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It is purposed to place a tablet commemorating the ser-
vice of Professor Richards in planning and constructing
the gymnasium on the walls of that building.

1861

Samuel Arthur Bent, son of Samuel Watson and
Mary Narcissa (Barrett) Bent, was born July 1, 1841,
in Boston, Mass. His father was at the time a dry goods
merchant there, in 1849 went to California, where he
remained two years, and later settled in New Ipswich,
N. H., from which the son, after preparation at Phillips
(Andover) Academy, entered college.

After graduation he spent a year at home, then studied
law a year in the office of Paine & Smith in Boston, and
then at the Harvard Law School, from which he received
the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1865. He then made
a six months' tour in Europe, and upon his return in
December was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and practiced
his profession in Boston five years. In 1868 he was
elected for three years a member of the Boston school
committee. Near the close of 1870 he went abroad again,
and spent the winter of 1871-72 in Rome, following the
researches of the British Archaeological Society. The
following spring he became American editor of the Swiss
Times in Geneva, Switzerland, and as such was admitted
to the final session of the Court of Arbitration on the
Alabama Claims in that city. In June, 1873, he became
American editor of GaUgnani's Messenger in Paris, and
remained there a year and a half, going thence to study Ger-
man in a German family living on the Rhine, and returned
to Boston in September, 1875. Three years later he was
elected superintendent of schools in Nashua, N. H., and
after filling this position five years, he took a similar posi-
tion at Clinton, Mass. In 1886 he returned to Boston,
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line, Mass., he spent the remainder of his life. From 1888
to 1890 he was vice-president of the Orpheus Musical
Society of Boston.

In 1890 he was elected a director and later secretary and
treasurer of the Bostonian Society, which holds for the
city the old State House. These offices he resigned in
1899, but was then elected an honorary member of the
society. He prepared the Yearly Reports of its Proceed-
ings from 1 89 1 to 1899, and Catalogue of its Collections
in 1893. For several years he was a member of the exam-
ining committees of the Boston Public Library and the
Athenaeum. As historian of the Massachusetts Society of
the Sons of the American Revolution he compiled the Year
Books of the society in 1893 and 1894, and also compiled
the Year Books of the Massachusetts Society of Colonial
Wars for 1894, 1897, 1898, and 1899. He was secretary
of the Yale Alumni Association of Boston in 1870.

In 1882 he edited "Familiar Short Sayings of Great
Men," with data concerning their origin, authenticity, etc.,
which has passed through nine editions. He also edited
Longfellow's "Golden Legend," 1887, and Dickens's
"Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth," 1894.
He also wrote "Hints on Language in connection with
Light Reading and Writing; a manual for teachers," 1886,
and addresses and papers have been printed. He was
editor of the old Farmers Almanac from 1897 to 1900. In
191 1 he was elected a member of the Authors' Club.

While hurrying to a meeting of the Society of Colonial
Wars, Mr. Bent died suddenly from heart failure in
Young's Hotel in Boston, November 22, 1912, at the age
of 71 years. In both Nashua and Clinton he was a warden
of the Episcopal Church, and a delegate to diocesan
conventions.

He married, August 30, 1890, Mary Edna Thompson
of Bridgewater, Mass. She survives him with a son and
daughter.

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Mr. Bent's brother, Joseph Appleton, graduated from the
College in 1865, and died in 1869.

Anthony Higgins, son of Anthony Madison Higgins
(B.A. Washington and Jefferson 183 1) and Sarah Clark
(Corbit) Higgins, was born October 1, 1840, at Red Lion
Hundred, near St. George's, Del., on a large estate
acquired by his great-grandfather about 1740. He entered
Yale at the beginning of Sophomore year from Delaware
College.

After graduation he with George Gray (B.A. Princeton
1859), afterward his colleague in the United States Sen-
ate, studied law in the office of Judge William C. Spruance,
in New Castle, Del., and in the Harvard Law School, and
was admitted to the bar May 9, 1864. During that year
he and his classmate, Williams, served thirty days as
privates in the Seventh Delaware Regiment during a Con-
federate raid by General Early into Maryland. He then
practiced in Wilmington, Del., quickly becoming a leader
in the state bar and in the political life of the state. In
1867 he was active in the Border State Convention at
Baltimore to promote the adoption of the Fifteenth Amend-
ment to the Federal Constitution, and in 1868 was chairman
of the Republican state committee. Until 1870 he prac-
ticed his profession in partnership with the elder Judge
Edward G. Bradford, under the name of Bradford &
Higgins, and afterward was a. member of the firm of
Higgins & Churchman.

For several years after his admission to the bar he was
assistant to the Attorney-General of the Wilmington dis-
trict, and from 1869 to 1876 United States attorney for
the district of Delaware. In 1881 he was the Republican
nominee from Delaware for United States senator, and
in 1884 for member of Congress. From 1889 to 1895 he
was the first Republican member of the United States
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he was a member were those of interstate commerce, rela-
tions with Canada, and privileges and elections, and he
was chairman of the committees on manufactures and
to examine the branches of the civil service. He gained
earlier than is common a prominent place in the delibera-
tions of the Senate.

He was nominated for reelection to the Senate, but
after a long and bitter contest between the factions of
the Republican party resulting from the candidacy of
J. Edward Addicks, Mr. Higgins was defeated but no
one was elected, the seat remaining vacant for two years.
He was a member of the National Republican Conven-
tions of 1876, 1892, and 1896, and was chairman of the
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee in 1892.

He was a member of the National Congress of Rivers
and Harbors meeting annually in Washington, and of the
Atlantic Inland Waterways Conference organized in 1907,
at which he made an address that year on "The Chesapeake
and Delaware Canal, its History and Commerce."

Not only was he a brilliant and scholarly lawyer, but he
was a student of history, especially of the political history
of Great Britain and the United States, and was deeply
versed in the history and traditions of his own state. He
was a member of the Delaware Historical Society, which
published his paper on "The Inland Water Route to
Norfolk," and another, "A Historical Address at the Two
Hundredth Anniversary . of the Drawyers Presbyterian
Church of Odessa, Del." In 1900 he was elected a member
of the general council of the American Bar Association.
In 1908-09 he was president of the Yale Alumni Associa-
tion of Delaware. Yale University conferred upon him
the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in 1891.

Mr. Higgins died of heart disease, June 26, 1912, while
on a visit at the home of his brother, Thomas Higgins,
in New York City. He was in the 72d year of his age,
and unmarried. His brother, John Clark Higgins, was a

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trustee of Delaware College and United States consul at
Dundee, Scotland. A nephew, James C. Higgins, graduated
from Yale College in 1902.

James Woods McLane, son of Rev. James Woods
McLane, D.D. (B.A. Yale 1829) and Ann Huntington
(Richards) McLane, was born August 19, 1839, in New
York City, where his father was the first pastor of the
Madison Street Presbyterian Church. When he was five
or six years old his father was called to the pastorate of
the First Presbyterian Church in the section of Brooklyn
then called Williamsburg, and continued in that relation
until 1863. He was fitted for college at Phillips Academy,
Andover, Mass.

After graduation he took the course in the College of
Physicians and Surgeons (now included in Columbia Uni-
versity), and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine
there in 1864. During most of General McClellan's Penin-
sula Campaign in 1862 he was with the army as acting
assistant surgeon. From March, 1864, to August, 1865,
he was resident physician of the New York Hospital, and
then began private practice.

In March, 1867, he was appointed Lecturer on Materia
Medica in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the
same year attending physician at the New York Hospital,
and district physician to the New York Lying-in Asylum.
The following year he was promoted to the Professorship
of Materia Medica, Therapeutics being added to his chair
in 1869. Resigning this professorship in 1872, he was
appointed adjunct Professor of Obstetrics, the Diseases
of Women and Children, and Medical Jurisprudence,
became in 1879 Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases
of Children, from 1882 to 1885 Gynecology also being part
of his title, but the Diseases of Children being dropped
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President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, but
upon the consolidation of the College with Columbia Uni-
versity two years later he retired from the presidency and
became Dean of the Medical Faculty, retaining his pro-
fessorship until 1898, when after more than thirty years of
active service he was appointed Professor Emeritus. He
remained as Dean until 1903.

He was long associated with important hospitals, being
president of the Sloane Hospital, and of the Vanderbilt
Clinic from 1889 to 1903, trustee of the Good Samaritan
Dispensary, consulting physician to the New York Hos-
pital, the Sloane Maternity Hospital, the Nursery and
Child's Hospital, and the Northern Dispensary. He wrote
a "History of the Sloane Maternity Hospital" for the
American Journal of Obstetrics in 1891.

As President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons
and subsequently by election to fill a vacancy he was a
member of the board of trustees of Roosevelt Hospital
from 1889 to 1905, and since then has served as president
of the board. By his own devotion and constant gifts
and by his influence with friends he aided greatly in the
upbuilding of the hospital.

At the Pan-American Medical Congress in Washington
in 1893 he was honorary chairman of the section on obstet-
rics. During recent years he had lived a large part of
the time at New Canaan, Conn., and in 191 1 he was
appointed by Governor Baldwin a member of the Con-
necticut Industrial Commission, of which he was elected
chairman, and to which he devoted much attention.

Dr. McLane was a member of the New York Academy
of Medicine, the Medical and Surgical Society, and the
Physicians' Mutual Aid Society. In 1900 he was elected
vice president of the Union League Club.

Dr. McLane died at his home in New York City, Novem-
ber 25, 1912, at the age of 73 years. He was buried at
New London, Conn.

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He married in Boston, Mass., October 10, 1866, Adelaide
Lewis Richards of Roxbury, Mass., daughter of Henry
Augustus and Julia Ann (Haughton) Richards, and sister
of William H. Richards (B.A. Yale 1850), and had three
sons, of whom the eldest died in October, 1889, during his
Freshman year at Yale. The second son (B.A. Yale
1895) married a daughter of Rev. Professor Henry van
Dyke, D.D., LL.D. (B.A. Princeton 1873), and the young-
est son (B.A. Yale 1898) married a daughter of Rt. Rev.
David H. Greer, D.D., LL.D. (B.A. Washington College
1862). A brother, William L. McLane, graduated from
the College in 1869, and dying in 1903, left a bequest, from
which Haughton Hall was erected.

Nathaniel Schuyler Moore, son of Chauncey Watson
Moore, a dry-goods merchant in New York City, and
Clarissa (Worthington) Moore, was born there February
16, 1839. From his early childhood the family home was
in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he was fitted for college under
Professor W. B. Dwight (B.A. Yale 1854).

The first year after graduation he spent in historical
reading at Aquebogue, L. L, N. Y., the next year was
a student at Andover Theological Seminary, and the two
years following at Union Theological Seminary, where he
graduated in 1865. At the same time he was licensed to
preach by the Congregational Association of New York
and Brooklyn. He then spent an additional year at
Andover, and in the summer of 1867 visited Europe. He
was ordained to the ministry in Brooklyn, in the Church
of the Pilgrims, November 11, 1868. After preaching
at Port Penn, Del., six months, and Westford, N. Y., until
May, 1780, he began a four-year pastorate of the Con-
gregational Church at Gilmanton Iron Works, N. H. He
then supplied for short periods Congregational churches
in Norway, Me., WTestport, Mass., Clintonville, Wise,

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Hancock and Colebrook, N. H., and West Yarmouth, Mass.
In November, 1879, he accepted a call to Pawlet, Vt., and
from there in the summer of 1882 was called to Boylston
Centre, Mass. From 1883 to 1885 he supplied the church
at Raynham Centre, living during part of the time in
Taunton. He was then acting pastor at East Granville,
Mass., for a year and from 1886 to 1901 resided in
Winsted, Conn., preaching at Storrs, Conn., for about a
year and supplying other churches in Connecticut and
Massachusetts. From 1901 to 1904 he was pastor at
Crown Point, N. Y., the next year at Westfield and Troy,
Vt., then at Newfane, Vt. In November, 191 1, he took
charge of the church at North Pomf ret, Vt., where he died
of pneumonia February 2, 191 3, after a few days' illness.
He was in the 74th year of his age. A brother graduated
from Yale College in 1863.

Mr. Moore married, June 22, 1864, Mary M. Young of
Upper Aquebogue, L. I., by whom he had two sons (one
C.E. Cornell 1892) and a daughter. In 1877 he obtained
a divorce from her, and June 16, 1880, married in New
Britain, Conn., Botilda, daughter of Lars and Elna (Erik-
son) Pierson, who survives him with a son (Mn.B. Colo.
School of Mines 1907). In 1892 he and his family visited
Mrs. Moore's former home in southern Sweden, also the
fjords of Norway, the Scottish Highlands, Holland,
Belgium, and Germany.

While living in North Pomfret Mr. Moore read before
the Windham County Union Ministers' Meeting at Brattle-
boro, Vt., a paper on "What the Minister has to do with
Politics."

1862

Robert Fergusson Chapman was born July 24, 1841,
at La Plata, Charles County, Md. He entered college
as a resident of Port Tobacco, Md.

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After graduation he studied medicine in the College of
Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), New-
York City, and finished his course at the University of
Maryland, from which he received the degree of Doctor
of Medicine in 1865. In 1868 he went to Bellevue Hos-
pital, New York City, and remained there as an assistant
on the medical staff for nearly a year. Returning to Mary-
land he practiced there until 1874, and since then had
practiced continuously in New York City, residing in the
Harlem section.

Dr. Chapman died of pneumonia at his home in New
York City, November 12, 1912, at the age of 71 years.

He married in Baltimore, Md., Nannie L. Duvall. Mrs.
Chapman died in 1910, but their son, Dr. Robert Fendall
Chapman (B.S. Coll. City of N. Y. 1892), who was in
partnership with his father, continues his practice.

Charles Wright Ely, son of Elias Sanford and Hester
Maria (Wright) Ely, was born March 14, 1839, at Madison,
Conn. He was prepared for college at Lee Academy
there and at Guilford (Conn.) Institute.

While in college he joined writh others in regular military
drill, and a month after graduation enlisted for nine
months in the Twenty-seventh Regiment, Connecticut
Volunteers, taking part in the battle of Fredericksburg,
and serving as first sergeant until March 13, 1863, when he
was commissioned second lieutenant. He was ill with
typhoid fever for three months, and then being mustered
out of service went home to recuperate.

Owing to the persuasion of his classmate, Edward Col-
lins Stone, whose father, Rev. Collins Stone (B.A. Yale
1832), had just gone from Ohio to be at the head of the
American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Conn., he
decided to devote himself to the education of the deaf,
and in October, 1863, began teaching in the Ohio School
for the Deaf at Columbus, where his classmate was also

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teaching. After seven years of successful work there he
accepted the principalship of the recently opened Maryland
School for the Deaf at Frederick City. During his service
there of forty-two years he had under his care more than
six hundred boys and girls, who were warmly attached to
him, and with whom he always kept in friendly touch.

He was the author of "The Deaf and Dumb," 1880;
"History of the Maryland School for the Deaf," 1883;
and since 1881 had edited The Maryland Bulletin, a
bi-weekly paper published in the interest of the deaf.

When the Board of Health was organized in Frederick
City he was appointed chairman, and he was a director
of the Young Men's Christian Association, also a member
of the board of visitors of Frederick College. In June,
1906, he was appointed by the governor upon a commission
for improving the condition of the adult blind in the state.
Of this he was chosen chairman. For many years he was
an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and was a delegate
to the General Assembly.

In 1908 he received the honorary degree of L.H.D. from
Gallaudet College.

He attended the fiftieth reunion of his Class in New
Haven, in June, 191 2, went afterward to the convention
of the Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to
the Deaf, in Providence, and then spent his vacation on
the old farm at East River, near Madison, Conn., which
he had bought for a summer home. Soon after returning
to his work he went to Baltimore on business, and going
from there, spent the night with his son in Washington,
where he died suddenly of heart trouble the following
morning, October 1, 1912, at the age of 73 years.

He married, October 24, 1867, Mary Grace, daughter
of Solomon Russell and Elizabeth (Carey) Darling, of
Elyria, Ohio, but at the time a teacher in the Ohio School
for the Deaf. Two sons and two daughters, with Mrs.
Ely, survive him, one son having died in infancy. The

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elder son, Charles Russell Ely, Ph.D. (B.A. Yale 1891),
formerly Professor of Natural Science in Gallaudet Col-
lege, succeeds to his father's position at Frederick City.
The younger son, Richard Grenville Ely (B.A. Amherst
1906), received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale
in 1907.

Thomas Hubbard Pitkin, son of Rev. Thomas Clap
Pitkin, D.D. (B.A. Yale 1836) and Harriet L. (Starr)
Pitkin, was born March 30, 1842, in Louisville, Ky., where
his father was then rector of Christ Church. His grand-
father, Hon. Timothy Pitkin (B.A. Yale 1785), was the
son of Rev. Timothy Pitkin (B.A. Yale 1747), who was
the fourth Congregational pastor at Farmington, Conn.,
and a Fellow of the College from 1777 to 1804, and grand-
son of Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, one of the founders of
the College. His grandmother, Elizabeth (Hubbard) Pit-
kin, was the daughter of Rev. Bela Hubbard, D.D. (B.A.
Yale 1758), for many years at Trinity Church, New Haven.
In 1855 his father was chosen rector of St. Peter's Church,
Albany, N. Y., and in that city he was fitted for college.

He excelled in Greek and was one of the first scholars
of the Class. During the whole of Senior year he was
away from college, his father being on a journey to China
and Japan, and he did not receive his degree until 1863,
but was then enrolled with his Class.

After graduation he spent a year reading law, and was
for a time in Utica, and then in Buffalo, N. Y., where his
father was at St. Paul's Church. He was then in Europe
three years, and since his return had lived in Detroit.
During nearly the whole time since leaving college he had
been a teacher, at first in school, but since going to Detroit
giving private instruction only. He fitted many boys for
Yale, the University of Michigan, and other institutions.
Since 1888 he had been chairman of the library committee
of the Detroit Club.

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Failing health led him to discontinue teaching a year
or more before his death, which occurred January 14,
1913, in the 71st year of his age. He was unmarried.

His father was rector of St. Paul's Church, Detroit,
from 1867 to 1879, and died there in 1887.

1863

Leander Trowbridge Chamberlain, seventh son and
youngest of the children of Eli and Achsah (Forbes)
Chamberlain, was born September 26, 1837, at West Brook-
field, Mass. He earned his own way through Phillips
Academy, Andover, Mass., where he stood at the head of
his class.

While in college, though self-supporting, he won decla-
mation and debating prizes, was one of the cochlaureati,
was a member of the Glee Club, received the DeForest
Gold Medal, and was Valedictorian of his class.

Through his friendship with Admiral Andrew H. Foote,
shortly before graduation he was appointed assistant pay-
master in the United States Navy, and immediately after
Commencement was assigned to the Fredonia, then at
Callao, on the Peruvian coast, as acting assistant pay-
master. Later he was made naval storekeeper and judge
advocate of the Pacific squadron. At the end of two
years he had saved enough money to pay all his indebted-
ness for his education and to begin his professional studies,
but the one trusted to exchange the gold coin in New
York spent it all, so that Mr. Chamberlain found it neces-
sary to continue in naval service a year and a half longer.

In the spring of 1867 he began the study of Hebrew,
and with the help of a month's instruction from his class-
mate, Professor William G. Sumner, who had just returned
from Gottingen and Oxford, and two months' further
study, he was able to enter the Middle year in Andover
Theological Seminary. On his graduation in 1869 he

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began his pastorate of the New England Congregational
Church in Chicago, and was ordained October 27. In
1871 the great fire destroyed the church building, chapel,
mission chapel, and every home of the congregation. Dur-
ing the following winter he was superintendent of relief
for the burned district. After remaining with the church
until it was fairly reestablished, he became pastor of the
Broadway Congregational Church in Norwich, Conn., in
1876. While there, in 1879, he received the degree of
Doctor of Divinity from the University of Vermont. After
seven years in Norwich he accepted a call to the Classon
Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.

He was a corporate member of the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the first secretary
in the United States of the McAll Mission in France, and
one of the organizers of the American McAll Association.
In 1880 he was a delegate to the centennial of Sunday
Schools in London, and in 1888 was a delegate to the
Pan-Presbyterian Council in London.

At the end of seven years of service in Brooklyn, he
resigned his pastorate and afterward, residing in New
York City, gave his time to various causes. He was presi-
dent of the Evangelical Alliance of the United States and
was a delegate from this country to a general conference
of Evangelical Alliances in Florence in 1891. He was
secretary and treasurer of the American and Foreign
Christian Union, president of the Philafrican League,
president of the Thessalonica Agricultural and Industrial
Institute in Macedonia, a director of the New York
Federation of Churches, and member of the executive
committee of the New York Civil Service Reform Asso-
ciation. He was also an officer or member of many other
organizations and societies.

In 1896 he aided in organizing and carrying through the
Washington Arbitration Conference, which considered the
adoption of a system of arbitration between this country

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and Great Britain. In 1899 he organized and was a
director of the National Armenia movement in aid of
the famine sufferers in India and India Relief Association.

He was the author of many volumes, including a "His-
tory of the Bible," 1881 ; "A Citizen's Manual," 1896;
"The State," 1898; "The Colonial Policy of the United
States," 1899; "Patriotism and the Moral Law," 1900;
"The Evolutionary Philosophy," 1902; "Government not
Founded in Force," and "The Suffrage and Majority
Rule," 1904.

Dr. Chamberlain died at Pasadena, Cal., May 9, 1913,
in the 76th year of his age. His funeral was at the Brick
Presbyterian Church, New York City, and burial in
Philadelphia.

He married, December 30, 1890, Frances, only daughter
of Isaac Lea, LL.D., and Frances (Carey) Lea of Phila-
delphia. She died in 1894, and in her honor and that
of her father he gathered an extensive and typical collec-
tion of gems for the National Museum in Washington, and
a collection of over fifty thousand specimens of American
Eocene fossil shells for the Philadelphia Academy of
Natural Sciences.

One of his brothers, Governor Daniel H. Chamberlain,
graduated from Yale College in 1862, and another brother,
Joshua M., for thirty-five years an official of Iowa (now
Grinnell) College, graduated from Dartmouth College in
1855.

Willabe Haskell, son of William and Lydia (Stock-
bridge) Haskell, was born in Freeport, Me., December 19,
1838. His early life he spent chiefly in West Harrington,
now Millbridge, Me., and was prepared for college at the
East Maine Conference Seminary, at Bucksport.

After graduating from College as Salutatorian, he taught
a short time in Bacon Academy, Colchester, Conn., and then
studied in New Haven. In 1864 he returned to Bucksport,

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Me., where he taught Latin and Greek in the East Maine
Conference Seminary for ten years, and was editorially
connected with the Riverside Echo, a Portland (Me.)
weekly newspaper. Coming back to New Haven in 1874
he became a student of Oriental languages in the Grad-
uate School under Professor Whitney, and in 1876 received
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Meanwhile he taught
for a time in the Hopkins Grammar School. He wrote a
few papers for the American Oriental Society, on topics
connected with the Rig and Atharva Vedas, and several
articles in 1900 for "The People's Bible Encyclopedia."

In the autumn of 1875 he was appointed Curator of the
College Reading Room, and continued in the position thirty
years, being the kindly helper of many college generations.
In 1905 he was retired by the University from active ser-
vice, but still gave part of his time to the work to the end of
his life.

Dr. Haskell was also a local Methodist preacher, and
very helpful in the annual Plainville (Conn.) Camp Meet-
ing, and its Chautauqua work. He was a member of the
official board of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, and
for many years was one of the leaders of an adult Bible
class there, whose members prized his thorough knowledge
of the Scriptures and broad scholarship.

He died May 6, 191 3, after an illness of two weeks in
the New Haven Hospital. He was in the 75th year of
his age.

He married, August 17, 1870, Lauriette Cornelia, daugh-
ter of Moses and Harriet (Parker) Stone of Jay, Me. She
survives him with their two daughters, one of whom
married Arthur H. Kinney (B.A. Yale 1902).

George Keyes Tufts, son of Danforth Keyes Tufts,
a farmer of New Braintree, Mass., and Hannah (Mathews)
Tufts, was born October 17, 1841. His great-grandfather,

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Colonel Danforth Keyes, served in the French and Indian
and Revolutionary Wars. His father died when he was
eleven years old.

His college preparation was obtained at a private school
four miles from home, to and from which he walked
daily, later at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.,
and after a year of illness, at the High School in Wor-
cester, Mass. He was admitted to Amherst College, but
was drawn to Yale by his classmates in school.

On account of ill health he left college the first term
of Junior year, after receiving his Oration Appointment
for Junior Exhibition, and returned for a short time in
the Class of 1864, but in 1898 received the degree of
Master of Arts with enrollment in 1863.

He taught for a time, and then went into business in
New Braintree, conducting his own grocery store for nearly
thirty-four years, until July, 1900. He was a director and
secretary of the New Braintree Cheese Co. for twenty
years.

He was actively interested in all local matters, was town
clerk, member, and most of the time chairman of the New
Braintree school committee forty years, postmaster thirty-
five years, selectman ten years, state representative in
1884 and 1890, state senator in 1902 and 1903, and library
trustee. He was for many years chairman of the Repub-
lican town committee.

Long a deacon and clerk of the New Braintree Con-
gregational Church, he was also director of the choir,
chairman of the building committee of the new church,
and one of the three donors of the organ. During the last
twelve years he had lived much of the time in Worcester,
where he was president of the Men's Union of the First
(Old South) Congregational Church.

He was president of the Quaboag Historical Society,
and vice-president of its committee having charge of the
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration of the

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founding of Brookfield and the publication of the official
account of the same. He also gave the historical address
at the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his native
town, and had prepared two histories of the town, one
of which is included in the History of Worcester County
published by J. W. Lewis & Co. of Philadelphia.

Mr. Tufts died suddenly of apoplexy at his home in
Worcester, in the early morning of February II, 1913.
He was apparently recovering from an attack of the grip,
and the previous evening had been busy with his daughter
preparing his annual report as town clerk. He was 71
years of age. The burial was in New Braintree.

He married, June 10, 1885, Annie Maria, daughter of
Josiah and Sophina (Ingalls) Bush, of New Braintree.
She survives him with their only daughter (B.A. Wellesley
1909). Mr. Tufts was a cousin of Rev. James Tufts (B.A.
Yale 1838).

Edward Lyman Washburn, son of Edmund Washburn,
a shoe manufacturer, and Harriet (Kimball) Washburn,
was born May 12, 1839, at Natick, Mass., and was pre-
pared for college in the high school there.

After graduation he opened an office for the medical
application of electricity, and at the same time studied
in the Yale Medical School, receiving the degree of
Doctor of Medicine in 1865. After practicing medicine
a short time he went into the drug business with Dr.
Rollin McNeil (M.D. Yale 1862) and Dr. John W. Barker
(M.D. Yale i860) in Cherry (now Wooster) Street, New
Haven. Dr. Barker soon retired and the firm of McNeil
& Washburn removed to Center Street, and then to Church
Street, Dr. McNeil retiring about 1878. Since then Dr.
Washburn had conducted a large business in the manufac-
ture and sale of physicians' and dentists' supplies, trusses,
mathematical instruments, and other specialties, and had
also practiced his profession. In October, 1912, he bought

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out his partner, the business being continued under the
same name of E. L. Washburn & Co.

Dr. Washburn died of arterio-sclerosis at his home in
New Haven, February 10, 1913, in the 74th year of his
age. From very early life he had suffered from paralysis
of the lower limbs.

He married at Elizabeth, N. J., January 29, 1865, Amelia
Beanda, daughter of Theophilus and Julia (Hall) Heness
of that city. She survives him with one of their five sons
(LL.B. Yale 1906) and a daughter, who is the wife of
Professor Ralph A. McDonnell, M.D. (B.A. Yale 1890)
of the Medical School.

1864

Edward Augustus Anketell, son of John and Abigail
Augusta (Mills) Anketell, was born on the present site
of the Yale Law School in New Haven, October 20, 1840.
His mother's father, Hon. Isaac Mills (B.A. Yale 1786),
was judge of the county and probate courts of New Haven
and a public-spirited citizen through whose efforts princi-
pally the present Center Church edifice was erected, and
was practically the founder of Sandusky, Ohio. Judge
Mills was a grandson of Rev. Jedediah Mills (B.A. Yale
1722), long pastor in Ripton, now Huntington, Conn. Mr.
Anketell was fitted for college at the Hopkins Grammar
School, New Haven.

After graduation he entered the Yale Law School,
received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1866, and con-
tinued his legal studies the ensuing six months, most of
the time in the Law School. In December, 1867, he entered
the office of Arthur D. Osborne (B.A. Yale 1848), clerk
of courts. He was admitted to the bar May 14, 1869,
and July 1 following was appointed assistant clerk of the
Supreme and Superior courts. In March, 1889, he was
promoted to the clerkship of the same courts, in which

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he continued until his retirement from active work in
1907. He was also assistant clerk of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas from November, 1869, and clerk of the same
from September, 1872.

Until his removal from his old home in Elm Street his
study was always the Class headquarters at reunions.

Mr. Anketell's health had been gradually failing, and
he died at his home of paralysis February 5, 19 13, at the
age of 72 years.

He married at Branford, Conn., July 12, 1871, Elizabeth
Rogers Plant, daughter of John and Angelina (Beach)
Plant, who died November 22, 1896. Their eldest son
died, but two sons and a daughter are living. October 11,
1899, he married Miss Ella O'Neil, who survives him. A
brother graduated from the College in 1855, and died in
I905-

Charles Alldis Siller, son of Jonathan and Abigail
Maxcy (Allen) Hiller, was born September 19, 1844, in
New Haven, Conn. He was fitted for college at the Hop-
kins Grammar School, and was a member of the class
of 1863 until the first term of Senior year. After some
months at home he joined the class of 1864 at the
beginning of its Senior year.

After graduation he was at home until April, 1866,
except while taking a course in the Eastman National
Business College in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and then settled
near Salina, Kans. In April, 1867, he was appointed
district clerk for Ottawa County in that state and from
September, 1867, to January, 1869, was deputy clerk of
court and register of deeds in Saline County. He was
admitted to the bar October 20, 1869, and was for a time
a member of the law firm of Lowe, Mohler & Hiller, in
Salina. In May, 1872, he was admitted to the bar of the
Supreme Court of Kansas. Ten years later he became
city attorney of Salina, and held the office three years.

414 YALE COLLEGE

He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the
United States January 10, 1883. In 1891 he was attorney
of the National Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Salina. He
was also a member of the local board of education. His
mother died in 1905, and for some years before and after
that he was in New Haven much of the time.

Mr. Hiller died of chronic bronchitis at Grace Hospital,
New Haven, April 19, 1913, in the 69th year of his age.

He married at Salina, June 13, 1877, Marguerite Chris-
tine, eldest daughter of Joseph M. Blodgett, who survives
him with two sons. A brother received the degree of
Master of Arts from Yale in 1893, and of Bachelor of
Laws in 1897. His sister married Charles A. Edwards
(B.A. Yale 1866).

Henry Elijah Owen, son of Elijah Hunter and
Susanna (Boardman) Owen, was born May 28, 1843, m
Hartford, Conn. He was prepared for college at the
High School there.

After graduation he entered the College of Physicians
and Surgeons (Columbia University), and received the
degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1867, after which he made
a short trip to Europe with his classmate, Matthew C. D.
Borden. He then served nearly two years as surgical
interne in Bellevue Hospital. In 1 871 he began medical
practice, and was specialist on chest diseases for the out-
patients at Bellevue Hospital and the Northwestern Dis-
pensary, and on children's diseases in the Northern Dispen-
sary. He retired from practice in 1884. He had made
several trips abroad.

Dr. Owen died suddenly of heart disease at his home in
New York City, October 12, 1912, at the age of 69 years.

He married in New York City, January 22, 1870, Sophia
L., daughter of Lawson and Marietta (Thorpe) Ives, of
Hartford, Conn., and had four daughters and a son. Three
of the daughters and the son, with Mrs. Owen, survive him.

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One brother graduated from the College in i860, and
another in 1872.

Ralph Wheeler, son of Hiram W. and Mary B.
Wheeler, was born May 14, 1843, at Stonington, Conn.
While at home on his father's farm he was prepared for
college by Dr. David S. Hart (M.D. Yale 1823).

The year after graduation he was principal of an acad-
emy at Ewington, Ohio, and the following year studied
law with Hiram Appleton, Esq., in Mystic, Conn. He was
admitted to the bar in April, 1867, and practiced in New
London, where he was corporation counsel several years,
was appointed state's attorney of New London County in
1883, and in 1893 Judge of the Superior Court of Con-
necticut for a term of eight years. To this last office he
had been twice reappointed, and was the oldest in years
and service on that bench.

In 1868 he was elected a member of the New London
Board of Education, and was its secretary for fourteen
years, and in 1869 was a member of the Common Council
of the city. He was a member of the Democratic state
central committee four years, state senator in 1874, and
mayor of New London from 1891 to 1893.

While holding a session of the superior court in Bridge-
port, Judge Wheeler was taken with the grip, which was
followed by prolonged prostration, and he died at his
home in New London, February 14, 191 3, in the 70th
year of his age.

He married in New London, February 28, 1884, Mrs.
Helen M. (Stevens) Graves, who survives him. They had
no children. A brother, Judge Silas B. Wheeler of Ston-
ington, and a sister are also living.

Henry Raynor Wood, son of Julius J. and Charlotte
(Brown) Wood, was born July 17, 1840, in Syracuse,

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N. Y. He was prepared for college at the Columbus
(Ohio) High School, and was a member of the class of
1863 until Sophomore year. At the beginning of the
following year he joined the class of 1864.

After graduation he engaged with his father in the
manufacture of starch on a large scale in Columbus, where
he was secretary and treasurer of the Julius J. Wood
Starch Co. Since 1890 he had resided in Englewood, N. J.,
and was vice president of the National Starch Manufactur-
ing Co. in New York City until about 1899, when he retired
from active work, though he continued to maintain an
office in the city. He was a director of the Citizens
National Bank of Englewood. He was at one time
vestryman of St. Paul's Church there.

Mr. Wood died suddenly of heart disease at his home
in Englewood, April 8, 1913, in the 73d year of his age.

He married at Columbus, Ohio, February 11, 1869,
Annie, daughter of Francis and Margaret (Reed) Carter,
and had a son (B.S. Ohio State Univ. 1891 ; M.D. Colum-
bia 1894), now a professor in Columbia University, and
two daughters, who with Mrs. Wood survive him.

1865

John Edward Brooks, son of John and Ann Eliza
(Moseman) Brooks, was born May 6, 1844, at Rye,
Westchester County, N. Y.

In the autumn following graduation he entered the
Columbia Law School, and received the degree of Bache-
lor of Laws in 1867, and also won the Municipal Law prize.
He was in the office of (Albon P.) Man & (John E.)
Parsons in New York City two years, and in the autumn
of 1869 formed a partnership with his classmate, Payson
Merrill, under the name of Brooks & Merrill. In 1873
Mr. Brooks withdrew from the law, and soon became a
partner in the long-established clothing firm of Brooks

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Brothers, in which he continued until his retirement from
active business in 1896. Two brothers (B.A. Yale 1877
and 1880, respectively) had meantime entered the firm.

Since his retirement, although retaining his American
citizenship, Mr. Brooks had lived most of the time in
London, with frequent travel on the Continent. He was
much interested in yachting, and had crossed the ocean
in his own yacht.

Mr. Brooks died at his home in London, February 20,
191 3, in the 69th year of his age. He was not married.

Charles Robert Forrest, son of George James Forrest
of New York and Sarah Ann (Hooks) Forrest, was born
January 28, 1843, i*1 New Orleans, La. After study in
South Norwalk, Conn., and at Phillips (Andover) Acad-
emy he entered college from New York City.

After graduation he was in the grain commission busi-
ness three months, then clerk with the New York banking
firms of Lees & Waller and Tanner & Co. for about a year
and a half each, but in 1869 on account of failing health
he bought a small farm at Hyde Park, N. Y., to which
he moved in June, 1870. Since 1879 ne nacl lived in
Hartford, Conn., where he was a director of the American
Type Founders' Co. and other corporations, and vice-
president of the Connecticut Valley Lumber Co. of
Holyoke, Mass.

Mr. Forrest died of apoplexy at his home in Hartford,
October 7, 1912, in the 70th year of his age.

He married at Thompson, Conn., October 15, 1868,
Harriet Tisdale Chandler, daughter of William Henry
Chandler (B.A. Yale 1839) and Martha Helen (Allen)
Chandler. She survives him with one son (Ph.B. Yale
1891) and four of their five daughters. A brother, Molton
Hooks Forrest, M.D. (B.A. Rutgers 1868), was a member
of the Freshman class in Yale in 1864-65.

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1866

Lewis Lowe Abbott, son of Albert and Abigail Hale
(Cutler) Abbott, was born February 21, 1845, at Andover,
Mass. He joined the Class from Dartmouth College at
the beginning of Sophomore year.

After graduation he was bookkeeper and cashier for
Hall, Kimball & Co., hardware merchants in Chicago,
until about 1871, when he became a member of the firm of
Clarke, Abbott & Co., dealing in railroad and machinists'
supplies. In January, 1876, he entered the firm of Dicker-
son & Co., metal merchants, and for twenty-one years was
resident partner for England, with headquarters at Liver-
pool. For many years he was an elder of the Sefton Park
Presbyterian Church of Rev. John Watson (D.D. Yale
1897), "Ian Maclaren," and was head of one of the large
Sunday schools of that city. He returned to this country
in 1897 to live in New York City, and was a member of
the firm of Dickerson, Van Dusen & Co. He was a
member of the West End Collegiate Reformed Church.

Air. Abbott died after an operation at the Roosevelt
Hospital, New York City, May 25, 1913, at the age of
68 years.

He married, October 18, 1871, Grace, daughter of Samuel
B. and Sarah Grace (Dickerson) Van Dusen of New York
City, and had seven sons and one daughter, of whom three
sons and the daughter survive. Mrs. Abbott died October
8, 1912. One son (M.A. Exeter Coll., Oxford Univ.)
died in 1902 and another (B.A. Columbia 1903) is in his
father's firm.

Harrison Downs, son of Joshua and Laura (Terry)
Downs, was born September 1, 1843, at Northville, N. Y.
He entered college at the beginning of Sophomore year
after preparation at home.

After graduation he taught school at East Hampton
(L. I.), N. Y., Norwalk, Conn., and in New York City,

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where he also took the course in the Columbia Law School,
and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1871. For
four or five years he practiced his profession there, making
a specialty of patent law. Before 1876 he left New York
City, and engaged in private tutoring until 1896. A few
months before his death he went to live with a brother at
Riverhead (L. L), N. Y.

He died from a general physical and mental breakdown
at the Central Islip State Hospital (L. L), N. Y., August
14, 1912, in the 69th year of his age. He was never
married.

Charles McClellan Southgate, son of Rev. Robert
Southgate (B.A. Bowdoin 1826) and Mary F. (Swan)
Southgate, was born November 18, 1845, at Monroe, Mich.
He was fitted for college at Phillips (Andover) Academy,
and came to New Haven from Ipswich, Mass., where his
father was pastor of the First Church from 185 1 to 1868.

After graduation he was principal of the High School
at Woodstock, Vt, a year, and then entered Andover
Theological Seminary, finishing his course there in 1870.
December 15 of that year he was ordamed pastor of the
North Congregational Church at St. Johnsbury, Vt. This
charge he resigned in 1874 on account of the health of his
family, and spent the winter in Atlanta, Ga., as acting
pastor of the First Congregational Church, and lecturer
in Atlanta University. From November, 1875, to Novem-
ber, 1884, he was pastor of the First Congregational
Church at Dedham, Mass., then until 1895 the first pastor
of Pilgrim Church, Worcester, Mass., where he built a
church, and the following ten years pastor of the Congre-
gational Church at Auburndale, Mass. Since March 1,
1906, he had been superintendent of the Massachusetts
Bible Society, with his office in Boston.

He had been a trustee of Hartford Theological Seminary
since 1894, director of the Congregational Sunday School

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and Publishing Society since 1896, and a member of the
headquarters committee of the Massachusetts Anti-Saloon
League since 1905.

Mr. Southgate died suddenly of heart failure at his
summer home at Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass., June 5,
1912, at the age of 66 years.

He married at Woodstock, Vt., November 30, 1870,
Elizabeth Virginia Anderson, and had a son (B.S. Wore.
Polyt. Inst. 1892) and two daughters, who survive him.

1867

James Monroe Allen, son of John and Lavina (Teel)
Allen, was born at Bethlehem, Ohio, March 14, 1844. He
was fitted for college at the Chicago (111.) High School.

After graduation he was at Aurora, 111., until January,
1870, when he removed to Chicago. There he studied law
and was admitted to the bar. After traveling in Texas
and Arkansas he began law practice at Carthage, Mo.,
remaining until December, 1874. He then removed to
San Francisco, Cal., where he had since practiced his pro-
fession. From January, 1880, to 1883, he was one of
the judges of the Superior Court of that state. After his
retirement from the judgeship he formed a law partner-
ship with William F. Herrin (later vice-president of the
Southern Pacific Railway) and his classmate, Hon. Francis
G. Newlands. This partnership was dissolved in 1888, and
since then he had been attorney of the Bank of California.

Judge Allen died after an illness of several years from
cancer of the liver at his home in San Francisco, May 6,
1913, at the age of 69 years.

He married at San Jose, Cal., December 29, 1881, Ida
Marie Davis. She survives him with two sons and two
daughters, one daughter having died.

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Frank Henry Hathorn, son of Hon. Henry Harrison
Hathorn, builder and proprietor of Congress Hall Hotel,
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and a member of Congress of
the United States for two terms during the administration
of President Grant, was born June 9, 1847, at Saratoga
Springs. His mother was Emily Harriet (Moriarity)
Hathorn. He was prepared for college at Phillips Acad-
emy, Andover, Mass.

After graduation he was for seven years clerk in Con-
gress Hall, and in 1872 purchased a half interest in the
Hathorn Spring, which had been discovered in excavating
for an addition to the Hall in 1868. By skillful advertis-
ing combined with travel he developed a wide foreign
demand for the water. He made a thorough study of
mineral waters, and his knowledge was of great value to
the village, and later to the State Reservation committee.
In order to stop the injury to the natural-flowing springs
of the Saratoga basin from the companies pumping car-
bonic acid gas for commercial uses, he started the litigation
which after years of untiring effort and wise cooperation
of the village committee restored the springs, and resulted
in 1909 in the establishment of a state reservation. In
1887 he succeeded to his father's business, and in 1912 he
bought the Grand Union Hotel, thus saving it from being
torn down.

He was supervisor of the town in 1898, also a director
of the First National Bank, and a trustee of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.

Mr. Hathorn died after a year of ill health of a complica-
tion of diseases at his home in Saratoga Springs, March
25, 1913, in the 66th year of his age.

He married, October 28, 1884, Achsah Kate Fonda of
Louisville, Ky., and had one daughter, who survives him.
Mrs. Hathorn is deceased, but his mother, a brother and
sister are living.

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Homer Weston, son of Joseph and Marianna (Savage)
Weston, was born October 4, 1841, at Wethersfield, Vt.
He was fitted for college at Springfield, Vt., and took half
of his college course at Wesleyan University, joining his
Class at Yale at the beginning of the second term of
Junior year.

After graduation he studied in the Albany Law School
and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws there in
1868 and was admitted to the Albany Bar, but the next
year was principal of the La Crosse Valley (Wise.) Sem-
inary, and from 1869 to 1874 engaged in farming at Ascut-
neyville, Vt. In 1875 ne removed to Syracuse, N. Y., where
he had since practiced law, at first in partnership with his
brother-in-law, J. Neal Perkins (B.A. Wesleyan 1865),
and then by himself. Since the graduation of his son
from the Albany Law School in 1898, he and his son had
practiced together.

Mr. Weston died of hardening of the arteries at his
home in Syracuse, September 17, 1912, in the 71st year
of his age.

He married at St. Johnsbury, Vt., May 15, 1868, Emma
A., daughter of Isaac and Gratia (Fletcher) Shaw Har-
rington, and had a son and two daughters, all of whom
have been students in Syracuse University. The elder
daughter received from there the degree of Bachelor of
Music in 1892.

1868

George Henry Lewis, son of George and Lucy Peche
(Gager) Lewis, was born September 6, 1842, in New
Britain, Conn. He was left an orphan at an early age.

In the summer of 1862 he left Wllliston Seminary, East-
hampton, Mass., and enlisted in Company F, Fourteenth
Connecticut Volunteers. The regiment was ordered to

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Washington in August, and suffered severely at the battle
of Antietam, September 17, and he was wounded in the
shoulder. After three months in hospitals he rejoined
his regiment, and a week later, December 13, was in the
battle of Fredericksburg, where he received a severe
wound; from which he never fully recovered. In October,
1863, he was discharged, and after finishing his preparation
at Williston Seminary, entered college.

After graduation he taught a year in Branford, Conn.,
and two years in Iowa (now Grinnell) College. In July,
1871, he resigned the latter position, and removed to Des
Moines, la., where he had since resided. He engaged in
the practice of law and was dean of the Law Department
of Drake University from its organization in 1875 until
1886. He then resigned and devoted himself to business
as president and manager of the Lewis Investment Co.,
dealing in real estate loans and municipal bonds. He was
one of the organizers of the Commercial Club, and several
times its president. Since 1871 he had been a devoted and
active member of Plymouth Congregational Church.

Mr. Lewis made a special study of railroad problems,
and published in 1893, "National Consolidation of the
Railways of the United States," and several articles on
railway subjects, which first appeared in 1891 and 1892 in
the Chicago Railway Review.

He received the degree of Master of Arts in course
from Yale and also from Grinnell in 1871.

Mr. Lewis died of cardiac asthma at Des Moines, March
16, 1913, at the age of 70 years.

He married at Sherburne, N. Y., August 27, 1869,
Elmina Elizabeth Buell, and had a son and two daughters.
She died in May, 1896, and he married at Des Moines,
December 5, 1898, Emma Estina, daughter of Alexander
W. and Martha (Reasoner) Lorimor, who survives him,
with twin daughters and the three children by his first
marriage.

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Thomas Hanse Williams, son of William and Annice
(Tooke) Williams, was born April 4, 1845, near Salis-
bury, Md. He was prepared for college at the Salisbury
Academy, and joined the Class at the beginning of
Sophomore year.

After graduation he was in charge of the Laurel (Del.)
Classical Institute until the summer of 1871. He was then
called to the Salisbury (Md.) Academy, when it was con-
verted into a county High School, and in 1872 became
principal. He was there until 1880, when he resigned for
rest and to devote his attention to fruit growing on his
farm near Salisbury. Six years later he was persuaded
to resume the principalship of the High School, which he
continued to supervise until 1896, when he became chief
clerk in the state comptroller's office. From 1898 to 1902
he was superintendent of public schools of Wicomico
County. He was one of the charter members of the
Salisbury Building, Loan and Banking Association, of
which he was a director, and during the last five or six
years secretary.

He was for several years a member of the Salisbury
city council, and part of the time its clerk, also a member
of the city charter commission after the fire of 1886. He
was steward, trustee, and treasurer of the Methodist
Church, and a lay steward of the Wilmington Methodist
conference.

Mr. Williams died suddenly in his carriage near
his farm at Salisbury, August 29, 1912, at the age of 6j
years.

He married at Vienna, Md., September 23, 1873, Eliza-
beth, daughter of Dr. Edward F. and Mary A. (Craft)
Smithers. She survives him. They had no children.

1869

Charles Aurelius Hull, son of Aurelius Bevil and
Sarah (Tucker) Hull, was born May 26, 1848, in Brook-

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lyn, N. Y. He was fitted for college in that city under
John Abbot French, and joined the Class in the second
term of Freshman year.

In October, 1869, he was appointed secretary and treas-
urer of the Allen Engine Works in New York City. From
these positions he resigned in February, 1871 and the fol-
lowing October went into the office of the Continental
Insurance Co. In February, 1876, he left that company
to become secretary of the Howard Fire Insurance Co.,
of which he was also elected vice president eight years
later. Withdrawing from that company in 1892 he was
thereafter vice president of the Sanborn Map & Publish-
ing Co. He subsequently returned to fire insurance as
vice-president and secretary of the New York Fire Insur-
ance Co., becoming its president in 1904. On the organiza-
tion of the New Amsterdam Fire Insurance Co., he was
its president, and when this company and the Empire City
Fire Insurance Co. were merged about 1910, he was presi-
dent of the combined organization. Upon the consolidation
of this with the Williamsburg City Fire Insurance Co. he
became chairman of the directors. He was also a director
in the Brooklyn Savings Bank, North River Insurance Co.,
Nassau and Dutchess Fire Insurance Co., Morris Aqueduct,
Morristown Safe Deposit Co., White, Potter & Page Manu-
facturing Co., and Central Fire Works Co.

He was deeply interested in religious, charitable, and
philanthropic work, to all of which he gave much personal
service and liberal gifts. He was president of the Con-
gregational Club of Brooklyn, long a trustee and deacon
of the Church of the Pilgrims and superintendent of its
Sunday School, a member of the committee of the Men
and Religion Forward Movement, treasurer of the Congre-
gational Apportionment Commission, and a director of the
Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association.

He was a member of the Brooklyn Board of Education,
was on the board of managers of the Brooklyn Hospital,

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president of the board of trustees of Fisk University, and
since 1908 a trustee of Mt. Holyoke College, one of the
managers of the American Bible Society, also for twenty
years a corporate member of the American Board of Com-
missioners for Foreign Missions and chairman of its
cooperating committee in New York, and from 1879 t0
1884 and again from 1888 to the close of his life a member
of the executive committee of the American Missionary
Association, being chairman since 1898.

Mr. Hull died after a fortnight's illness at his home in
Brooklyn, February 14, 1913, in the 65th year of his age.
He was buried in Morristown, N. J.

He married in Brooklyn, November 8, 1870, Elizabeth
Amelia, daughter of Enoch Crandall and Lucy Jane
Stanton. She died in 1889, and their two daughters are
also deceased. June 10, 1891, Mr. Hull married Katherine
Louise Stanton, sister of his first wife, who survives him.

1870

Francis Norton Mann, son of Hon. Francis Norton
Mann (B.A. Union 1825), mayor of Troy, N. Y., from
1847 t0 J849, and judge of the Court of Common Pleas,
and Mary Jane (Hooker) Mann, was born August 2,
1849, m Troy. He was prepared for college at the Troy
Academy and the Mount Harrington Preparatory School in
Westchester County.

After graduation from college he took the course in
the Albany Law School, and received the degree of Bache-
lor of Laws in 1873. He was at once admitted to practice
in his native city, also engaged in the real estate business,
and soon became active in the Republican party. He was
a member of the Troy Common Council from 1873 to
1877, and in 1879 was elected to the New York State
Assembly. In November, 1873, he was appointed quar-
termaster, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, on the staff

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of Major-General Carr, and was later promoted to the
office of judge advocate, with the rank of colonel, and
served until 1880. The following three years he was on
the staff of Governor Alonzo B. Cornell as colonel and
aide-de-camp. In 1888 he was the Republican candidate
for mayor, and although in the final count his opponent
was credited with a small plurality, the decision led to a
bitter controversy. From 1889 to 1893 he was postmaster
of Troy. Since 1905 he had been active in improving
municipal conditions as commissioner in the Department
of Public Safety.

He was director of the Troy Savings Bank and Security
Trust Co., treasurer of the Pioneer Building Association,
vice-president and director of the Troy City Railroad, and
president of the branch of the New York State Bankers'
Association. From 1904 to 1907 he was president of the
Yale Alumni Association of Northeastern New York.

He was vestryman of St. John's Episcopal Church, dele-
gate to the Diocesan and General Conventions of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, a governor of the Marshall
Infirmary, trustee of the Troy Orphan Asylum, trustee of
the Troy Academy and the Emma Willard School.

Mr. Mann died of paralysis at his home in Troy,
November 28, 1912, at the age of 63 years.

He married, January 9, 1878, Jessie Melville, daughter
of Thaddeus W. Patchin of Buffalo, N. Y., and later of
Washington, D. C, and had six daughters, who, with Mrs.
Mann, survive him. One daughter is a member of the
Junior class in Wellesley College, and another daughter
married William E. Clow, Jr. (B.A. Yale 1907). A brother
(C.E. Renss. Polyt. Inst. 1872) was mayor of Troy in
1905. A sister married Hamilton Fish, Jr. (B.A. Columbia
1869).

Charles Edward Perkins, son of Dennis and Hannah
M. Perkins, was born November 13, 1849, in Brooklyn,

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N. Y. He was prepared for college at the private school
in New York City, of Rev. Benjamin W. Dwight.

Soon after graduation he entered the employ of Stod-
dard, Lovering & Co., importers and commission merchants,
and from 1875 was a member of the firm of Dennis Perkins
& Co., cotton brokers. He afterward owned and cultivated
a farm at Mountainville, near Cornwall-on-the-Hudson,
N. Y. This he sold in the fall of 1905, and returned to
New York City, and since 1907 had been bookkeeper for
the Holophone Glass Co. Recently his home had been at
Flushing, L. I., N* Y. For seven years he served in the
Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard.

He married, January 14, 1880, Alice P., daughter of
William Munn, and had a son and two daughters.

Mr. Perkins died at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital at
Hanover, N. H., July 30, 1912, from burns received on the
morning of that day in the fire which destroyed the Dan-
forth House at Fairlee, Vt. He was in his 63d year. His
wife and elder daughter lost their lives from the same
cause. The son (Ph.B. Yale 1905) and younger daughter
survive.

Mr. Perkins was a member of the Presbyterian Church.

1872
Thomas Rutherford Bacon, son of Rev. Leonard
Bacon, D.D., LL.D. (B.A. Yale 1820), who was pastor of
the Center Church in New Haven, Conn., from 1825 until
his death in 1881, was born in New Haven, June 26, 1850.
His mother was Catherine Elizabeth, daughter of Hon.
Nathaniel Terry (B.A. Yale 1786). He was prepared for
college at the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven.
He edited the Yale Banner in 1871, and was chairman of
the Courant board of editors in 1871-72. During and after
his college course he wrote many fugitive articles and
poems, contributing to the Yale Record, Atlantic Monthly,
Scribner's Magazine, and other periodicals.

1870-1872 429

After graduation he spent a year in railroad surveying
in Cattaraugus County, N. Y., the next year traveling in
Europe, and in September, 1874, entered the Yale Divinity
School. After a three years' course he received the degree
of Bachelor of Divinity, and remained in New Haven the
following year, studying a part of the time. In 1876 he
published a Record of his College class.

In September, 1878, he went to Terre Haute, Ind., where
he was ordained pastor of the First Congregational Church
April 17, 1879. In May, 1880, he closed his work there,
and six months later accepted a call to the pastorate of the
Dwight Place Congregational Church in New Haven, where
he continued four years. The next two years he was asso-
ciated with his classmate, Clarence Deming, in editorial
work on the New Haven Morning News, and for a time
was editor. Later, for a few months, he aided William L.
Kingsley, Litt.D. (B.A. Yale 1843), m editing the New
England er.

In June, 1887, he was called to the pastorate of the First
Congregational Church at Berkeley, Cal. The following
February he also took up temporarily the work of Instructor
in History in the University of California, but after two
years resigned his pastorate, and accepted the appointment
of Associate Professor of European History. Since 1895
he had been Professor of Modern European History. He
was the official delegate of the University of California to
the Yale Bicentennial Celebration. He was at one time pres-
ident of the University Club in Berkeley.

Professor Bacon's health had not been good for several
years, and he died at Berkeley, March 26, 1913. He was
in his 63d year.

He married in Terre Haute, August 18, 1880, Jenny
Bement Foote, who died in 1912. They had no children.

Five of Professor Bacon's brothers received the degree
of Bachelor of Arts from the University, in 1847, l&5°>
1853, 1856, and 1873, respectively, one that of Doctor of

43° YALE COLLEGE

Medicine in 1853, and one that of Master of Arts in 1878.
A sister married Eugene Smith (B.A. Yale 1859).

Clarence Deming, youngest of the seven children of
William Deming (B.A. Yale 181 1) and Charlotte Tryon
(Bull) Deming, was born October 1, 1848, in Litchfield,
Conn. He received his college preparation at the "Gunnery"
school in Washington, Conn., and the Hopkins Grammar
School in New Haven.

He entered college with the class of 1871 but in the
summer of 1869, while playing baseball in Waterbury on
the Yale team, in running for a ball he stepped on a scythe
which had been left in the field and cut an artery. A long
illness followed, and in the fall of 1870 he joined the class
of 1872. He was a member of the University Baseball
Nine for five years, and captain two years. He was also a
member of the University Football team two years, and
was throughout his life interested in all forms of out-door
sport. In Senior year he was an editor of the Yale Courant.

After graduation he was an associate editor of the Troy
(N. Y.) Whig for eight months, and then studied for six
months in the Graduate School. In February, 1874, he
became night editor of the New Haven Palladium, the
following spring went abroad for three months, then
resumed his position upon the Palladium, remaining till
February, 1875. During the next six years he was an
assistant editor of the New York Evening Post, and for
three years following was traveling correspondent of the
same paper, visiting Europe, Newfoundland, the West
Indies, and the Mississippi valley, writing from Ireland of
the "outrages" in 1882. Two years later selections from
his letters to the Post from various places were printed in a
volume, "By-ways of Nature and Life."

In 1884 he became editor in chief of the New Haven
Morning News, an independent paper published by a com-
pany of which Professor Henry W. Farnam (B.A. Yale

1872 43 i

1874) was president, and for the last year of his service,
after an absence during which his classmate Bacon was
editor, had entire charge of the paper. After leaving this
paper in December, 1887, he resumed editorial writing for
the Evening Post, and continued as its general Connecticut
correspondent and Yale correspondent to the close of his
life. He was also for years one of the local contributors
to the Associated Press, a frequent contributor to the Yale
Alumni Weekly, particularly of financial and historical
articles, and an occasional writer for The Outlook and other
periodicals. A number of his outdoor papers, chiefly on
fishing, appeared in Outing. He was a close student of
political affairs, and deeply interested in economic subjects,
especially railroad matters, for many years being an editorial
writer and associate editor of the Railroad Gazette, later
called the Railroad Age-Gazette. Lately he had written a
series of seven articles on American railway themes for
the London Times. Several years ago he wrote "The End
of the Game," a poem of the ball player.

He was a fearless leader in many efforts for political
reform. He was nominated by Governor Morris (B.A.
Yale 1854) for state insurance commissioner, but the senate
declined to confirm the nomination. His integrity and fair-
mindedness were recognized in his selection twice in recent
years as the representative of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad in the arbitration of its differences
with its employees of the subsidiary Connecticut trolley
lines.

While dictating copy to his son for his weekly article for
the Saturday edition of the Evening Post the illness from
acute indigestion from which Mr. Deming had been suffer-
ing for two weeks returned, and he died at his home in
New Haven, May 8, 19 13, in the 65th year of his age. The
burial was in Litchfield.

He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., November 10, 1879, Anna
Battell Humphrey, daughter of James and Urania (Battell)

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Humphrey. She died December 3, 1880. Mr. Deming
married again, in New Haven, June 10, 1886, Mary Bryant
Whiting, daughter of Nathan C. and Mary Stone (Bryant)
Whiting. She survives him with a son (B.A. Yale 191 1)
and two daughters, the elder of whom is a graduate of the
Yale Music School, and the younger a member of the class
of 1914 at Vassar.

Mr. Deming's eldest brother graduated from the Medical
School in 1856, and a sister of his father married Charles
Perkins (B.A. Yale 1813), one of whose daughters was
the wife of Professor James Mason Hoppin (B.A. Yale
1840). His classmates, Charles C. and Henry C. Deming,
sons of Hon. Henry C. Deming (B.A. Yale 1836), were
his cousins.

Elbert Hamilton Hubbard was born August 19, 1849,
in Rushville, Ind., only surviving child of Hon. Asahel
Wheeler Hubbard, who was Iowa district judge from 1858
to 1862, and representative in Congress from 1863 to 1869.
His mother, Leah (Pugh) Hubbard, died in 1854. His
father removed to Sioux City, la., in 1856, and he was
prepared for college under a private tutor.

After graduation he studied law with C. R. Marks, Esq.,
in Sioux City, was admited to the Iowa bar in 1874, and
since then had practiced his profession in Sioux City, and
taken an active part in political life. He was at first in
partnership with Mr. Marks, then in the firm of Wright
& Hubbard, and since 1902 in the firm of Hubbard &
Burgess. He was a member of the Iowa House of Repre-
sentatives in 1882-83, of the Senate in 1900-04, and was
elected to the national Congress for four terms, from 1905
to 1913. He was a Republican, but voted according to his
convictions.

Just after finishing an exciting campaign in which he
was renominated for Congress, he died suddenly of heart

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failure at the house of a friend in Sioux City, June 4, 1912.
He was in his 63d year.

He married at Sioux City, June 6, 1882, Eleanor Heer-
mance, daughter of Nathaniel Ripley Cobb (B.A. N. Y.
Univ. 1844) and Charlotte Ellen (Kirtland) Cobb of New-
York City. She survives him with two sons and two
daughters. The elder son received the degree of Bachelor
of Arts from Iowa State University in 1907, the elder
daughter the same degree from Wellesley College in 1908,
and the younger son that of Bachelor of Laws from George
Washington University in 19 10. The younger daughter is
a student at Barnard College.

William Bailey Wheeler, son of Thomas Wheeler,
a farmer, and Rhoda Ann (Owney) Wheeler, was born
June 6, 1850, in Dover, N. Y. He was prepared for college
at Wilbraham, Mass. During his college course he was a
member of the University Baseball Nine for three years.

After graduation he was for thirty years in business in
Wall Street, and a member of the Stock Exchange. He
was also an elder of the Wrest Presbyterian Church, New
York City. About ten years ago, he retired from business,
and since then had spent much time in travel. His home
was for many years at Quaker Hill, Pawling, N. Y., where
he was school trustee in 1890.

Mr. Wheeler died suddenly at the Presbyterian Hospital,
New York City, July 20, 19 12, at the age of 62 years.

He married in Jersey City, N. J., November 4, 1874,
Mary E., daughter of George A. Toffey, and had a son
and daughter, who survive him. The son was a member
of the class of 1905 in the Sheffield Scientific School, but
did not graduate.

1873
Algernon Thomas Bristow, son of Isaac and Charlotte
(Andrews) Bristow, was born in Richmond, Surrey, Eng-

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land, November 29, 1851. In his early childhood his parents
settled in Canada, and were then in Cincinnati, O., until
1864, when they moved to Brooklyn, N. Y., where he was
prepared for college at the Polytechnic Institute.

After graduation he entered the College of Physicians
and Surgeons (Columbia University), and received the
degree of Doctor of Medicine there in 1876. He spent a
year in the Kings County Hospital at Flatbush, then estab-
lished himself in practice in Brooklyn. For years he was
connected with the Long Island College Hospital Medical
School, as Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy from 1885
to 1894, Demonstrator the following three years, later
as Lecturer on Anatomy, and then Clinical Professor of
Surgery. He was associate surgeon of St. Mary's Hospital
and Kings County Hospital, and later visiting surgeon to
the Long Island College Hospital, St. John's and Kings
County Hospitals, and consulting surgeon to the Bushwick
Central and State Hospitals.

He contributed largely to medical periodicals, and wrote
the chapter on Post Mortem Examinations in Hamilton's
"Medico-Legal Jurisprudence." He was editor of The New
York State Journal of Medicine.

He was president of the Medical Society of the State
of New York in 1903, and was able to harmonize the two
state societies which had been separated for twenty years. In
1906 he was elected a member of the American Surgical
Association. He was also a fellow of the New York
Academy of Medicine and of the American Academy of
Medicine.

In recognition of his service the Bristow Home and
Training School for Nurses of the Kings County Hospital
received its name.

Dr. Bristow died at his home in Brooklyn, March 26,
191 3, from blood poisoning contracted March 12 while
operating for appendicitis at the Long Island College Hos-
pital. He was 61 years of age.

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He married at Haverford College, Haverford, Pa., June
17, 1 89 1, Emilie, daughter of Albert Sidney and Elizabeth
(Graham) Ashmead of Philadelphia. She survives him
with two daughters.

Joseph Pacificus Ord, son of Pacificus Ord, a California
lawyer, and Maria Louisa (Pogue) Ord, was born April
30, 1852, at Monterey, Cal.

He was fitted for college chiefly in New Haven under
a private tutor, William C. Wood (B.A. Yale 1868), and
was a member of the class of 1872 for two years, joining
the class of 1873 at the beginning of Sophomore year.

After graduation he was connected with the Alta Cali-
fornia as a reporter for a year in San Francisco, began the
study of law in the office of William H. L. Barnes, a non-
graduate member of the class of 1855, Yale College, and
then came East and entered the Columbia Law School, from
which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1877.
He was admitted to the New York bar, and during the
next two years practiced to some extent, but much of the
time was occupied with business interests. In August, 1880,
he went to Princeton University to take charge of some sani-
tary engineering construction, and for about a year was
superintendent of buildings and grounds there. In Sep-
tember, 1 88 1, he resigned to become vice-president of the
Chicago Belt Line Railroad Co. and general manager of
the East Chicago Improvement Co., and in January, 1883,
became treasurer and secretary of the Denver (Colo.),
Circle Railroad Co.

In 1884 he became assistant to the receiver of the West
Shore (N. Y.) Railroad, and treasurer of the Syracuse,
Ontario & New York Railway and the Wallkill Valley
Railroad Co. The excellence of his work attracted the
attention of J. P. Morgan & Co., who induced him to
become comptroller of the various Edison electric com-
panies in November, 1889, and of the General Electric Co.

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when it was formed in June, 1892. He was later second
vice-president, having charge of the accounting and financial
departments. His business sagacity proved very profitable
to the company and to himself. In March, 1901, he resigned
to become a partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., but in July,
1902, on account of ill health, he retired from business
altogether, except that he remained a director and member
of the executive committee of the General Electric Co.

Since then he had made his home in Albany, N. Y., but
spent much time on a large farm which he bought at West-
port on Lake Champlain.

Mr. Ord died January 9, 191 3, of heart disease at the
Hotel St. Regis in New York City. He was in his 61 st
year. His funeral was held in the Cathedral of All Saints
in Albany.

He married in Albany, June 3, 1903, Susan, daughter of
Isaac and Susan (Foster) Vander Poel, who survives him
with a daughter.

James Perry Platt, son of Hon. Orville Hitchcock Piatt
(LL.D. Yale 1887), United States senator from 1879 until
his death in 1905, and Annie (Bull) Platt, was born March
31, 1 85 1, at Towanda, Pa., whither his father, who was
teaching at "The Gunnery," Washington, Conn., had gone
with Mr. Gunn to find surroundings more tolerant of
their abolition sentiments. When the son was six months
old the family returned to Connecticut, and their home had
since been in WTest Meriden. During his childhood he
lived with his grandfather, Daniel G. Platt, in Washington,
and attended "The Gunnery." He finished his college
preparation at the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven.

Under medical advice he left College during the second
term of Senior year, and went abroad, but in 1892 received
his degree and was enrolled in the class.

In the fall of 1873 he went into the law office of his
father in Meriden, and a year later joined the Senior class

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in the Yale Law School, from which he received the
degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1875. He then entered
into partnership with his father under the name of O. H.
& J. P. Piatt. In 1892 he was delegate at large to the
National Republican Convention.

In 1878 and 1879 he was a member of the Connecticut
House of Representatives, was city attorney of Meriden
from 1879 to 1893, and judge of the city court from 1893
to 1902. He was appointed judge of the United States
district court for Connecticut and served until his death.
He was a trustee of the Meriden Savings Bank.

Judge Piatt died at his home, January 26, 1913, after a
painful illness of several months from a cancerous growth
in the throat. He was in the 62d year of his age.

He married in Meriden, December 2, 1885, Harriet White,
daughter of John and Wealthy Sage (Merwin) Ives. She
survives him with a daughter, a son having died in infancy.

Seth Thayer Stewart, son of Alexander and Catharine
(Graham) Stewart, was born November 29, 1850, in Cin-
cinnati, Ohio. He was prepared for college at the Hughes
High School in that city.

In "Freshman and Senior years he won the first prize in
mathematics, and also the Clark premium for the solution
of astronomical problems. He was a member of the Uni-
versity Glee Club.

After graduation he entered the Columbia Law School,
and in 1875 received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He
practiced law in New York City at intervals until 1881, in
1879 with Gilbert R. Hawes (B.A. Amherst 1876) becoming
a member of the firm of Stewart & Hawes, but gradually
abandoned law for teaching. While in the Law School and
afterwards he taught in Grammar School No. 58 in New
York City, and was successively instructor in the higher
mathematics at the Friends' Seminary in 16th street, vice-
principal of the Jersey City High School, and instructor

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in geometry and algebra in the Brooklyn Evening High
School. In May, 1882, he was appointed principal of
Public School No. 13 in Brooklyn, and the following
October principal of the evening school on Lewis Avenue.
Later he took charge of Grammar School No. 78, with its
three branches, until June 1896, when he was elected one
of the associate superintendents of the department of educa-
tion of the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx. The
following year he was reelected for six years, and since
then had been a city district superintendent. He spent a
number of summers abroad in the study of European
educational systems.

While in Brooklyn he was president of the Brooklyn
Principals' Association, president of the Brooklyn Teachers'
Association, superintendent of the New York Avenue
Methodist Sunday School for five years, secretary of the
board of trustees of the New York Avenue Methodist
Church, and for a year secretary of the Union League Club
of Brooklyn. During his presidency of the Brooklyn
Teachers' Association he established a university extension
organization to encourage home study. This led to similar
enterprises in many cities, and finally the work was placed
in charge of the University of the State of New York.
In 1897 he proposed to the board of New York City
school superintendents a system of summer or vacation
schools and the use of the school houses as neigh-
borhood centers. In 1898 he organized the work, em-
ploying five hundred teachers. In 1901 the number of
teachers had increased to one thousand. In 1909 he was
director of children's festivals at the Hudson-Fulton
celebration.

He gave courses of lectures at Columbia University on
play schools, and on other educational subjects, before
various bodies. In 1891 he published "Plane and Solid
Geometry," and "Geometrical Problems," and in 1898-99
prepared Reports on Vacation Schools and Playgrounds,

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which were published by the city. Mr. Stewart died after
a prolonged illness at his home in Brooklyn, April 15, 191 3,
in the 63d year of his age.

He married in New Haven, Conn., October 13, 1875,
Adeline, daughter of Peter and Margaret (Lithgow) Goode-
nough. She died in Brooklyn, May 3, 1893, and of their
four sons only the youngest (B.A. Yale 1908) is living.
July 11, 1900, Mr. Stewart married Adela Josephine,
daughter of William H. Lyon, a retired merchant of New
York, who also survives him.

1874

William Hedges, youngest of the three sons of Judge
Henry Parsons Hedges (B.A. Yale 1838), who was for
over two years previous to his death in September, 191 1,
the oldest living graduate of the University, was born June
.21, 1851, at Sag Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. His mother
was Gloriana (Osborn) Hedges. When he was very young
his parents moved to Bridgehampton, L. I., and he was
fitted for college in that village.

After graduation he spent a year tutoring and studying
in his father's law office in Bridgehampton, and the follow-
ing three years in the Yale Divinity School, receiving the
degree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1878. The next year
he was in Bridgehampton, supplying the pulpit of the
Presbyterian Church, and the following three years preached
in the Presbyterian Church at Mattituck, L. I. He was
licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Long Island in
1878, and ordained by the same body in October, 1879. In
November, 1882, he became acting pastor of the Congre-
gational Church at Jamesport, L. I., and in 1885 was
installed as pastor. There, as in other pastorates, he left
an abiding influence for good in the community. From
November, 1893, to October, 1898, he was pastor of the
Harwinton (Conn.) . Congregational Church. Desiring a
better knowledge of changes in theological thought, he

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then spent a year in graduate study in Union Theological
Seminary, New York City. During the year, while pursuing
his studies, he became pastor of the Congregational Church
at Wading River, L. L, and remained there until September,
1901. While on Long Island he was for some time secre-
tary of the Suffolk Association of Congregational Churches
and Ministers.

On leaving Wading River he became pastor of the Con-
gregational Church in Colebrook, Conn., and continued
there until increasing ill-health caused his resignation, May
1, 1912.

Mr. Hedges died suddenly in Bridgehampton, November
28, 1912, at the age of 61 years. A brother survives him.

He married at Mattituck, L. I., June 8, 1880, Harriet
S., daughter of Rev. James T. Hamlin. Mrs. Hedges died
April 22, 1887. They had no children. A brother (B.A.
Yale 1869) died in 1881.

Alfred Quinton Kennett, son of William Covington
and Julia (Clapp) Kennett, was born July 25, 1854, in St.
Louis, Mo. He was fitted for college at Smith Academy
in that city, and after a year in Washington University,
St. Louis, joined his class in Yale at the beginning of
Sophomore year.

After graduation he entered the St. Louis Law School
(Washington University), and was admitted to the bar in
1876. After practicing three years, he gave up the law, and
was engaged in business, chiefly mercantile, for twenty-two
years. From 1884 to 1892 he resided in Carrollton, 111. In
1901 he became general assistant in Washington University,
and then Secretary and Treasurer, continuing in those
offices until June, 191 1, when a serious affection of the
liver compelled him to resign.

From 1877 to 1879 he was a member of the Missouri
National Guard, resigning as first lieutenant. In 1894 he
reentered the service as major in the First Infantry, and at

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the outbreak of the Spanish War in 1898 he accompanied
his regiment to Chickamauga, where it remained from May
to September. October 31 he was mustered out with the
rank of senior major.

He spent much time between 1879 and 1889 in the Rocky-
Mountains, camping, fishing, and hunting, and also visited
Cuba and Mexico.

He was a member of the St. Louis Academy of Science,
the Missouri Historical Society, the St. Louis Civic League,
besides social and recreation clubs.

Following his resignation at Washington University in
June, 191 1, he spent several months in Europe, and in
May, 1912, went abroad again with a sister for an indefi-
nite stay in search of health. He was greatly benefited by
the treatment at Nauheim, and in November settled in
Rome, Italy, for the winter. He died there suddenly of
pneumonia, December 27, 1912. He was 58 years of age,
and unmarried. His body was cremated and his ashes left
in Rome. A brother and five sisters survive him.

1875

Carl Thurston Chester, son of Leonard Hendee
Chester, a merchant of Buffalo, N. Y., and Lucy Caroline
(Thurston) Chester, was born August 1, 1853, at Norwich,
Conn. He was fitted for college at the Norwich Free
Academy and the Briggs Classical School in Buffalo. While
in college he was an editor of the Yale Literary Magazine,
and won the DeForest prize.

After graduation he studied law in Columbia Uni-
versity, and upon receiving the degree of Bachelor of
Laws there in 1877 was admitted to the New York bar,
and returned to Buffalo, where he entered the law office
of Bowen, Rogers & Locke, for whom he soon became
managing clerk. In January, 1880, he opened an office
of his own, but afterward was a member with Carl H.

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Smith and Frederick C. Gratwick of the firm of Chester,
Smith & Gratwick. He made a specialty of realty law.

Since 1882 he had been secretary of the Buffalo Orphan
Asylum, since 1884 secretary to the board of trustees of
the City Hall, and since the establishment of the Buffalo
Law School had been a lecturer there. He was one of
the founders and for two terms dean of the Saturn Club.

Mr. Chester died after an illness of several months at
his home in Buffalo, August 29, 191 2, at the age of 59
years. He was not married.

1876

Henry Maynard Butler, son of Jacob and Esther
(Maynard) Butler, was born April 28, 1854, at Muscatine,
la. He was fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass.

After graduation he studied law a short time in Chicago
with David Crocker, Esq., and then in Columbus, Ohio,
with Henry C. Noble (B.A. Miami 1845). In 1878 he
was admitted to the Ohio bar and was for a time associated
in practice with Mr. Noble. He continued in the practice
of his profession in Columbus until his appointment, Feb-
ruary 1, 1 910, as solicitor in the Navy Department. About
the end of 191 1 he was transferred to the Bureau of Cor-
porations, Department of Commerce and Labor, as a special
attorney. While in college he was a member of the Glee
Club and was afterward active in musical circles.

Mr. Butler died after an illness of two months from a
complication of troubles at the Washington Sanitarium, at
Takoma Park, near Washington, D. C, May 16, 1913. He
was 59 years of age, and unmarried. The burial was in
Columbus. Two sisters, residing in California, survive him.

William DeLancey Ellwanger, son of George and
Cornelia (Brooks) Ellwanger, was born September 27,

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1855, in Rochester, N. Y. He was prepared for college at
the school of Daniel S. Benjamin (B.A. Univ. Rochester
1862) in Rochester, and came to Yale the third term of
Freshman year from Racine College.

After graduation he spent nearly two years in Europe,
and upon his return to Rochester in June, 1878, spent a
year in the law office of Oscar Craig (B.A. Union 1856)
and the winter of 1879-80 at the Albany Law School,
receiving from there the degree of Bachelor of Laws in
1880. In June of that year he was admitted to the New
York state bar, and in the succeeding year formed a part-
nership with his classmate, Joseph S. Hunn, which con-
tinued until 1904.

Besides his law practice, Mr. Ellwanger was connected
with the Post-Express Printing Co., was president of
the nurseries of Ellwanger & Barry, Inc., founded by
his father, and of the Ellwanger & Barry Realty Co., all of
Rochester. He also became known as a writer of choice
prose and verse. He published "A Summer Snowflake and
Drift of other Verse and Song," 1902 ; "The Oriental Rug,"
1903 ; "A Snuff-box full of Trees," "Some Apocryphal
Essays," 1909; "Some Religious Helps to a Literary
Style," "The Collecting of Stevensons," and articles in the
Century Magazine and Bookman, and songs. He was a
member of the Grolier Club of New York City. Besides
his interest in the rugs of the Orient, he had a rare collection
of ancient porcelains.

Mr. Ellwanger died of heart disease at his home in
Rochester, February 16, 1913, at the age of 57 years.

He married in Rochester, May 10, 1887, Laura H.,
daughter of Henry Rogers Selden (LL.D. Yale 1857),
formerly judge and lieutenant-governor of New York state,
and Laura Anne (Baldwin) Selden. She survives him with
a daughter. He was the last survivor of four sons. His
brother, George Herman Ellwanger, M.A., also a charming
writer, died in 1906.

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Isaac Morton Jackson, son of Isaac C. and Abby
(Rundlett) Jackson, was born September 7, 1852, in Plym-
outh, Mass., where the family home had been for nearly
two centuries. He was prepared for college there and at
West Newton, Mass.

After graduation he spent a year in the law office of Mason
& Lord at Plymouth, and another year at the Boston Uni-
versity Law School. He was admitted to the bar in Novem-
ber, 1878, but did not practice his profession. He served
the town in important offices, without compensation. He
was a trustee of the Plymouth Savings Bank, and of the
Pilgrim Memorial Society. He was a member of the Old
Colony Club of Plymouth and the University Club of
Boston, and he was one of the charter members of the
Plymouth Country Club.

He traveled in Europe and the Orient, and spent several
winters in the South and at Nassau.

Mr. Jackson died after an operation at the Jordan Hos-
pital, Plymouth, April 4, 1913. He was 60 years of age,
and never married. He was the last member of his im-
mediate family. He left a bequest to the Yale Alumni
Fund.

1877

Willis Anson Briscoe, son of Hon. Charles H. and
Anna Judson (Traver) Briscoe, was born December 16,
1856, in Enfield, Conn. In 1868 the family removed to
Hartford, Conn., and he was prepared for college at the
High School there.

After graduation he studied law in the office of T. C.
Coogan at Thompsonville, Conn., and was admitted to the
Connecticut bar in May, 1879. He practiced in Enfield
about a year, was in partnership with his classmate, James
P. Andrews, in Bristol another year, and in August, 1881,
removed to Norwich, and was associated in practice with

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Jeremiah Halsey until the latter's death in 1896. He was
admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United
States in 1891. While with his classmate Andrews he com-
piled the "Index Digest of Connecticut Reports" in 1883.
He was at one time corporation counsel of Norwich.

He was elected a director of the Thames National Bank
in 1898, vice-president in 1907, and president in 1909, and
was a director of the Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Co.,
Lee & Osgood Co., Hopkins & Allen Arms Co., the Norwich
Street Railway Co., Montville Street Railway Co., the Nor-
wich Woolen Co., and the Norwich Bulletin Association.
He was trustee of the Norwich Savings Society, a corporator
of the Norwich Free Academy, and a director of the Eliza
Huntington Memorial Home.

Mr. Briscoe died of heart failure at his home in Norwich,
April 29, 191 3, in the 57th year of his age.

He married at Newtown, Conn., October 8, 1882, Jessie
E. Drew. She died in 1885, and September 5, 1888, he
married in Ridgefield, Conn., Leila Rogers Smith. She
died in 1891, but a son (B.A. Yale 1912) survives.

George Montgomery Tuttle, son of Rev. James Hawley
Tuttle, D.D., and Harriet (Merriman) Tuttle, was born
October 2, 1856, in Rochester, N. Y., where his father was
pastor of the Universalist Church. During his early years
the family lived in Chicago, but about 1867 removed to
Minneapolis. After a year of study in Dresden, Germany,
he was prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass.

His earliest American ancestor, William Tuttle, bought
land which was subsequently sold to Yale College, on which
South College, the Athenaeum, and South Middle College
were afterward built.

After graduation he studied in the College of Physicians
and Surgeons (Columbia University) and received there
the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1880. He was then

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interne in the New York Hospital nearly two years, and
physician-in-chief to the State Emigrant Hospital, on
Ward's Island, a year and a half. While there he was in-
strumental in effecting a thorough reorganization. He then
went abroad, spending several months in study in Leipsic,
and as a resident physician in the hospitals of Dresden and
Prague.

Returning to New York at the close of 1883 he began the
practice of his profession, in which he attained a wide
reputation. In 1885 he was appointed Professor of Gynecol-
ogy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and con-
tinued in that position eighteen years. From 1885 to 1889
he was also attending physician at Bellevue Hospital.

Since 1884 he had been associated with Roosevelt Hos-
pital, and since 1888 as attending gynecologist. He was an
exceptionally skillful surgeon, and took a sincere and sym-
pathetic interest in his patients.

Dr. Tuttle was a contributor to "An American Text Book
on Gynecology," 1894, and wrote many articles for The
New York Medical Record, The American Journal of
Obstetrics, and other medical publications.

He was a member of the New York Academy of Medi-
cine, the New York County Medical Society, New York
Medical and Surgical Society, New York Clinical Society,
the Association of Alumni of the New York Hospitals, and
of other professional and social organizations.

He traveled extensively, made many trips abroad, and
twice visited China, Japan, and other Oriental countries.
He had spent recent summers at his summer home in Iles-
ford, Mount Desert, Me.

Dr. Tuttle died suddenly of angina pectoris at his home
in New York City, October 29, 1912, at the age of 56 years.

He married in Florence, Italy, April 5, 1906, Mrs. Mabel
Holden Kirkbride, widow of Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride,
daughter of Edward Singleton Holden, LL.D., formerly
Director of Lick Observatory, Cal., and Mary (Chauvenet)

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Holden, granddaughter of Chancellor William Chau-
venet (B.A. Yale 1840) of Washington University, St.
Louis. Mrs. Tuttle survives him with a daughter.

William Pierrepont Williams, son of William Pierre-
pont Williams, who was engaged in steamship transporta-
tion and manufacturing, and, for a time, was interested in
South American enterprises, especially at Valparaiso, Chile,
was born April 11, 1858, in Valparaiso. His mother was
Julia Woodbridge (Lanman) Williams. He was a grand-
son of Rev. Samuel Porter Williams (B.A. Yale 1796) and
great-grandson of Hon. James Lanman (B.A. Yale 1788).
Soon after his birth he was taken to Norwich, Conn., from
about 1862 to 1868 lived in New York City, and then in
Stratford, Conn. He was fitted for college at the Cheshire
and Stratford Academies. He was the youngest member
of his college class. He played two years on the University
Baseball Nine.

After graduation he took the law course in Columbia
University, received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in
1879, and studied further in the offices of Crosby & Kent
and Chamberlain, Carter & Hornblower. In 1881 he formed
a partnership with his classmate, Frederick Julian Stimson,
which continued for thirty years. He was the legal adviser
of prominent industrial corporations, and was vice-president
of the Virginia & Portland Railway Co., a part of the
Chesapeake & Ohio system.

In his earlier years he held high rank as a tennis player,
and was a member of the executive committee of the
National Lawn Tennis Association.

In the fall of 191 1 serious illness made him withdraw
entirely from work. For some years he lived at East
Orange, N. J., but removed to New York City, where he
died of cancer July 25, 1912, after more than a year's illness,
at the age of 54 years. The burial was in Norwich.

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He married in Fairfield, Conn., July 31, 1907, Mrs.
Katherine Clarke Mooney, who survives him. They had
no children.

1878

John Northrup Peet, son of John Henry Peet, a New-
York merchant, and Caroline (Northrup) Peet, was born
June 16, 1856, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was fitted for college
at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.

In Junior and Senior years he was secretary and treas-
urer of the Yale Glee Club, and in Senior year chairman
of the Promenade Committee.

After graduation he spent a year in the Meriden (Conn.)
Woolen Company's mills, and the following summer went
into the dry goods commission business in New York City,
and from 1885 was manager of the woolen department of
Knower & Cooley. From January, 1894, to April, 1896,
he occupied a similar position with Barnes, Hutchinson &
Pierce, and then with GElbermann, Dommerich & Co.

In October, 1889, he changed his residence from Brook-
lyn, N. Y., to Summit, N. J., where he became a director
and later vice-president of the First National Bank, and
president of the Summit Trust Co., though continuing his
connection with the wholesale woolen business in New
York. He was also an officer of the Summit Hospital Asso-
ciation. He was a member of Calvary Episcopal Church,
and had been a delegate to the Diocesan Convention.

While attending the play presented by the Yale Univer-
sity Dramatic Association in Plainfield, N. J., December 31,
1912, he was taken with a hemorrhage on the brain, and
died three hours later at the Muhlenberg Hospital there.
He was 56 years of age.

He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 12, 1888, Lucy
Ella, daughter of James Freeborn Carlisle and Lucy Ellen
(Alexander) Carlisle. She survives him with a son, who
is a member of the Sophomore class in College.

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1879

Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, youngest of the nine
children of John and Elizabeth (Buck) Auchincloss, was
born at his father's summer home in'Newport, R. L, July 8,
1858. His mother was a descendant of Thomas Dudley,
colonial governor of Massachusetts. He was prepared for
college at the Collegiate Institute of Morris W. Lyon (B.A.
Yale 1846) in New York City.

Soon after graduation he entered the employ of Muir
& Duckerworth, cotton buyers in Savannah, Ga., and
remained with them nearly two years. January 1, 1882,
he was admitted to partnership with his brother, John Win-
throp Auchincloss (Ph.B. Yale 1873) in the firm of
Auchincloss Brothers, dry goods commission merchants in
New York City. The business had been started by his
grandfather, Hugh Auchincloss, who came from Paisley,,
Scotland, and established here the thread industry of the
Coats firm in 1805. He retired from this business in 1891
to devote himself to managing private companies in min-
ing, manufacturing, transportation, as well as banking
and other interests. He was trustee of the Bowery Savings
Bank and Franklin Trust Co., director of the Bank of
Manhattan Co., the Consolidated Gas Co., and the Farmers'
Loan & Trust Co., all of New York, and had many other
financial connections. With his classmate, Ralph Barker,
he was engaged in the development of a nitrate property in
Florida.

Mr. Auchincloss died of apoplexy, following an illness
of over three years from a complication of diseases, at his
home in New York City, April 21, 1913, in the 55th year
of his age. One of his brothers (B.A. Yale 1871) died
in 1878. Another brother graduated from New York
University in 1864.

He married in New York City, November 19, 1891,
Emma Brewster, daughter of Oliver Burr and Esther
Judson (Goodsell) Jennings, sister of Walter Jennings and

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Oliver Gould Jennings (B.A. Yale 1880 and 1887, respec-
tively), and of the wife of Mr. Auchincloss's classmate, Dr.
Walter B. James. Mrs. Auchincloss survives him with two
daughters and a son.

Lewis Huntington Hyde, son of Lewis Andrew Hyde,
president of the Quinnebaug Bank of Norwich, Conn., was
born in that city June 27, 1857. His mother was Mary
Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Lathrop Huntington of
Norwich. He was prepared for college at the Norwich
Free Academy, and spent a year in travel, chiefly in Europe,
before entering college.

After graduation he studied two years in the Columbia
Law School, was admitted to the state bar in May, 1881,
and then practiced his profession in New York City con-
tinuously for twenty-five years. He was at first in the
office of Eugene Smith (B.A. Yale 1859), where he studied
real estate practice. This he afterward developed with
success in his own office. His first partner was Henry L.
Armstrong and the firm name Armstrong, Hyde & Arm-
strong. From 1889 to 1906 he was in partnership with
William D. Leonard (B.A. Wesleyan 1878) in the firms of
Hyde & Leonard and Hyde, Leonard & (Robert E. L.)
Lewis. He was a director of the Hoboken (N. J.) Land
and Improvement Co. In 1906 he retired from active prac-
tice, but retained a room in the same office, and devoted
himself to his duties as trustee of estates, and director of
corporations and philanthropic enterprises.

Mr. Hyde died at his home in New York City, March 6,
1913, after a brief illness from pneumonia, aged 55 years.
The funeral was in the Church of All Angels, New York
City, and the burial at Winchester, Va.

He married in New York City, April 28, 1897, Mary
Marshall (McGuire) Stevens, widow of John Stevens of
Castle Point, Hoboken, N. J. She died in 1905, leaving no
children. June 22, 1907, he married Leila, daughter of

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Dr. William P. and Anne Holmes (Tucker) McGuire, of
Winchester, Va., and a cousin of his first wife. She
survives him with a son and daughter.

1880

James Edward Newcomb, second son of James New-
comb, a merchant, and Sarah Ann (Weaver) Newcomb,
was born August 27, 1857, in New London, Conn. He
was prepared for college at the Bulkeley High School in
that city, and passed his entrance examinations with the
class of 1879, but went into business for a year before
taking up his college work.

After graduation from college he entered the College
of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), and
in 1883 received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. After
serving as house physician in Roosevelt Hospital, he began
practice in January, 1885. For several years he devoted
himself to general practice, but since 1892 had made a
specialty of diseases of the nose and throat. When the
Medical School of Cornell University was established in
1898 he was appointed Clinical Instructor in Laryngology,
in 1909 was made Assistant Professor, and in 191 1 Pro-
fessor of Clinical Surgery, with charge of the department
of diseases of the nose and throat. For twenty-nine years
he was continuously in the service of Roosevelt Hospital,
for many years being connected with the out-patient depart-
ment, and since 1903 being consulting laryngologist of that
institution. He was also attending physician to the Home
for the Relief of the Destitute Blind.

He was at one time Lecturer on Materia Medica in
the New York Veterinary College, had been on the staff
of the Demilt Dispensary, a lecturer of the Society for
Instruction in First Aid to the Injured, and one of the
sanitary inspectors of the New York Board of Health. He
was one of the medical examiners for the Stony Wold
Sanatorium for Tuberculosis at Lake Kushaqua in the

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Adirondacks, N. Y. In 1904 he investigated the treatment
of tuberculosis in sanatoria in Europe.

Dr. Newcomb edited the American edition of Green-
wald's "Atlas and Epitome of Diseases of the Mouth,
Pharynx and Nose," 1903, with Drs. Charles H. Burnett
(B.A. Yale 1864) and E. Fletcher Ingals (Rush Med. Coll.
1871), prepared "Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases," con-
tributed chapters to the "American Text Book of Eye, Ear,
Nose and Throat Diseases," "Twentieth Century Medicine,"
and Buck's "Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences,"
many articles to medical journals, and served on the edi-
torial staffs of the St. Louis Weekly Medical Review, the
Epitome, and the New York Medical Record.

He was a member of the New York State and County
Medical Societies, the American and New York Academies
of Medicine, and other medical organizations. In 1893 he
was elected a fellow of the American Laryngological Asso-
ciation, for eleven years was its secretary, and in 191 1 was
chosen president.

He was long a member of Calvary Baptist Church in
New York, in 1895 was elected to its board of trustees, and
in 1906 secretary of the latter. He was also a life member
of the New London County (Conn.) Historical Society.

Dr. Newcomb died of arterio-sclerosis at his summer
home on Lake Kushaqua on his birthday, August 27, 19 12,
at the age of 55 years.

He married in New York City, March 23, 1887, Elizabeth,
daughter of William Allen and Kate (Borden) Wilmot,
who survives him. They had no children. Mrs. New-
comb has been active in anti-tuberculosis work, and has
been president of the Stony Wold Sanatorium since its
organization in 1901.

1881

Clarence Franklin Carroll, son of Alonzo C. Carroll,
a merchant of Sutton and Warner, N. H., and Mercy A.

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(Hale) Carroll, was born April i, 185 1, at Grafton, N. H.,
but his parents moved to South Sutton when he was three
months old. He was prepared for college at the New
London (N. H.) Literary and Scientific Institution, and
was a member of the class of 1873 for a few weeks, but
was obliged to withdraw on account of ill health. He then
taught for eight years, going in succession to Boscawen,
N. H., Gloucester, Mass., and Nashville, Tenn., and then
as principal of grammar schools to Mamaroneck and
Astoria (Long Island City), N. Y., and East Orange, N. J.
In 1872 he traveled in Europe. In 1878 he joined the
class of 1881 as a Sophomore, and completed the course.

After graduation he was superintendent of schools for
two years at Oil City, Pa., and from 1883 to 1894 principal
of the Connecticut State Normal School at New Britain,
Conn., whose work he greatly developed. For nine years
following he was superintendent of schools at Worcester,
Mass., and from 1903 to 191 1 did notable service in the
same position at Rochester, N. Y. Resigning at Rochester
in 191 1, after two four-year terms, he retired to his farm
at Boscawen, but in August following was elected super-
intendent of schools at Marblehead, Mass.

He lectured on School Organization and Administration
at the Yale Summer School, and had given lectures at
Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell Universities, at Welles-
ley College, and seven courses at the summer session of the
State Normal School at Hyannis, Mass.

He was a leader in the National Education Association,
and his high ideals were shown in his many addresses.
He published " Around the World" (five volumes), in the
Geographical Series, a series of arithmetics, and "A Liter-
ary Reader" in seven volumes.

He received the degree of Master of Arts from the Uni-
versity of Rochester in 191 1 for work in philosophy and
pedagogy, and while at Marblehead was also a graduate
student in Harvard University.

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While making an address before the graduating class of
the Warner (N. H.) High School, Mr. Carroll was taken
suddenly with cerebral hemorrhage, and died a few minutes
later, June 14, 1912. He was 61 years of age.

He married at Boscawen, N. H., in 1872, Julia Appleton
Webster, daughter of Nathaniel S. and Lucy Ann (Lord)
Webster. She survives him with two sons (M.E. Cornell
Univ. 1903 and B.A. Yale 1905, respectively) and two
daughters.

Ernest Eldred Hart, son of Dr. Henry Watts Hart
(M.D. Syracuse 1846) and Sarah Helen (Way) Hart, was
born December 9, 1859, at West Union, la., lived there
and at Dubuque, la., until 1868, and since then at Council
Bluffs, la. He was fitted for college at the Council Bluffs
High School, and in the preparatory department of Iowa
(now Grinnell) College.

For three years after graduation he was a clerk in the
real estate office of his brother-in-law, J. D. Edmundson,
but since 1884 he had been in business by himself as a
banker and dealer in investment securities. In the fall of
the same year he established a private bank, which was
afterward carried on under the name of E. E. Hart, Inc.
In company with others he founded the Citizens State Bank,
which grew into the First National Bank of Council Bluffs,
and of which he was president. He was also president of
the Building & Loan Association, of the Real Estate &
Improvement Co., of the Inter-State Realty Co., and of
the Pottawattamie County Abstract Co., and director of
the Kretchmor Manufacturing Co. — all in Council Bluffs, —
treasurer of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and
Bridge Co., vice-president of the York & Hill Realty Co.
of Denver, Colo., and connected with other financial insti-
tutions. He had been president and treasurer of the Council
Bluffs Rowing Association. He was a member and treas-
urer of the Congregational Church, and had been vice-
president of the Young Men's Christian Association.

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In 1892 he was a delegate to the Republican National
Convention, and in 1900, 1904, and 1908, a member of the
Republican National Committee from Iowa. He served as
a private in the 51st Regiment, Iowa National Guard, from
1888 to 1893.

Mr. Hart had been on a business trip to Oregon and
Washington and died of acute heart trouble at Long Beach,
Cal., February 1, 191 3, at the age of 53 years. He was a
member of the Congregational church.

He married at Council Bluffs, October 16, 1889, Clara,
daughter of George and Luzerba Bebbington. She sur-
vives him with two sons and a daughter. One son died
in infancy. The eldest son is a member of the Freshman
class in the Sheffield Scientific School.

Leonard Hayes Poole, son of William T. and Eleanor
Leonard (Hayes) Poole, was born February 16, 1858, in
Montgomery County, Md., and entered college as a resident
of Baltimore from George Washington University.

After graduation he studied law at the University of
Maryland, in Baltimore, and after his admission to the bar,
for several years represented the United States Government
chiefly in the western states and territories in cases pending
before the Department of the Interior. Since 1888 he had
engaged in general law practice, in Washington, D. C,
until 1905, and since then in Parkersburg, W. Va.

Mr. Poole died of paralysis at his home in Parkersburg,
February 9, 1913, at the age of 55 years.

He married at Parkersburg, September 9, 1905, Mrs.
Sophia R. Jackson, daughter of John Valleau Rathbone
and Anna Maria (Doremus) Rathbone. They had no
children. Mrs. Poole survives him.

1882

Samuel Bennett, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Che-
nault) Bennett, was born October 2, 1858, at Whitehall,

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Richmond, Ky. With his cousin, David A. Chenault, he
entered the class at the beginning of Sophomore year, from
Central University in his native state.

After graduation he engaged in farming at home for
some years, but from 1889 to 1893 was deputy collector
of internal revenue, in 1894-95 was cashier of the Louis-
ville & Nashville Railroad, and then was corporation clerk
to the state auditor at Frankfort, Ky.

He married at Lexington, Ky., February 18, 1886, Mary
Winston, daughter of Benjamin and Clara (Cochran)
Warfield. In October, 1904, he removed to Lexington.

Mr. Bennett died at his home in Lexington, March 10,
191 3, in his 55th year, from heart failure, due in part to
anxiety because of his wife's illness. His health had been
failing for a year, and he did not recover from pneumonia
in the autumn previous.

Mrs. Bennett survives him with three sons and two
daughters. One son died in early childhood. The eldest
son and elder daughter graduated from the University
of Kentucky in 1908 and 191 1 respectively. A brother
(B.A. Yale 1872) and a sister are also living.

Stephen Merrell Clement, son of Stephen Mallory
and Sarah Elizabeth (Leonard) Clement, was born Novem-
ber 4, 1859, at Fredonia, Chautauqua County, N. Y. In
1870 the family moved to Buffalo, N. Y., where he was
prepared for college in the State Normal School.

He was a member of the Dunham four-oared crew in
the fall of 1880, and of his class crew in 1881 and 1882.
He was also a member of the University Glee Club, and
superintendent of Bethany Sunday School.

After graduation he traveled with a group of class-
mates in Europe and the Orient for nine months, and on
his return in April, 1883, entered the Marine Bank of
Buffalo, the following December was appointed assistant

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cashier, and a year later was elected cashier. Since March,
1895, he had been president. Under his administration the
bank was reorganized on a national basis, and grew greatly
in influence. Mr. Clement was a member of the com-
mittee which organized the Buffalo clearing house in 1889,
and since 1892 had been chairman of the clearing-house
committee. He was one of the organizers of the Power
City Bank at Niagara Falls, and had been a director since
its incorporation in 1893. He was president of the
Merchants National Bank of Dunkirk, N. Y. in 1892-93,
and was a director of the Ontario Power Co., the Niagara,
Lockport & Ontario Transmission Co., the International
Railway Co., and the Buffalo Abstract Title Co., president
of the .Buffalo & Susquehanna Steamship Co., and first
vice-president of the Rogers-Brown Iron Co.

He was a leader in the educational, philanthropic, and
religious interests of the city, being vice-president of the
State Normal School, president of the Fine Arts Academy,
president of the Buffalo General Hospital, president of the
board of trustees of the Young Men's Christian Association,
treasurer of the Christian Homestead Association and of
the Buffalo Orphan Asylum, and trustee of Auburn Theo-
logical Seminary. He was an elder in the Westminster
Presbyterian Church, and president of its board of trustees.

He was a member of the Yale Bicentennial Fund com-
mittee, the committee on the restoration of South Middle
College, and since 1908 of the Alumni Advisory Board.

Mr. Clement died at Atlantic City, N. J., March 26, 1913,
after an illness of eighteen months. During this time he
had been seeking health at Nauheim, Germany, at Johns
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, and elsewhere. He was 53
years of age.

He married in Buffalo, March 27, 1884, Caroline Jewett
Tripp, daughter of Augustus F. and Mary (Steele) Tripp
and a great-great-granddaughter of Rev. Stephen Steel
(B.A. Yale 1718), minister of Tolland, Conn. Mrs. Clem-

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ent survives him with four sons and a daughter. A daugh-
ter died in 1891, in her fifth year. Three of the sons have
graduated from the College, respectively in 1907, 19 10, and
1912.

1883

George Hill Bottome, son of Rev. Francis Bottome,
D.D., and Margaret (McDonald) Bottome, was born June
25, 1861, at Williamsburg, now a section of Brooklyn, N. Y.
His mother was a popular writer on religious subjects for
the young, and founder of the King's Daughters. He was
fitted for college at Hackettstown (N. J.) Seminary, and
then spent a year in traveling on the continent under the
tutorship of Rev. Mr. Coleridge, a grandson of the poet.

After graduation he spent a year at Oxford, England,
and then entered the General Theological Seminary in New
York City, from which he received the degree of Bachelor
of Divinity with honors in 1887. He was ordained Deacon
by Bishop Henry C. Potter in 1887, and Priest in 1888.
After a year at Zion Church, New York City, he became
assistant minister of Grace Church, and since the erection
of the parish buildings on East Fourteenth street in 1895,
had been vicar of the chapel and mission there which he
organized. In his service of twenty-five years he accom-
plished a large work in a wise and loving spirit.

As the result of nervous strain and overwork he con-
tracted diabetes about the beginning of 1910, but continued
actively at work until two or three days before his death.
While visiting friends at Ossining, N. Y., he was sud-
denly taken seriously ill, and died there May 10, 1913. He
was in his 52d year. A memorial service was held May 25 in
Grace Church.

He married, June 8, 1893, Anna Griswold Tyng, of
Morristown, N. J., daughter of Rev. Dudley Atkins Tyng
(B.A. Univ. Pa. 1843) and Catharine Maria (Stevens)
Tyng. She survives him with two sons. A brother (B.A.

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Yale 1893) is living, but another brother (B.A. Dickinson
College 1873), a clergyman in the English Church, died
about two weeks after his brother.

1886

Edward Sawyer Bacon, son of Charles E. and Susan
(Clarke) Bacon, was born March 8, 1863, in Dover, N. H.
He was prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter,
N. H.

After graduation he took the course in the Harvard
Medical School, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine
in 1889, then spent eighteen months as interne in the
Rhode Island General Hospital at Providence. He prac-
ticed in West Superior, Wise, until the death there in 1893
of his friend and classmate, Frank G. Peters, after which
he returned to Providence and established himself in general
practice. Since 1905 he had made a specialty of diseases
of the ear, nose, and throat. He was aural surgeon at the
Rhode Island Hospital, consulting aural surgeon at the
City and Butler hospitals and at the Rhode Island School
for the Deaf.

After an illness of several months, Dr. Bacon died of
a complication of diseases in Providence, April 8, 19 13, at
the age of 50 years. He was unmarried. A sister, Mrs.
Samuel C. Fisher, with whom he resided, survives him.

Gibbons Gray Cornwell, son of Captain Robert Thomp-
son Cornwell and Lydia (Jackson) Cornwell, was born
August 18, 1 86 1, at West Chester, Pa. He was prepared
for college at the Mathematical and Classical Institute of
John H. Worrall, Ph.D. (B.A. Yale 1856), in West Chester.

After graduation he studied law at home, was admitted
to practice in the Chester County courts June 10, 1889, and
before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, February 8,
1892, and since 1889 had been a member with his father of

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the firm of Cornwell & Cornwell, and had the care of many
estates.

During the Spanish- American war he was captain of
Company I, Sixth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers.
He was deeply interested in the National Guard of his
state, and was colonel of the Sixth Regiment.

While returning from New York City to his home to
meet charges of appropriating bonds belonging to a trust
estate he shot himself on the train just as it was leaving
North Philadelphia, and died instantly, August 6, 1912. He
was in his 51st year.

He married at Lancaster, Pa., January 18, 1899, Ella,
daughter of Edward M. Eberman. She survives him with
a daughter and three sons. A brother received the degree
of Civil Engineer from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in
1 901.

1888

Francis Bergstrom, son of Nils and Lena K. (Edberg)
Bergstrom, was born March 27, 1859, in Wermland,
Sweden, but came to the United States in 1866, and lived
in Minneapolis, Minn. He was fitted for college at Phillips
Academy, Andover, Mass.

After graduation he studied law in Minneapolis a year
in the orifice of Shaw, Best & Cray, and in the University
of Minnesota Law School. The following year he was
a student in the Harvard Law School. He was admitted
to the Massachusetts bar July 30, 1890, at East Cambridge,
and at once began practice in Minneapolis, where he gained
distinction in his profession. He also became well known
throughout the state as a Republican campaign orator.

In 1896 he published a directory of graduates of Yale
College in the practice of law.

Mr. Bergstrom removed to Worcester, Mass., in 1904,
where he continued the practice of law. He was vice-
president of the Thule Building Association. He was a

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trustee and deacon of the Central Congregational Church,
and a willing helper in its activities.

Mr. Bergstrom died at his home in Worcester from gas
asphyxiation, August 12, 19 12, at the age of 53 years. He
had been for months suffering from a nervous breakdown.
He was buried in West Parish Cemetery, Andover, Mass.

He married at Andover, Mass., June 14, 1894, Gertrude,
daughter of J. Warren and Eliza Jane (Foster) Barnard.
She survives him with a son, his first-born son having died
in early infancy in 1897.

Lucius Noyes Palmer, son of Lucius Noyes Palmer
(M.D. N. Y. Univ. 1849) and Anna (Gilbert) Palmer,
was born February 7, 1867, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was
descended from Rev. James Noyes, one of the founders
of Yale College. He was fitted for college at the Adelphi
Academy, Brooklyn.

After graduation he spent a year in foreign travel,
studied in the School of Political Science of Columbia Uni-
versity and received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy
in 1890, and then in the Columbia Law School, receiving
the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1892. He was at first
associated with the law firm of Parsons, Shepard & Ogden
in New York City, but since 1895 had practiced by himself.

Mr. Palmer died after a long illness from actinyomycosis,
in Denver, Colo., April 18, 1912, at the age of 45 years.
He was unmarried. A brother (B.A. Yale 1882) and two
sisters (B.A. Vassar 1879 and 1893, respectively) survive
him.

1889

Ernest Smith Bishop, son of Elisha Chapman and
Charlotte Griffin (Fowler) Bishop, was born October 28,
1866, at Titusville, Pa., but when a small child went with
his parents to Guilford, Conn., of which his ancestors were

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original settlers. He was prepared for college in the
Guilford High School.

After his graduation he took the course in the College
of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), and
upon receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine there in
1892 at once began the practice of medicine in Brooklyn,
N. Y., with eminent success.

He died at the home of his brother, Edward F. Bishop,
in Guilford, Conn., August 9, 1912, in the 46th year of his
age. For over twelve years he had been a sufferer from
Bright's disease, and had been in a serious condition for
several months.

He married in New York City, April 26, 1890, Maude
Elizabeth, daughter of Martin and Elizabeth Hubon. She
survives him with one son, a younger son and daughter
having died.

Walter Shaw Brewster, son of George Brewster, a
hardware merchant, and Marion (Betts) Brewster, was
born August 29, 1867, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was prepared
for college at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.

After graduation he studied a year in the Yale Law
School, and then entered the law office of Johnson &
Lamb in Brooklyn, and in the spring of 1892 was admitted
to the bar. Three years later he opened a law office by
himself, and was also for two years Brooklyn manager for
the American Surety Co. From October, 1897, to October,
1898, he was a partner in the firm of Yonge & Brewster,
then continued practice alone until 1902, when he was
appointed assistant corporation counsel of New York City.
February 1, 1904, he formed a partnership with Hon.
James McKeen, former corporation counsel in Brooklyn,
and John Hill Morgan (B.A. Yale 1893), in the firm of
McKeen, Brewster & Morgan, with offices in New York
and Brooklyn.

He was vice-president of the Brooklyn Bar Association,
a director of the Brevoort Savings Bank and the Franklin

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Safe Deposit Co., also a trustee of the Homeopathic Hos-
pital. He was active in political matters, and was a mem-
ber of the Kings County Republican General Committee,
had been president of the Brooklyn Republican Club, and
a director of the Brooklyn Young Republican Club. He
was class agent of the Yale Alumni Fund, and president
of the Alumni Association of the Brooklyn Polytechnic
Institute. He was a member of the Church of the New
Jerusalem.

Mr. Brewster died of apoplexy after a week's illness at
his home in Brooklyn, March 29, 191 3, in the 46th year of
his age.

He married in Brooklyn, November 22, 1893, Mrs.
Cecelia A. Dougherty, daughter of Peter and Mary E.
(Dick) Rice. She survives him with a son and daughter,
one son having died.

Edmund Burr White, son of Edmund and Lucinda
White, was born April 11, 1868, at East Randolph, now
Holbrook, Mass. He was prepared for college at the Hol-
brook High School and at Thayer Academy, South Brain-
tree, Mass.

After graduation he spent a year in Omaha, Nebr., and
three years at Hot Springs, S. D. There he studied law
and was admitted to the bar in 1892. He was also in the
real estate and mortgage business. In the autumn of 1893
he returned to Holbrook, where he resided till the summer
of 1 90 1. From 1895 to 1898 he was a shoe manufacturer.

Since 1901 his home had been in Chicago, 111., where he
was engaged in business about six years, and then took
up the study of osteopathy. This he practiced in 1911-12,
at the same time teaching biology, until interrupted in the
autumn of 1912 by serious illness. He died at his home in
Chicago, February 18, 1913, in the 45th year of his age.

He married Nellie Connor, who survives him. They had
no children.

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1892

Ferdinand Albert Hauslein, son of Malachi Haus-
lein, a farmer, and Emilie (Eichler) Hauslein, was born
May 7, 1866, at Genoa, Dekalb County, 111. He was fitted
for college at the Springfield (Mass.) and Marengo (111.)
High Schools.

The year after graduation from college he was a resi-
dent student in the Graduate School, then taught Latin,
German, and Greek in the Ball High School, Galveston,
Texas, until 1901, after which he was Professor of Latin
and German in the North Texas State Normal School at
Denton. He was co-editor of Triplett and Hauslein's
"Civics, Federal and Texas," adopted by the Texas School
Board.

He received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale in
1895. He and his family were in Galveston at the time
of the great flood in September, 1900, but all escaped.

He died of acute pancreatitis at Dallas, Texas, July I,
1912. He was 46 years of age. He is buried in Denton;
Texas.

He married at Northampton, Mass., September 7, 1892,
Clara Elizabeth, daughter of Lucien Augustus and Ellen
Eliza (Pierce) Dawson, who survives him with four sons
and four daughters, the eldest child being the Class Boy.

i893
Burton Emerson Leavitt, son of Nason W. and Jennie
(Martin) Leavitt, was born October 13, 1871, at Scotland,
Conn. He was fitted for college in the public schools of
Willimantic. Before coming to New Haven he also cul-
tivated his musical talent, and for three or four years was
a member of an orchestra, frequently appearing as cornet
soloist. During his summer vacations while in college he

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was a member of orchestras at Watch Hill, R. I., and Ports-
mouth, N. H. The year before entering college he com-
posed an opera, "The Frogs of Windham," based on a
local tradition, which during his college course was pre-
sented under his direction in nearly all the cities and large
towns of Connecticut. His father, who was a teacher of
music in the public schools of Willimantic, trained the local
performers in each place and the son then conducted the
opera. In spite of these frequent necessary absences from
college he received a Junior and Senior appointment.

After graduation he continued his study of music under
Dr. Stoeckel, and received the degree of Bachelor of Music
in 1894, when that degree was first awarded.

The popularity of "The Frogs of Windham" induced
him during the fifteen years following graduation to com-
pose six other operas, all founded on local legends and
introducing Indian characters. He devoted a large part of
his time to producing these operas throughout New England
wherever he found available local talent. He wrote many
songs and published two books, "The Music of the Lakes"
and "Songs of Protest." Subsequently he nearly completed
a Biblical opera "Tea-Tephi."

. He directed historical pageants at Norwich and New
London, Conn., in commemoration of the settlement of
those places, and wrote the band music for the various
scenes.

In 1906 he was nominated on the Socialist ticket for
congressman-at-large from Connecticut and during the
last four years of his life edited Our Race Quarterly, a
magazine founded by Professor Charles A. L. Totten. He
became greatly interested in astronomy also.

Mr. Leavitt died of sarcoma at Putnam, Conn., November
19, 1912, at the age of 41 years. He was unmarried, and
the only survivor of his family is his aged father, his
mother having died about 1907.

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1894

John Mackintosh Ferguson, son of Edmund More-
wood and Josephine Elizabeth (Mackintosh) Ferguson,
was born February 15, 1873, at Uniontown, Pa. He
was prepared for college at the Shady Side Academy,
Pittsburgh.

After graduation he spent several years in travel in
Europe and Asia, and from 1901 to 1904 he was second
secretary to the United States Legation in Tokio. After
the death of his father and brother (a non-graduate mem-
ber of the Class of 1895 in the Sheffield Scientific School)
he resigned from the diplomatic service and made his home
with his mother.

He died of pneumonia at his home in Shady Side, Pitts-
burgh, May 9, 19 1 3. He was 40 years of age, and not
married. His mother and two sisters survive him.

1895

Joseph Bernard Hone, son of Alexander B. Hone, a
merchant, and Mary (Connelly) Hone, was born December
25, 1871, in Rochester, N. Y. He was fitted for college
at the Fort Hill School, Rochester, and entered Yale from
Rochester University. He was chairman of the Senior
Promenade Committee.

After graduation he spent three years in the Harvard
Law School, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws
in 1898. In the spring of that year, upon the outbreak
of the Spanish-American War, he enlisted in Battery A,
Massachusetts Light Infantry, but did not see active ser-
vice. He returned to Rochester to practice law and since
1899 had been in partnership with a brother, in the firm
of Hone & Hone. He was active in political life, and
had been a candidate for the state legislature, and in 1908
a delegate to the National Democratic Convention. By

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appointment of Governor Dix, he was a director of the
State Agricultural and Industrial School at Industry. He
was for two terms treasurer of the Rochester Bar Asso-
ciation, and in 1908 vice-president of the Yale Alumni
Association of Rochester.

Mr. Hone died of heart disease in Rochester, December
31, 1912, at the age of 41 years. He was not married.
His mother and four brothers survive him.

Tracy Peck, son of Tracy Peck, LL.D. (B.A. Yale
1 861) and Elizabeth Harriet (Hall) Peck, was born April
1, 1874, at Ithaca, N. Y., his father being Professor of
Latin there until 1880, and since then at Yale University.
He was prepared for college at the New Haven High
School.

Since graduation he had been connected with the Lincoln
Safe Deposit Company in New York City, and through
successive promotions was in charge of the security vault
department.

Mr. Peck died after an illness of only a few hours from
cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
January 29, 1913, in the 39th year of his age.

He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 25, 1899, Ethel,
daughter of Warren E. Hill and Priscilla (Southerland)
Hill. Their son died, but Mrs. Peck and their two daugh-
ters survive him. His sister is the wife of Rev. Wilfred
Asa Rowell (B.A. Beloit 1899), a graduate of the Yale
Divinity School in 1906.

1898

Thomas Mellon Evans, son of James Evans (B.A.
Washington and Jefferson 1861) and Rebecca Elizabeth
(Stotler) Evans, was born October 23, 1875, in Pittsburgh,
Pa. His middle name was that of his maternal great-
grandparents. The paternal family home had long been in

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McKeesport, Pa., where his father was president of the
National Bank of McKeesport. He was prepared for col-
lege at the Shadyside Academy, Pittsburgh, and joined the
class at the beginning of Sophomore year from Amherst
College.

After graduation he was a student of law in the Pitts-
burgh Law School and at home for two years, and was at
the same time treasurer of the Tempest Brick Co., of which
he afterward continued as manager. He was also in charge
of the Monongahela Manufacturing Co. from 1901 to 1908,
when the business was given up. In November, 1908, he
was appointed receiver of the Pittsburgh & Westmoreland
Railway Co., and during the last few years had been presi-
dent of the National Bank of McKeesport. He was also
a director of the Colonial Trust Co. of Pittsburgh. From
September, 1905, to September, 1906, he was traveling with
his wife in England and on the continent.

Mr. Evans died at Brigham Hospital, Boston, Mass.,
April 26, 1913, in the 38th year of his age. He was a mem-
ber of the Sixth Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh.

He married at Mossy Creek, Tenn., October 18, 1900,
Martha Scott Jarnagin (B.A. Vassar 1898), daughter of
Milton Preston Jarnagin, a lawyer and banker of that place.
She survives him with two children, his mother, and three
brothers, one of them a graduate of the Academical
Department in 1903.

George Prichard Stimson, son of Earl W Stimson, a
merchant, and Florence Prichard (Cummins) Stimson,
was born February 4, 1877, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and was
prepared for college at the Woodward and Franklin High
Schools in that city.

After graduation he entered the Cincinnati Law School,
and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1901. In
December, 1900, he was admitted to the Ohio bar. For a
year or more he was with Stephens & Lincoln, in 1902

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became connected with the firm of Kittredge & Wilby, and
since January, 1909, had been a member of the firm under
the name of Kittredge, Wilby & Stimson.

Mr. Stimson died suddenly of heart-failure at Cincinnati,
February 18, 1913, at the age of 36 years. He was a
member of the Second Presbyterian Church.

He married at the Church of the New Jerusalem in Cin-
cinnati, April 28, 1909, Clara Carlisle, daughter of Charles
Mendenhall, of that city, who survives him with an infant
son.

1899

Albert Joseph Mayer, son of Abraham and Rebecca
(Frank) Mayer, was born January 17, 1878, in New
Orleans, La. He was prepared for college at the Riverview
Military Academy, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

After graduation he entered the Medical Department of
Tulane University, received the degree of Doctor of Medi-
cine there in 1902, and since then had practiced his pro-
fession in his native city. He served two years as interne
in the Truro Infirmary, New Orleans, then went abroad and
during 1904 and 1905 devoted himself chiefly to the study
of pathology and gynecologic surgery in Berlin, Germany.
In December, 1906, he was elected a junior surgeon at the
Truro Infirmary with special charge of the out-door clinic,
and here he worked with enthusiasm and marked success to
the close of his life. His device for dropping ether and
chloroform with accuracy in anesthesia was described in
the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1906.
He also wrote in collaboration with his friend, Dr. Urban
Maes, an article on yellow fever for Crofton's "Clinical
Therapeutics," 1906.

Dr. Mayer died at his home in New Orleans, January
14, 191 1, of diabetes, which began after a severe attack of
yellow fever thirteen years before. He was in the 33d year

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of his age. A bronze tablet in his memory has been erected
by the medical staff of the Truro Infirmary in the waiting
room of the clinic which had been the center of his work
and interest.

He married January 22, 1908, Cora Lee, daughter of
Jacques and Florence (Newman) Trautman. She survives
him with a son.

1902

Louis Frederick Boder, son of Louis and Fannie
(Quimby) Boder, was born July 11, 1880, in Troy, Kans.
He was fitted for college at the St. Joseph (Mo.) High
School and Morgan Park (111.) Academy.

After graduation he was soon made cashier of the Bank
of Troy, and in 1907, on the death of his father, who was
president of the Merchants' Bank of St. Joseph, Mo., he
was appointed cashier of that bank, and later vice-president.
About 191 1 he went to Kansas City, Mo., to engage in
business, and died there at St. Joseph's Hospital, October
5, 1912, after an illness of three weeks from erysipelas
followed by pneumonia. He was 32 years of age, and un-
married. His mother and two brothers, one of them a
graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School in 1908, survive
him.

1903

Charles Arnold Brady, son of John Arnold Brady and
Jane Corcoran (Gordon) Brady, was born January 29,
1882, in Norwich, Conn. He was fitted for college at the
Norwich Free Academy.

After graduation he spent three months abroad, and then
entered the New York Law School, from which he
received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1905. Until
the following spring he was with the Lawyers Title Co.
of New York, and then began practice by himself.

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He had been depressed for some time and died in New-
York City by his own hand, January 2, 1913. He was in
his 31st year, and unmarried.

Arthur Channing Long, son of Fred Dwight Long,
of the firm of Long Brothers, grocers, was born April 8,
1882, in Sharon, Mass. His mother was Juliette Amelia
(Gooch) Long. He was prepared for college at the
Roxbury (Mass.) High School. While in college he
received special honors in the physical sciences.

After graduation from Yale he spent two years in the
study of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of
Science in 1905. For two years following he was engaged
in biological and mining chemistry, and since September,
1907, had been with the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder
Co., being for some time at the plant in Marquette, Mich.,
but later going to Wilmington, Del., where he died of
mastoid trouble, April 13, 1913. He was 31 years of
age, and unmarried. His parents and a brother and sister
survive him.

Arthur Manierre, third of the four sons of George
Manierre (B.A. Yale 1868), a trustee of the Field Museum
and the Newberry Library, and Ann Eliza (Edgerton)
Manierre, was born April 29, 1881, at Evanston, III. He
was fitted for college in the University School, Chicago.

After graduation he entered the car shops of the
Burlington & Missouri River Railroad. He took the entire
four-year course in shop work, finishing in one year and a
half. He afterwards spent a few months in the foundry
department of the Griffin Wheel Works and in the
Superintendent's office of the Pullman Co. He then
entered the manufacturing business, and seeing the need
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invented the Standard Cap and Seal, now so largely in use
in the United States and Canada. While engaged in
actively promoting this and other inventions, with marked
success, his life was brought to an untimely end in Chicago,
October 7, 1912. He was 31 years of age.

He married in Chicago, December 20, 1906, Frances
Eleanor Mason (B.A. Bryn Mawr 1905), daughter of
Henry Burrell Mason (B.A. Yale 1870) and Frances Fay
(Calhoun) Mason, who survives him, without children.
Three brothers, graduates of the -College in 1901, 1902 and
1907, respectively, and his parents are also living.

1906

Edward Samuel Payton, son of Philip A. and Annie
Maria (Rynes) Payton, was born September 19, 1882, in
Westfield, Mass., and was fitted for college in the High
School there. He joined the class at the beginning of
Sophomore year from the preceding class.

After graduation he went into the real estate business
with a brother in New York City, and with the exception
of about a year continued in that business, becoming
treasurer of the Philip A. Payton, Jr. Co. From March,
1908, to April, 1909, he was engaged in the advertising-
writing and agency mail-order business in Westfield. In
1909-10 he took a course in pedagogy in the New York
University.

Mr. Payton died at Saranac Lake, N. Y., June 23, 1912,
after an illness starting with pneumonia the previous
January. He was in his 30th year, and unmarried. A
brother (B.A. Yale 1900) died in 1902, but his mother, a
sister, and a brother survive him.

Alexander James Wood, son of Alexander W. Wood,
a tool maker, and Rose (Whitby) Wood, was born Sep-

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tember 25, 1885, at Branford, Conn. He was prepared
for college at the Branford High School. At his graduation
from college he had a High Oration stand.

After graduation he was continuously engaged in teach-
ing in his native state — the first two years in the Derby
High School, three years in the Gilbert School in Winsted,
and since then in the State Normal School in New Britain,
of which he was vice-principal and head of the science
department. He was president of the Teachers Club of
New Britain. He received the degree of Master of Arts
from Yale in 1910 for work in chemistry.

Mr. Wood died after an illness of two months at his
home in New Britain, January 26, 19 13, in the 28th year
of his age.

He married at Williamsett, Mass., June 28, 191 1,
Margaret Thompson Wells (B.A. Mt. Holyoke 1906),
daughter of Joseph Storer and Agnes (Thompson) Wells.
She survives him.

1907

Norman Alvah Leonard, son of John Little Leonard,
a florist, and Fannie Maria (Babcock) Leonard, was born
July 4, 1885, in Willimantic, Conn. He was prepared for
college in the Windham High School in Willimantic.

After graduation from the Academical Department he
spent a year as a member of the Senior class in the Shef-
field Scientific School studying mechanical engineering,
and received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1908.

The following autumn he became assistant to the general
superintendent of the West Penn Railways Co., at Con-
nellsville, Pa., and was later transferred to Pittsburgh as
assistant in the office of the operating manager of the
same company.

In July, 1909, his health obliged him to resign his posi-
tion and he spent two winters at Saranac Lake, N. Y., and

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then a year at Altadena, Cal. He died of tuberculosis at
his home in Willimantic, March 9, 1913. He was 2.7 years
of age, and not married. His parents, two brothers, and
a sister survive him.

1908

Eugene Delano, son of Eugene Delano (B.A. Williams
1866), a trustee of Williams College and a member of the
banking firm of Brown Brothers & Co. of New York, was
born February 26, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa. His mother
was Susan (Magoun) Adams. He was prepared for col-
lege at the Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., and graduated with
a Philosophical Oration appointment.

After graduation he took up banking, but later, on
account of ill health, engaged in farming at Tisdale,
Saskatchewan, Canada.

He died at Winnipeg, Manitoba, January 29, 1913. He
was in the 26th year of his age, and unmarried. He was
buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. He
was a member of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church,
New York City. His father, two brothers (B.A. Yale 1895
and 1898, respectively), and two sisters survive him.

Many of his relatives have been graduates of Yale,
including his great-grandfather, John Adams, LL.D.
(1795), Principal of Phillips Academy, Andover; his
grandfather, Rev. William Adams, D.D., LL.D. (1827),
President of Union Theological Seminary; an uncle,
Thatcher M. Adams (1858), and several cousins.

Wright Haffards Robertson, son of John T. and Alice
(Cheatham) Robertson, was born December 20, 1886, in
Fall River, Mass., where his father was a banker and
broker of the firm of G. M. Haffards & Co. He was
prepared for college at the Durfee High School in that city.

Since graduation he had been a clerk for Tucker,
Anthony & Co., bankers, in Boston, Mass. While upon his

1907-1909 475

vacation, he was swimming in the harbor at Westport,
Mass., August II, 1912, and was caught by the heavy
undertow and drowned. He was in the 26th year of his
age and unmarried. His father was barely saved from
drowning at the same time.

1909

William Whiting Borden, son of William Borden
(Univ. Berlin 1871), was born November 1, 1887, in Chi-
cago, 111. His father was a lawyer, who died in 1906. His
mother was Mary De Garmo (Whiting) Borden.

His college preparation was gained at the University,
Latin, and Manual Training Schools in Chicago, and the
Hill School, at Pottstown, Pa. The year before entering
college he made a tour of the world with Rev. Walter C.
Erdman (B.A. Princeton 1899), visiting the principal mis-
sion fields, and determined to devote his life to foreign
missionary service.

He was skillful in wrestling, boxing, and rowing, and
active in other sports. He was a member of the College
choir in Junior and Senior years, a member of the Senior
Council, and president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He
was a class deacon, and devoted much time to religious
work, leading Bible study and mission study classes, going
with deputations to the preparatory schools, and especially
engaging in the rescue work of the Yale Hope Mission,
which he established in his Sophomore year and largely
supported.

After graduation he entered Princeton Theological Sem-
inary, and finished his course there in May, 1912. Most
of the summer he spent in evangelistic work in New York
City, and September 21 was ordained to the ministry in the
Moody Church in Chicago. The following months he
acted as a traveling secretary of the Student Volunteer
Movement, and visited many of the Eastern colleges. He
was accepted as a candidate for service by the China Inland

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Mission, and at his own request was assigned to work
among the Mohammedans of China in the remote province
of Kansu.

He was president of the Yale Hope Mission, a director
of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago and of the National
Bible Institute, and a member of the North American
Council of the China Inland Mission.

In December, 1912, he left the United States for Cairo,
Egypt, for special study of Arabic and Moslem literature
under Dr. S. M. Zwemer, and was planning to take a short
course in medicine in London before starting for China.
On reaching Cairo he at first stayed at the English Young
Men's Christian Association, but in his eagerness to know
and talk with the Syrians he took quarters among them.
In March he contracted spinal meningitis, of which he died
two weeks later, April 9, 1913, in the 26th year of his age.
His mother, two sisters, one of whom graduated from
Vassar College in 1907, and a brother (B.A. Yale 1906),
survive him. Special services in his memory were held in
Cairo, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, New Haven, and
Princeton. His classmate Parry has written in his memory
a play called "The Flower of Assisi."

In his will, besides legacies to churches and missionary
societies, a large bequest was made to the China Inland
Missions, and a trust fund was left to the National Bible
Institute, of New York, to which also the property of the
Yale Hope Mission was given.

1910

Arthur Frederic Robinson, son of Thomas Arthur and
Frances Rebecca (Mather) Robinson, was born November
9, 1889, in Norwich, Conn. He was prepared for college
at the Norwich Free Academy.

After graduation he studied law two years in his native
city, — at first with Shields & Shields, his classmate's father

1909-1912 477

and brother, and then with Jeremiah J. Desmond. Since
then he had been in the executive offices of the Munson
Steamship Co. in New York City.

Mr. Robinson died after a five-days' illness from tonsilitis
in New York City, May 24, 19 13. He was in his 24th
year, and unmarried. His parents and a brother survive
him.

1912

Royden Wolcott Allen, only son of Charles Ira and
Jessica (Wolcott) Allen, was born September 8, 1891, at
Terryville, Conn. His grandfather, Deacon Rollin D. H.
Allen (B.A. Middlebury 1841), a former president of the
Eagle Lock Co., had much to do with the development of
manufacturing in the village. He was fitted for college at
the Bristol High School.

During his college course he made a special study of
English. He began studying the violoncello at a very early
age, and during his Junior and Senior years was a member
of the University Orchestra.

After graduation he went into business with his father
in the wood turning factory at Pequabuck, close by
Terryville.

In October, 1912, he underwent an operation for sar-
coma at Rochester, Minn., and on his return continued
in business until the last of January, when he went to New
York for treatment, but died three weeks after his return
to his home at Sylvan Hill, Terryville, March 15, 1913.
He was 21 years of age. His parents and three sisters
survive him.

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1865

James Gulick Birch, son of Samuel R. Birch, M.D.,
and Sarah (Chase) Birch, was born October 20, 1836, in
New York City. He attended school in Newburgh, N. Y.,
and before entering the Medical School worked on a farm
and taught school.

The year after his graduation from Yale he received
the same degree from the Harvard Medical School, and
then visited hospitals in England, Ireland, Scotland, and
France. On his return he was the physician in charge of
the New Haven Alms House, and on settling in Newburgh
was in charge of the Alms House there. He made a study
of malaria, and sent special treatment to many subjects
in India. He was instrumental in establishing St. Luke's
Hospital in Newburgh.

Dr. Birch died of cancer of the liver at his home in
Newburgh, February 1, 1913, in the 77th year of his age.
He was a vestryman of the Reformed Episcopal Church
of the Corner Stone.

He married at Newburgh, October 7, 1874, Jane E.
Sendow, who died before him. They had no children.
His brother, George Washington Birch (M.D. Yale 1858),
died in 1906.

1866

Seth Hill, son of Wakeman and Eunice (Lyon) Hill,
was born July 16, 1837, in Easton, Conn. After attending
Staples Academy there, he spent several years of teaching
and farm work, then gaining further preparation at a
school in Canandaigua, N. Y., he began the study of medi-
cine with the Drs. Nash in Bridgeport, Conn., and in 1864
entered the Medical School.

1865-1871 479

After graduation he practiced in Bethlehem, Conn., about
three years, and then for over forty years in Trumbull,
Conn., where his practice covered a wide territory.

He was long a member of the Fairfield County Medical
Association, and for a term its president. In 1895 he was
president of the Connecticut State Medical Society. In 1881
he was a member of the state legislature. He was deeply
interested in the organization of the Bridgeport General
Hospital, and was a speaker at its dedication. For a long
period he was a trustee of Staples Academy.

A heart difficulty, developed by a severe attack of grip
some years earlier, and an internal cancerous growth caused
Dr. Hill's death, February 5, 1912, at the Bridgeport Hos-
pital, where he had been for three weeks. He was in the
75th year of his age. For many years he was warden of
Christ Church, in Tashua, a district in Trumbull.

He married in 1869 Phoebe Dayton of Canandaigua, who
died less than a year later. In 1872 he married Mary
Frances Nichols of Trumbull. Their only child — a son —
died at birth. Mrs. Hill survives him and a sister of his is
also living.

1871

Norman Brigham Bayley, son of Joshua and Andalusia
(Merrick) Bayley, was born September 17, 1847, at
Mansfield, Conn. In 1863 the family moved to Coventry,
where he studied with private teachers.

After graduation he spent a year as interne in the New
Haven Hospital, and practiced his profession at Brewster,
N. Y., for ten years. He then took post-graduate courses
at the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital,
and was at the Eye and Ear Infirmary in New York City
from 1880 to 1884, also in the out-patient department of
Bellevue Hospital. Since 1884 he had practiced in Haver-
straw, N. Y., making a specialty of diseases of the nose,

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ear, and throat. He was health officer and sewer com-
missioner, and had been secretary and president of the
Rockland County Medical Association. He also rendered
valuable service to the Haverstraw Public Library as
trustee, and was active in all matters that tended to elevate
the community.

Dr. Bayley died of heart disease at his home in Haver-
straw, February 27, 1913, at the age of 65 years.

He married at Preakness, N. J., January 10, 1872,
Margarette, daughter of Jacob and Ann Maria (Wana-
maker) Hemion, of Suffern, N. Y., and had two sons,
both of whom died of diphtheria in 1878. Mrs. Bayley
survives him.

Dr. Bayley left all his property, at the expiration of a
life use, to the Yale Medical School, to be used for the
purposes deemed by the Faculty most beneficial.

1907

Frank William Thompson, son of William Henry and
Marion (Johnson) Thompson, was born July 19, 1883, in
Waterbury, Conn. He entered the Medical School from
the Waterbury High School.

In December, 1908, he was admitted to the United States
Navy and after the earthquake at Messina was assigned
by the United State government to the charge of the medical
stores of the relief ship Celtic. For his services in behalf
of the sufferers a medal from the Italian Red Cross Society
was officially presented to him through the United States
Government. In October, 1909, he was transferred from
the Celtic to the Naval Medical School in Washington,
D. C, where he remained till the following April, and was
then on recruiting duty in Kansas City, Mo., until Novem-
ber, 1910. From that time until his death he was surgeon
on the torpedo-practice ship Montgomery.

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While at Newport, R. L, he died suddenly of pneumonia
at the Naval Hospital, May 30, 19 13, in the 30th year of
his age.

He married July 29, 1903, May, daughter of William
and Marion (McGregor) Disley, who survives him with
two sons.

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1852

Frederick Salmon Giddings, son of Rev. Salmon
Giddings (B.A. Williams 181 1) and Almira (Collins)
Giddings, was born November 11, 1827, in St. Louis, Mo.
His father, a home missionary in Missouri, and the founder
and first pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of St.
Louis, died in* 1828.

After graduation from Illinois College in 1847 he entered
the Yale Law School. After receiving his law degree here
he practiced law in St. Louis, Mo., then in Quincy, 111.,
where he was also editor of the Quincy Whig, until 1882.
In that year he removed to Madison, Wise, where he had
since lived in retirement.

Mr. Giddings died from the infirmities of age at his
home in Madison, December 2, 1912, at the age of 85 years.

He married at Wilkes-Barre, September 9, 1852, Hattie
E. Baker, a graduate of Mount Holyoke in 1851, daughter
of John O. and Frances (Fabian) Baker, both of whom
had formerly lived in Liberty County, Ga. She survives
him with three sons and one daughter.

1866

Richard Handy Chittenden, one of the seven children
of Rev. Albert Cornelius and Patience Lavinia (Jones)
Chittenden, was born May 17, 1836, at Westbrook, Conn.
He took his preparatory course at Williston Seminary, East-
hampton, Mass., and Fort Edward Institute, N. Y., and
then taught in district schools for four years before entering
the Law School in 1857.

He completed his course in 1859 an<^ was admitted to
the New Haven bar in October of that year, then went at

1852-1866 483

once to Heidelberg, Germany, where he studied civil law.
On his return to the United States he was admitted to the
New York bar, and opened an office, but soon enlisted as a
private in the Seventy-first New York Regiment for three
months, and was in the first battle of Bull Run. Then he
organized Company E, First Regiment of Wisconsin
Cavalry, of which he was captain until compelled to resign
on account of asthma and malaria. After this in Minnesota
he was acting major of the force that relieved Fort Ridgely
from siege by Sioux Indians, and later was admitted to
the bar at St. Paul. In the fall of 1863 he returned to
New York City and was engaged in the practice of law
there and in Brooklyn for twenty years. In 1866 he received
the degree of Bachelor of Laws from Yale.

On account of trouble from asthma he sought change of
climate, first at Santa Barbara, Cal., where he practiced
law, then at Boulder, Colo., where he lived alone in a
cabin at an elevation of nine thousand feet, and afterwards
at Urbita Village, Cal.

He was an abolitionist, and during the Presidential cam-
paigns of 1856, i860, and 1864, made many speeches in
behalf of Fremont and Lincoln. He organized a Reform
Club in 1870, and from 1873 to 1876 was secretary of the
Brooklyn Committee of Fifty.

Besides his speeches he published many legal astronom-
ical and mathematical articles, including a pamphlet on
squaring the circle called "The Nearest Approximation,"
also poems, translations, and a novel, "The Owls of the
Always Open." He was a fine linguist, speaking seven
languages.

Mr. Chittenden died at a hospital in New York City,
November 15, 191 1, at the age of 75 years, and was buried
in Westbrook, Conn.

He married at Milford, Conn., November 14, 1861, Lucy
Lee Brace, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Brace, D.D. (B.A.
Amherst 1831) and Sarah Elizabeth (Finch) Brace. Mrs.

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Chittenden and their two sons, Richard Percy (B.A. Har-
vard 1888) and Jonathan Brace (B.A. Harvard 1889), sur-
vive him. Two of his brothers, Rev. Albert Jerome
Chittenden and Rev. Ezra Porter Chittenden, graduated
from Ripon College in 1868 and 1874, respectively, and
another, Lieutenant Newton Henry Chittenden, received the
degree of Bachelor of Laws from Columbia University in
1888.

1872

William Grece, son of Philip William Grece, a French
cavalry officer, and Katurka (Grenarde) Grece, was born
at Besangon, France, February 1, 1841.

After preparation at the Gymnasium at Wiesbaden, Ger-
many, he took the scientific course in the Royal Julius-
Maximilian University at Wiirzburg, Bavaria, receiving the
degree of Bachelor of Philosophy there in 1869. He served
in the Engineering Department of the Austrian army.

Coming to the United States, he entered the Law School
as a member of the Senior class, and after graduation settled
in the practice of his profession in Jersey City, N. J. From
1882 to 1886 he was civil service commissioner in the Post
Office Department there. He was a Republican, but never
held any political office.

Mr. Grece died in Jersey City, July 31, 19 12, at the age
of 71 years.

He married at Bound Brook, N. J., August 15, 1873,
Magdalena, daughter of Philip Eder. She survives him
with six of their nine children, — five sons and a daughter.

He was a member of the Roman Catholic Church of St.
Nicholas, of which he had been a trustee since i<

1876

Eugene Benjamin Peck, son of David Curtis and Mary
(Trimble) Peck, was born May 4, 1854, at Woodbury,

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Conn. He took his preparatory course at the Hudson River
Institute, Claverack, N. Y.

After his graduation from the Law School he was for
some time the New England representative of the Inter-
national Paper Co., but since 1901 had practiced his
profession at Bridgeport, Conn., and was also active in
Democratic politics. He was United States Commissioner
at Bridgeport from about 1904 to 1908. In 1906 he was
the candidate for the office of state controller on the
Democratic ticket.

Mr. Peck died at the Bridgeport Hospital, April 27,
1913, after an operation for appendicitis. He had suffered
several years from kidney trouble. He was in the 59th
year of his age. He was a member of St. John's Protestant
Episcopal Church.

He married in Bridgeport, October 11, 1876, Mary Beach
Curtis, daughter of Carlos Curtis, former mayor of Bridge-
port, and Jane (Smith) Curtis. She survives him with
twin sons, one of whom received the degree of Bachelor of
Arts from Trinity College in 1901. A brother, Luther O.
Peck, is a member of the state senate.

1892

John Mansfield Douglas, son of Hon. John Mans-
field and Ellen (Andrews) Douglas, was born May 23,
1872, in Middletown, Conn. His grandfather, Hon. Ben-
jamin Douglas, was mayor of Middletown and lieutenant-
governor of Connecticut, and founder of the pump
manufacturing business of W. & B. Douglas in Middletown.

He took his preparatory course in the Riverview Military
Academy, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and then entered the Law
School.

After graduation he practiced law in Middletown for
a number of years, and since then in New York City,

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being also a member of the firm of W. & B. Douglas. His
home had been in Brooklyn. N. Y., for several years.

Mr. Douglas died of pneumonia at a private sanitarium
in New York City, February 29, 191 2, in the 40th year
of his age. He was unmarried, and was the last member
of his immediate family.

i895

John Adam Bellis, son of Asa Brown Bellis and Ellen
(McManus) Bellis, was born September 25, 1874, at
Gloversville, N. Y. He took his preparatory course at
Holbrook's Military School at Ossining, N. Y.

After graduation he continued his law studies in Glovers-
ville and New York City, and began the practice of his
profession in Gloversville, but on account of failing health
went into business at Phcenix, Ariz., and later in Denver
and Norwood, Colo. After six years in the West he
returned to New York State, and became manager of the
Empire Knitting Company of Fonda, continuing there until
his death, November 5, 191 1. He was 37 years of age.
He was a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

He married at Denver, Colo., April 29, 1903, Ella,
daughter of Dr. James P. Campbell of Newark, N. J., who
survives him. They had no children. His father, mother,
two sisters, and a brother are also living.

Melville Bascom Mendell, son of David and Emeline
(Hill) Mendell, was born January 31, 1872, near Peoria,
Peoria County, 111. He was prepared for college at the
high school, Russell, Kans., and was a student in the
University of Kansas for three years.

After his graduation from the Yale Law School he
practiced his profession in New York City.

Mr. Mendell married in New York City, in 1896, Lillian,
daughter of Henry and Mary (Martin) Hassemer, and
had two sons and a daughter.

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He lost his life in a vain attempt to rescue his daughter
from their burning home at Woodside, L. L, N. Y., Decem-
ber 7, 1912. He was 40 years of age. Mrs. Mendell and
the sons escaped.

1897

William Vincent Robbins, son of Peter and Mary
Jean (Higgins) Robbins, was born June 8, 1869, m Dundee,
Scotland, and obtained his preparatory training at Smyllum
Park, Lanark, in that country. Both his parents died dur-
ing his early childhood. He entered the Yale Law School in
December, 1895.

During the Spanish-American War he served as sergeant
in Company M, First Regiment, United States Volunteer
Engineers, under General Miles, through the Porto Rican
campaign. Afterward he settled in the practice of law at
Ponce, and in 1902 was appointed United States commis-
sioner for that district, but had recently been practicing in
Norfolk, Va., and New York City. In Ponce he was a
vestryman of Holy Trinity Church.

He married at San Juan, P. R., November 15, 1901,
Zillah Jane, daughter of Henry Levy, a merchant of New
York City, and had one son (deceased).

Mr. Robbins died by his own hand in New York City,
April 23, 19 1 3, in the 44th year of his age. Mrs. Robbins
survives him.

1900

William Vincent Devitt, son of Thomas Devitt, a
retired grocer, was born May 15, 1877, in Bridgeport,
Conn., and studied in the Bridgeport High School. He
entered the Law School in Senior year.

After graduation at New Haven he continued his law
studies in the Columbia Law School, then served as clerk

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in the Bridgeport probate court under Judge Edward P.
Nobbs, and since then had been a member of the law firm
of Nobbs & Devitt. He was active in Republican local
politics.

Mr. Devitt died at his home in Bridgeport, October n,
1912. His health had been failing for some time. He was
35 years of age. His wife survives him.

1904

Benjamin Fleming Hill, son of Rev. Isaac Hill, a
Methodist clergyman, was born December 9, 1874, at
Hamilton, Mo. His mother was Mary Helen (Gilham)
Hill.

He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Colo-
rado College in 1893, and that of Master of Arts there in
1898.

He was a member of the Yale Law School only in Senior
year, but during this time was on the board of editors of
the Yale Law Journal. He entered from Denver, Colo.

After graduation he was for a short time in New York
City, then practiced law in Johnstown, Weld County, Colo.,
but upon the founding of Milliken in the same county,
settled there, in the general practice of his profession, and
was city attorney until his death.

Mr. Hill died suddenly from heart disease, November
23, 1912, at Mclndoo ranch, five miles from Milliken, as
he was returning from an automobile trip to Greeley, Colo.
He was in the 38th year of his age.

He married in Denver, March 9, 1903, Marie Louise,
daughter of August and Anna Pauline (Tailor) Kluge,
who survives him with two sons. Two brothers are also
living, one of them Rev. Edward Yates Hill, D.D. (B.A.
Baker University 1891), pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Philadelphia, Pa.

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1910

Meyer Merwin Shapiro, son of Barnet and Esther
Martha (Spitz) Shapiro, was born January 1, 1889, in
New York City, but the family afterward lived in Bridge-
port, Conn., and New Haven. His father was a native
of Russia, but died in New Haven in 1902. He gained
his preparatory schooling in the New Haven High School.
In his Senior year in the Law School he won the Mont-
gomery Prize for the best examination.

After graduation he went to Bridgeport to enter the
law firm of Shapiro & Shapiro, with his brothers Charles
H. and Joseph G. Shapiro (LL.B. Yale 1903 and 1907,
respectively), and after being in practice about a month
he suffered a physical breakdown, from which he did not
recover. He died in Bridgeport, January 28, 1913. He
was 24 years of age, and unmarried. His mother, three
brothers, and a sister survive him.

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i854

David Ball Parsons, son of Seth and Sally Parsons,
was born June 9, 1832, at Hoosick Falls, N. Y., where
his father, an inventor and manufacturer of machines, was
the first president of the village, also representing it in
the New York Legislature.

His father died when he was about fourteen years old,
at seventeen he was a sailor, and later learned the iron
trade at Hoosick Falls. After preparation at Ball Seminary
there he studied in Brown University in 1851-52, then took
the Civil Engineering course in the Sheffield Scientific
School, also acting as an assistant in field work.

During the fall and winter following graduation he was
draughtsman in the New York State Engineer's office, and
was then levelman on the preliminary survey of the
Dubuque Western Railroad.

During the autumn of 1856 he laid out the town of
Waterville, Minn., and was agent of the Town Site Com-
pany there. After three years he went to England for
the Walter A. Wood Mowing and Reaping Machine Com-
pany, but the next year removed to Marseilles, France,
and engaged in the general machinery business. From
there he traveled widely in Europe and northern Africa,
then lived in Madrid, Spain, twenty-four years, where he
built up a large trade in machinery. Returning to Water-
ville, Minn., he invested in a town site, which subsequently
so depreciated in value that he lost nearly all his savings.
He then removed to Minneapolis, where he engaged in
teaching Spanish and French.

Mr. Parsons died at Minneapolis, July 13, 191 1, at the
age of 79 years.

He married in London, England, April 1, 1875, Esther
Eliza, daughter of Thomas Bayley, of Kendal, England,

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manager of the freight department of the London & North-
western Railway at Lancaster, and had three daughters,
all born in Madrid, Spain. They, with Mrs. Parsons,
survive him.

1861

Oscar Dana Allen, son of Alpheus and Hannah (Sea-
bury) Allen, was born February 24, 1836, at Hebron, Me.
His grandfather, Abel Allen, was one of the first settlers
of Auburn, Me., going there from Bridgewater, Mass.
He was fitted at the Hebron Academy for the Sheffield
Scientific School, where he took the course in Chemistry.

After graduation he continued his study in the Scientific
School three years, and was at the same time assistant in
Chemistry.

In 1870 he returned to Yale as Instructor in Analytical
Chemistry, received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in
187 1, was appointed Professor of Metallurgy the same year,
and three years later Professor of Analytical Chemistry
also. These positions he resigned in 1887 owing to pro-
longed illness following a sunstroke. For four years he lived
in California, and since then on the southwestern slope of
Mount Rainier, Washington, near Ashford. While at Yale
in collaboration with Professor Samuel W. Johnson (Hon.
M.A. Yale 1857) he greatly advanced the knowledge of the
element caesium, and made the first accurate determination
of its atomic weight. He edited an American edition of
Fresenius's Quantitative Analysis, and modernized its
nomenclature. In mineralogy he made a notable collection.
He was also distinguished as a botanist, and after his retire-
ment made the flora of the region of Mount Rainier famous
by his explorations in that field. In addition to this varied
work in natural science he was a linguist interested in
studying even little known languages.

Professor Allen died at his home near Ashford, February
19, 1913, at the age of nearly jj years.

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He married at Clinton, Me., December 17, 1861, Fidelia,
daughter of John Totman, and had three sons, of whom
the two elder graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School
in 1883 and 1885, respectively. All, with Mrs. Allen,
survive him.

1865

Harry Rogers, son of Charles H. and Julia (Thomas)
Rogers, was born May 6, 1845, in Philadelphia, Pa. After
preparation in the private school of William FewSmith
(B.A. Yale 1844), he took the General course in the
Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he entered as a clerk the Tradesmen's
National Bank in Philadelphia, of which his father was the
founder. He was successively promoted and from 1885 to
1894 was vice-president. He retired from active duty in
1896, but continued as a director of the institution. Since
1893 he had been a trustee of the Penn Mutual Life
Insurance Co., and was chairman of the committee on
accounts.

Mr. Rogers died of heart trouble at his home in Phila-
delphia, May 2, 191 3, in the 68th year of his age. He was
buried in Meadville, Pa.

He married in Philadelphia, September 26, 1896, Sophia
L. Selden, who survives him.

1869

Joseph Robinson Folsom, eldest of the four sons and
five children of Rev. George DeForest Folsom (B.A. Yale
1845) and Susan Benjamin (Curtis) Folsom, was born
June 12, 1848, in New York City, while his father was
taking a course in Union Theological Seminary. In 1861
the family moved to Fair Haven, Conn., where his father
was pastor of the First (now Grand Avenue) Congrega-
tional Church.

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After four years of study in the Hopkins Grammar
School in New Haven, and a year elsewhere, he took the
course in Mining and Chemistry in the Sheffield Scientific
School.

In 1872 he visited Europe with his father, and since
1879 the family had resided in California. From about
1876 to 1885 he was connected with the G. P. Putnam's
Sons, publishers, in New York City, and since then he had
been in no regular occupation. His father died in 1895
after an illness of ten years, and his mother in 1890.

He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 9, 1893,
Agnes, daughter of William H. Shearman of Salt Lake
City, Utah.

In 1904 and 1905 he traveled in Europe, but since then
had suffered from hardening of the arteries. He died at
Berkeley, Cal., August 13, 191 1, at the age of 63 years.
Mrs. Folsom survives him without children.

One brother, a non-graduate member of the Sheffield
Scientific School, died in 1905, and another brother, who
received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1881, is
living.

1870

Daniel Seymour Brinsmade, son of Captain Daniel
Styles and Catherine (Mallette) Brinsmade, was born
February 17, 1845, at Trumbull, Conn. He was fitted for
college at the Gunnery School, Washington, Conn., and
took the Engineering course in the Sheffield Scientific
School.

Immediately after graduation he became assistant engi-
neer on the construction by the Ousatonic Water Power
Co. of a dam across the Housatonic River, furnishing
water power for Derby and Shelton, Conn. In the fall
of 1870 he was made chief engineer of the same company,
treasurer in 1871, and since 1900 had been its president.
In 1891 he rebuilt this dam. He had charge of laying out

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the borough of Shelton and its sewer and water systems,
and was identified with many of the enterprises of Shelton
and Derby, resulting from the development of the water
power there. He was vice-president of the Home Trust
Co., and a director of the Birmingham National Bank and
of several manufacturing companies.

For thirty years he was a member of the Huntington
board of education and much of the time its president,
was president of the board of directors of the Plumb
Memorial Library of Shelton, treasurer of the town of
Huntington, and a member of the Connecticut House of
Representatives in 1882, and of the Senate in 1909.

Mr. Brinsmade died after a long illness from ulcers
in the stomach, at his home in Shelton, September 7, 19 12,
at the age of 67 years. He was a member of the Second
Congregational Church of Derby.

He married at Trumbull, December 28, 1870, Janette
S., daughter of Dr. John H. and Sarah Caroline (Edwards)
Pardee. She survives him with two sons (Ph.B. 1896 and
1908, respectively) and two of their three daughters. The
eldest daughter, wife of Clifford C. Gilbert (LL.B. Yale
1896), died in 1912.

Dorr Clark, son of Norris Greenleaf Clark, a physician
of Batavia, N. Y., and Grace Hubbard (Plumb) Clark, was
born March 9, 1849, m Clarkson, N. Y. He was fitted for
the Sheffield Scientific School at the Collegiate and Com-
mercial Institute of General William H. Russell (B.A. Yale
1833). He took the Engineering course.

After graduation he had for twenty-five years cattle
ranches in Texas and Montana, and was then a farmer in
Virginia. After his retirement he resided at Green Bay,
Wise, where he died November 11, 1912, at the age of
63 years.

He married at Green Bay, May 4, 1875, Allie C,
daughter of Albert C. Robinson, a newspaper editor. She

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survives him with two daughters, one of them a graduate
of Bryn Mawr College in 1902. A brother is also a grad-
uate of the Sheffield Scientific School in the class of 1875.

1872

Robert Douglas [Millholland] Maxwell, son of
William Davy Maxwell, a printer, and Lydia E. (Millhol-
land) Maxwell, was born July 12, 1852, in Baltimore, Md.
His father moved to Wilmington, Del., where he was pre-
pared for college at the Taylor Academy. He took the
Select course in the Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he studied law a year in the Harvard
Law School, and in September, 1875, began practice in
Philadelphia, devoting most of his time to the settlement
of estates.

For some time he had suffered from Bright's disease,
which was aggravated by pneumonia in the fall in 191 1.
He was obliged to relinquish his large practice in conse-
quence the following spring, and died at his home in
Germantown, Philadelphia, June 13, 1912. He was in the
60th year of his age.

He married in Philadelphia, April 25, 1882, Cora E.,
daughter of George K. Ziegler, a merchant and bank presi-
dent, and Elizabeth C. (Kuemerlen) Ziegler, and sister of
Harry Degen Ziegler (Ph.B. Yale 1871). She survives
him with one son (B.A. Yale 1912), and a daughter (B.A.
Wellesley 1907). Their two elder sons are deceased.

1874

Hagop Alexander Bezjian, last surviving of the four
children of Nerses Hagop Bezjian, a weaver of Aintab,
Turkey, and Jcohar Movses (Injeh) Bezjian, was born in
Aintab, April 19, 1837. At first a Gregorian Armenian,
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was sent by the missionaries of the American Board to the
Bebek Seminary in Constantinople, where he was under
the instruction and influence of Rev. Dr. Cyrus Hamlin
(B.A. Bowdoin 1834) until his graduation in 1856. He
then returned to the Theological Seminary established by
the missionaries at Aintab to teach sciences. On the
removal of the school to Marash he continued his work
there until 1872. He was one of the originators of the
idea of a college in Aintab, and in order to fit himself to
teach in the Central Turkey College, which was about to
be started there by the Central Turkey Mission and the
Cilicia Union of Evangelical Churches, at great personal
sacrifice he came to the United States and entered the
Sheffield Scientific School, specializing in chemistry, physics,
and geology.

After graduation he became the first professor of
physical science in the preparatory department of Central
Turkey College, and remained there nearly forty years,
being also a director and member of the board of man-
agers. By many short trips in Asia Minor he had gained
a general knowledge of the geological formations and
physical geography of the country. He prepared two
Armeno-Turkish Readers for common schools — in 1865-66,
a series of twenty articles on plant life which were pub-
lished by the American Bible House at Constantinople in
the Armeno-Turkish paper, Avedaper, and an English
Grammar on the Ollendorff system. In 1896 he published
"Elements of Physics," in the Armenian and Turkish
languages. His influence as a lecturer and writer was ele-
vating and helpful. At the celebration of the fiftieth anni-
versary of his teaching by the alumni of Central Turkey
College in 1906, he read a paper on his educational work
for the half century.

He was for fifty years a member of the Second Congre-
gational Church in Aintab, had been a teacher in its
Sunday school since 1856, and for years one of its deacons.

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During the last week of his life Professor Bezjian was
in his classroom and laboratory, and on Sunday attended
the regular church services, conducted the adult depart-
ment of the Sunday school, presided at meetings of the
church committee, and as usual was the central figure in
every gathering where he was present. He was regarded
by the missionaries as the strongest man among the Protes-
tant Armenians of Turkey. He died of hardening of the
arteries at his home in Aintab, February 10, 1913, in the
76th year of his age.

He married in Aintab, January 14, 1861, Mariam
Dayiyan, daughter of Kaba Dayi Harootune, and had five
sons and four daughters, of whom two sons and two daugh-
ters have died. Three of the sons graduated from Central
Turkey College, respectively in 1880, 1887, and 1897, and
the youngest son was a member of the same college and
for some time a clerk to the college president. Two of the
daughters graduated from the Girls Seminary in Aintab,
and two from the Girls College in Marash. The eldest
son also received the degree of Bachelor of Laws at the
University of Paris in 1890, and is Professor of History
and French in Central Turkey College. The second son
also graduated at the Syrian Protestant College as a
pharmacist in 1893.

William Spencer Pratt, son of William James Pratt,
was born in New Haven, Conn., August 25, 1849. His
father was a contractor and builder and died in New
Haven in 1905. His mother was Charlotte Ellen (Kim-
ball) Pratt, who died in April, 1883. After attending the
schools of John E. Lovell, General William H. Russell
(B.A. Yale 1833) and Stiles E. French in New Haven, he
took the Civil Engineering course in the Sheffield Scientific
School.

Upon graduation he went to Colorado as a civil engi-
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the mining business in Salt Lake City. About 1884 he
became city engineer in Socorro, N. Mex. From about
1887 he was in the railway service for twenty years, being
stationed at Deming and Rincon, N. Mex., and from
1896 to 1907 at Prescott, Ariz., except during the year
1904, when he was in Salt Lake City. Since 1907 he had
been an accountant for the Arizona Brewing Co., at
Prescott, where he died of acute indigestion at his home,
August 24, 191 1, in the 62d year of his age. He was a
vestryman of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church at
Prescott.

He married at Socorro, N. Mex., April 2, 1882, Mary
Ellen, daughter of William and Eliza (Spearing) Rodgers
of Bellefonte, Pa., and had a son and daughter.

Simeon Harrison Wagner, son of Daniel Wilson
Wagner, a farmer and manufacturer in Litchfield, Conn.,
and Melinda L. (Harrison) Wagner, was born June 18,
1849, in Litchfield, and spent his boyhood there. He
went to Washington, D. C, and studied in Columbian
(now George Washington) University, and then, after a
year in the Hopkins Grammar School, took the Civil Engin-
eering course in the Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he entered the Yale Law School, re-
ceived the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1876, and since
then had practiced his profession in New Haven, making
a specialty of corporation law. He was largely interested
in the development of the electric railways in New Haven
and elsewhere. In 1892 he formed a partnership with
Hon. Thomas M. Waller (Hon. M.A. Yale 1883), former
governor of Connecticut, under the name of Waller &
Wagner, which continued until 1904. Afterward he prac-
ticed alone, having an office also in New York City.

Mr. Wagner died at the New Haven Hospital, June 17,
1912, after an illness of several weeks from anemia. He

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was in the 63d year of his age. He was a member of the
West Haven Congregational Church.

He married in New York City, October 16, 1873, Estellah
Sophia, daughter of Paschal and Annah Sophia (Grow)
Converse, and aunt of George F. Converse (M.D. Yale
1887). She survives him with a son (Ph.B. Yale 1895).
His mother is also living.

1876

Frank Augustus Terry, son of Rev. James Pease
Terry (B.A. Amherst 1834) and Catharine Ann (Matson)
Terry, was born July 28, 1855, in South Weymouth, Mass.,
where his father was pastor of the Second Congregational
Church from 1848 to 1870. His parents then moved to his
mother's old home at Lyme, Conn., where he was prepared
for college at the academy. He took the Chemical course
in the Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he spent two years in the Graduate
Department of Harvard University, and was then an analyt-
ical chemist in Boston in the firm of Lawrie & Terry, and a
public chemist in that city and New York City until 1884.
For the next seven years he was in charge of sugar planta-
tions in Cuba and later in Louisiana for E. F. Atkins.
Since 1900 he had had a laboratory in Philadelphia and had
been connected as chemist with sugar refineries there.

He died of tuberculosis at White Haven, Pa., March
30, 191 3, in the 58th year of his age. The burial was in
Lyme, Conn. He was not married. Four brothers grad-
uated from Amherst College, respectively in 1867, 1868,
1871, and 1879, three of whom survive him.

1883

Albert William Robert, son of Albert Kidder Jones,
a naval officer in the Civil War, and Marsena (Nelson)

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Jones, was born January 18, 1864, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
His father died in 1873, and since 1875 he had borne the
name of his stepfather, Frederick Robert, son of Chris-
topher Rhinelander Robert, who founded Robert College
in Constantinople. He was fitted for college at Phillips
Academy, Andover, and Williston Seminary, Easthampton,
Mass., and took the Chemical course in the Sheffield Sci-
entific School. In Junior and Senior years he was one of
the editors of the Yale News.

After graduation he traveled extensively, and spent some
time in study at the universities of Strassburg, Bonn, and
Berlin. After several years in the West, he lived for about
eight years at Palm Beach, Fla., where he bought for
Mr. H. M. Flagler the sites of his hotels and of the town
of West Palm Beach, and was the agent in Dade County
for the sale of the lands of the East Coast Railway, the
Florida East Coast Canal Co. and allied interests, and at
the same time carried on a real estate business of his own.

In 1899 he began a special two-year course in archi-
tecture at Cornell University, and then continued his
studies in Rome and in the Atelier Pascal in Paris. In 1910
and 191 1 he was consul at Algiers.

Mr. Robert died, February 18, 1913, after an illness of
fifteen months from a nervous breakdown, at the Marshall
Sanitarium, Troy, N. Y. He was 49 years of age, and
unmarried. The funeral service was held at St. John's
Church, Troy, but the burial was in Mount Olivet Cemetery,
Maspeth, L. I. His mother survives him.

Charles Lansing Sayre, son of Charles H. and Nora
(Guinguigner) Sayre, was born December 2, 1 861, in Utica,
N. Y., where his father was a merchant. He was educated
in the schools of that city, and took the Chemical course
in the Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he was for eight or ten years in the
hardware business in Utica, and then in the insurance busi-

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ness in Cincinnati, Ohio, residing at Walnut Hills and
Mount Washington. In 191 1 he moved to San Bernardino,
Cal.

He died at Los Angeles, Cal., December 17, 1912, at the
age of 51 years. He was buried in Utica.

He married February 23, 1887, Amanda Glenn, daughter
of James P. and Elizabeth (Newell) Lytle, of Cincinnati,
Ohio. She survives him with a son. A sister married
Professor Samuel B. Platner, Ph.D. (B.A. Yale 1883).

1886

Joseph Osterman Dyer, son of Isadore and Amelia
(Lewis) Dyer, was born January 17, 1864, at Galveston,
Texas. After preparatory study in Phillips Academy,
Exeter, N. H., he took the Chemistry course in the Shef-
field Scientific School.

After graduation he studied law in Tulane University,
from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws
in 1890. He also studied medicine in Columbia University
and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1898.
He did not engage in active practice, but resided in Gal-
veston, engaged in looking after his personal interests.

He died of apoplexy at New Orleans, La., August 30,
191 2, at the age of 48 years, and was buried in Galveston.
He was not married. A brother (Ph.B. Yale 1887) is a
physician in New Orleans.

1887

Grayson Guthrie Knapp, son of John Newcomb Knapp
and Jane Elizabeth (Shumway) Knapp, was born Decem-
ber 20, 1865, in Auburn, N. Y. His father was postmaster,
quartermaster-general under the first Governor Dix, chair-
man of the executive committee of the Republican State
Committee, and for many years previous to his death

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secretary of the American Express Co. His father died
in 1893, and his mother in 191 1.

After preparation at the Auburn High School and
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., he took the Chemistry
course in the Sheffield Scientific School, and upon gradua-
tion was employed in the Pratt and Letchworth Iron
Works in Buffalo, N. Y., for several years. He was for
seven years a corporal in the Third New York Infantry,
Company M.

During the last ten years or more, he had not been in
active business, but resided in Auburn, where he died at
the Auburn City Hospital, October 3, 19 12. He was in
his 47th year, and not married. He was a member of the
Episcopal Church. A sister, Mrs. Jessie Knapp Gates, of
Auburn, is his only near relative surviving.

1893

Morris Hugus Beall, son of Robert Brooke Beall, a
merchant of Omaha, Nebr., was born in that city May 7,
1 87 1. His mother was Ellen Sarah (Hugus) Beall. He
was fitted for the Sheffield Scientific School at the Omaha
High School, and took the Select course. He was a mem-
ber of the University Baseball Nine during his three years
at Yale.

After graduation he studied in the New York Law
School, received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1895,
was managing clerk for Carter, Hughes & Dwight in New
York City, later was a member of the firm of Pressprich,
Beall & Smith, and then except during the years 1908 to
1910, when he was associated with Hon. James Oliver, he
practiced by himself.

Mr. Beall was killed by a fall from a window of his office
in New York City, January 29, 1913. He was in the 42d
year of his age.

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He married in New York City, June 19, 1907, Rachel,
daughter of William A. and Amy B. (Allerton) Hustace,
who survives him with a daughter.

1894

William Morris Weller, son of Joseph M. Weller, a
dentist, and Annie L. (Shriver) Weller, was born January
30, 1872, at Westminster, Md. After preparatory study
in the public schools of Cumberland, Md., he entered
Western Maryland College, and received the degree of
Bachelor of Arts in 1889. He then spent three years
working with the engineering corps of the Maryland Steel
Co. at Sparrow Point, Md., the West Virginia Central
and Pittsburgh Railroad, and the Beaver Creek Lumber
Company Railroad, after which he took the Civil Engineer-
ing course in the Sheffield Scientific School, joining the
class in Junior year.

After graduation he returned for a year of graduate
work, and also instructed the Freshmen in mechanical
drawing, and the Senior and Junior civil engineering
classes in surveying. In 1896 he received the degree of
Civil Engineer.

In the fall of 1895 he designed and supervised the con-
struction of a new intake in the Potomac River for the
water works of Cumberland, and the following spring
as one of the assistant engineers of the National Transit
Co. of Oil City, Pa., he went through the oil regions of
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky,
and Tennessee, locating new pipe lines for petroleum. In
January, 1897, he took up similar work for the Buckeye
Pipe Line Company, at Lima, Ohio, working chiefly in
Ohio and Indiana, but spending two months in Petrolia,
Canada. In May, 1900, he entered the service of J. S.
Cullinan & Co. at Corsicana, Texas, and in the summer
of that year at Sabine Pass, Texas, built a thirty-five thou-

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sand barrel iron tank on a pile foundation in marshy
ground, the first in the Beaumont oil field.

In 1902 he was sent to India by the Standard Oil Co.
as construction engineer, supervised work in Bombay and
Calcutta, spent a year studying the oil fields of Burma
and visiting Singapore, and in 1904 was sent to Roumania
to undertake petroleum engineering in that country.

In the spring of 1905 his health broke down completely
and he returned to New York City, and underwent a suc-
cessful operation. After a year he was able to resume
work for the same company, and was stationed successively
at Coalinga, Corcoran, and Orcutt, in California, until
December, 191 1, when he was obliged to give up all work.
He died of tuberculosis at Pottenger's Sanatorium, Mon-
rovia, near Los Angeles, California, June 12, 19 12, at the
age of 40 years. He was buried in Lima, Ohio.

He always took great interest in the Young Men's Chris-
tian Association work in Cumberland, Oil City, Lima, Ohio,
Calcutta, and Burma, and made many public addresses
before these associations. He was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.

He married at Lima, Ohio, November 5, 1901, Gertrude,
daughter of John R. Hughes, a retired merchant, and Ellen
(Carpenter) Hughes. She survives him, their only child —
a son — having died in 1909.

i895

Frank Winthrop Jordan, son of Frank Stanwood and
Sara Elizabeth (Jones) Jordan, was born October 6, 1874,
in New York City. After preparation in the Dwight
School in that city he took the Select course in the Sheffield
Scientific School.

After graduation he went into the wholesale dry-goods
and commission business of Stevens, Sanford & Jordan of
New York City, in which his father was a partner, but in
April, 1910, became manager of one of the branch offices

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of Blyth & Bonner, members of the New York Stock
Exchange, and afterwards formed a similar connection
with W. E. Hutton & Co.

Mr. Jordan died from blood poisoning resulting from
an infected bruise at the summer home of his father at
Bay Shore, L. I., N. Y., August 14, 1912, in the 38th year
of his age.

He married in New York City, June 6, 1899, Gertrude E.,
daughter of William and Eliza (Marsden) Walker, of
Lincoln, England, who survives him. They had no children.

Frank Judson Parker, son of George T. Parker, a
wholesale merchant, and Alice (Lanphier) Parker, was
born October 28, 1872, in Branford, Conn. He was fitted
for college at the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven.

He took the Chemical course in the Sheffield Scientific
School, and after graduation entered the Yale Medical
School, from which he received the degree of Doctor of
Medicine in 1898. He was a member of the Connecticut
Naval Militia at the time of the Spanish-American War.

He then served two years on the staff of the Manhattan
Eye and Ear Hospital in New York, and was appointed
assistant surgeon there in June, 1900. At the same time
he began practice in New York City, making a specialty
of ophthalmology and otology. In 190 1 he was appointed
Instructor in Ophthalmology in the New York Post Grad-
uate Medical School, and ophthalmic surgeon at the
Presbyterian Hospital of New York. The following year
he became consulting ophthalmic surgeon to Seton Hos-
pital, Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y. He later also held the same
position in the New York Orphanage Asylum and the
Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital, and was attending physician
at the Sunshine Home for Blind Babies in New York. He
published several articles in medical periodicals.

Dr. Parker died after four days of serious illness with
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York City, October 2, 19 12, in the 40th year of his age.
He was unmarried, and the last of his immediate family.
He was buried in Branford.

Beside the bequest to his native town of a valuable tract
of property at Branford Point for a public park and
playground, Dr. Parker left bequests to the Home for the
Friendless in Fair Haven, to the Memorial Fund of his
Class, and to the Yale Medical School, also legacies for
memorials of his father and mother.

1897

Paul Babcock Munson, second son and fourth of the
seven children of Samuel Lyman and Susan Babcock
(Hopkins) Munson, was born March 5, 1875, at Albany,
N. Y. He was prepared at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass., for the Sheffield Scientific School, where he took
the Select course.

After graduation he went into the business established
by his father in 1867, the manufacture of collars, shirts,
and women's garments. The firm was incorporated in
March, 191 1, under the name of the S. L. Munson Co.,
of which he was vice-president. He was a director and
member of the house committee of the University Club.

Mr. Munson died after an operation for appendicitis at
the Homeopathic Hospital, Albany, September 18, 1912,
at the age of 37 years. He was unmarried. His parents,
five brothers, and two sisters survive him. One of his
sisters is the wife of Robert H. Lyman (B.A. Yale 1884).

He was a member of the Madison Avenue [Dutch]
Reformed Church in Albany.

1898

Rowan Ayres, son of Dr. Stephen Cooper Ayres (B.A.
Miami 1861), an oculist, and until recently Professor of

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Ophthalmology and Otology in the University of Cincin-
nati, was born in that city, August 27, 1876. He was pre-
pared for college at the Franklin School, Cincinnati, and
the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven.

At the opening of the Spanish-American War he enlisted
in Light Battery A, First Connecticut Artillery, but did
not see active service.

After graduation he went to Mexico, where he was an
assayer for mining camps for several months, and since
then had been a civil engineer and mining engineer in that
country, much of the time in the service of the Mexican
International Railroad, upon which three classmates were
also at one time engaged.

At the time of his death he was superintendent of con-
struction and chief engineer of a large section of railroad
building near Patzcuaro, where he was assassinated,
August 13, 1912. He was in the 36th year of his age, and
unmarried. The body was buried in Spring Grove
Cemetery, Cincinnati.

Besides his parents, two brothers (B.A. Yale 1897 and
Ph.B. Yale 1903, respectively) and two sisters survive him.

Walter Knight Sturges, eldest son of Howard Okie
Sturges, a cotton manufacturer, and Alice Spring (Knight)
Sturges, was born August 25, 1876, in Providence, R. I.
He was prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Concord,
N. H., and took the Select course in the Sheffield Scientific
School.

After graduation he entered the office of the estate of
his grandfather, B. B. Knight, in Providence, and had been
manager for the past ten years. He was also a director of
the Narragansett Electric Lighting Co., of which his father
was vice-president. Since 191 1 he had been a Republican
member of the city council. He was a member of the
Providence Art Club, and secretary of the Hope Club.

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While on shipboard returning from an inspection trip to
the Panama Canal he was taken with pleuro-pneumonia, of
which he died at a private sanitarium in New York City,
May 9, 1913. He was in his 37th year.

He married April 25, 1900, Mary Alexis, daughter of
Joseph Magnos and Sarah E. Hayes, of St. Louis, Mo. She
survives him with three sons. Two brothers are gradu-
ates of the Academical Department in 1902 and 1908,
respectively.

1899

George James Warner Mabee, son of George James
Warner Mabee, a mine owner and operator, and Harriet
(Darrow) Mabee, was born February 5, 1878, at Central
City, Colo. After preparation in the East Denver High
School, he took the course in Chemistry and Mineralogy
in the Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he joined a surveying party in Lead-
ville, Colo., engaged in surveying spur tracks to different
mines for the Colorado & Southern Railway. He then
went to Central City, first as shipping clerk and accountant
for the Topeka Mine, later held various positions in the
Randolph Stamp Mill of the Randolph Milling Co., and
then leased and operated the Butler Mine. At the same
time he was manager of the Linden and Newfoundland
Mines of the Newfoundland Gold and Silver Mining Co.,
in Gilpin County. He spent two years in charge of mines
at Manhattan and Goldfield, Nevada, and then returned to
Colorado and was an ore inspector for the Independence
Mine at Cripple Creek. In 1908, after a year there, he was
taken ill with kidney trouble, and was thereafter unable to
attend to any business.

He died from a complication of diseases in Central City,
Colo., June 29, 1912, at the age of 34 years. He was a
member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

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He married at Cripple Creek, October 8, 1904, Isabelle
Mundie (Colorado State Normal School 1903), daughter
of Cormuyn Mundie, a merchant in North Tonawanda,
N. Y., who survives him with two sons and a daughter.

1905

William Bradley Mixter, son of Frank Mixter, presi-
dent of the Rock Island (111.) Stove Co., and Elizabeth
(Bradley) Mixter, was born March 31, 1886, in Rock
Island. He came to Yale from Augustana College, and
took the Electrical Engineering course.

The year after his graduation from the Sheffield Scientific
School he was a member of the Senior class in College, and
received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1906. He was
then an apprentice with the Westinghouse Electric Co., at
East Pittsburgh, Pa., a year, cashier and bookkeeper for
the Rock Island Buggy Co. the following year, and since
October, 1909, had been in charge of a fruit ranch at
Sheridan near Portland, Ore., later engaging also in the
real estate business in Portland.

Mr. Mixter died June 30, 1912, at the home of his sister
in New York City, whither he had come in December, 191 1,
for treatment on account of an accident. He was 26 years
of age, and unmarried. His parents and sister survive him.

Joseph Hawley Spencer, son of Ralph Lincoln and
Lillie Snow (Buckingham) Spencer, was born February
24, 1881, at Ivoryton, Conn. In early life he lived in sev-
eral different sections of the country, was fitted for college
at the Morgan School in Clinton, Conn., and took the
Mining Engineering course in the Sheffield Scientific
School, his residence at the time being Brooklyn, N. Y.,
where his father was a promoter.

In the fall after graduation he became connected with
the Unlisted Securities, Ltd., of Toronto, Canada, handling

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stocks of the cobalt-silver deposits at Cobalt, Ontario, and
was later made president of the company. In the spring
of 1906 he became financially interested in a mine at
Cobalt, which he developed and disposed of advantageously
in December following, and then for nearly two years
lived in Clinton, Conn. Since February, 1909, he had been
with the Kolynos Company, manufacturers of dentifrice
in New Haven, of which he was office manager for about
two years.

Mr. Spencer died June 7, 1912, at Falmouth, Mass., at
the age of 31 years, after an illness of more than a year
from tuberculosis of the throat. He was a member of the
Baptist Church in Clinton.

He married at Clinton, April 18, 1906, Saidie Helen,
daughter of Eliezer Roberts and Lucy Cheesman (Tabb)
Bacon. She survives him with a son, the Class Boy, and
a daughter.

1906

Sylvester Homer Everett, son of Sylvester Thomas
Everett, a retired banker, was born November 25, 1884,
in Cleveland, Ohio. His mother was Alice (Wade)
Everett. After preparation in the Cleveland University
School he took the Select course in the Sheffield Scientific
School.

After graduation he was for about four years with the
Citizens Savings & Trust Co., Cleveland, for a year and
a half as receiving teller. Since then he had been general
sales agent for the Morris Coal Co., the Jefferson Coal Co.,
and the Morris-Poston Coal Co., with an office in Cleveland.

While suffering from the effects of a hemorrhage of
the brain, he fell over a cliff in a suburb of Cleveland, and
met instant death, February 1, 19 13. He was in his 29th
year.

He married in Cleveland, Ohio, April 22, 1908, Flora P.,
daughter of Calvary and Flora (Pierce) Morris. She

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survives him with two sons. A brother graduated from
the Sheffield Scientific School in 1903.

1907

Burgess Dickinson, son of Rev. Edwin Henry Dickin-
son, D.D. (B.A. Amherst 1879) and Emma (Carter) Dick-
inson, was born December 5, 1884, at Knoxboro, N. Y.,
where his father was then pastor of the Presbyterian
Church. During his boyhood his home was successively
in McGrawville, Seneca Falls, and Buffalo, N. Y., and he
was prepared for college at the Master Park High School,
Buffalo. He took the Forestry course in the Sheffield
Scientific School, and after graduation was a member of
the Senior Class in the Forest School, but then became
an engineer for the Edison Co. in New York City.
Recently he had decided to devote himself to the study of
music, for which he had unusual gifts.

Mr. Dickinson had been in ill health for some time, and
died suddenly in New York City, January 28, 191 3, in the
29th year of his age. Besides his father, two brothers,
one of them a graduate of Hamilton College in 1905,
and a sister survive him. He was a nephew of Walter
Frederick Carter (B.A. Yale 1895). He was a member of
the North Presbyterian Church in Buffalo.

Merritt Beach Merwin, son of Hon. Joseph Butler
Merwin, former judge of the New Milford (Conn.) town
court, and Mary Agnes (Beach) Merwin, was born Feb-
ruary 25, 1883, at New Milford. He was prepared for
college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., and
after a year each in the Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic
Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, en-
tered the Sheffield Scientific School, taking the Civil
Engineering course.

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After graduation he was employed in the maintenance
of way department of the New York, New Haven & Hart-
ford Railroad Co. until 1910, and then engaged in con-
struction work for the New York Central Railroad Co.
In 191 1 and part of 1912 he was engineer for the South
Jersey Realty Co. and then superintendent of its plans for
development around Stone Harbor, N. J.

About October 1, 19 12, he resigned from that position
to enter manufacturing with his twin brother (Ph.B.
1906), as treasurer and general manager of the Bennett-
Merwin Silver Co. at New Milford. Two months later,
December 2, he was instantly killed while adjusting some
machinery in his factory. He was 29 years of age. He
was a member of the First Congregational Church in
New Milford.

Mr. Merwin married April 26, 191 1, Mary A., daughter
of Andrew Todd and Mary Helen (Goldsmith) Newberry
of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., who survives him with an infant
daughter. An uncle, Timothy D wight Merwin, graduated
from the College in 1877.

1909

Robert Hart Cary, only son of Edward A. Cary, a
court reporter, and Alice (Hart) Cary, was born Decem-
ber 15, 1885, in Peoria, 111. He was fitted for college at
the North Platte (Neb.) High School.

Before coming to Yale he was a member of the University
of Montana about two years. While in the Sheffield Sci-
entific School he largely paid his own way, and took the
Select course. He gained prominence as a sprinter, and in
Junior year won his "Y" in the Harvard Track meet.

Since graduation he had been for three years physical
director at the University of Montana, at Missoula, where
he died of diabetes at St. Patrick's Hospital, September
19, 1912, in the 27th year of his age. The burial was at

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Missoula. He was not married. His father and mother
survive him. He was a member of the First Presbyterian
Church in Missoula.

1912

Edward Raymond Backus, son of Edward Wellington
Backus and Elizabeth (Horr) Backus, was born September
7, 1890, in Minneapolis, Minn. He was prepared for col-
lege at Lawrenceville, N. J., and was a member of the
University of Minnesota for a year before entering the
Select course in the Sheffield Scientific School. He received
Two- Year Honors in all studies at graduation.

He was intending to enter the lumber and paper busi-
ness with his father in the Backus-Brooks Co. in Minne-
apolis. He was spending the summer with the family at
Rainy Lake, and had left the houseboat at Raymond Inlet
for a partridge hunt with his friend, Frank Bowman, on
Dry Weed Island, when he slipped on a ledge of rock, and
the gun which he carried was discharged, the bullet enter-
ing his head. He died shortly afterward, without regaining
consciousness, August 26, 1912. He was in his 22d year.
His parents and one brother survive him.

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1875

John Ogilvie Stevenson was born June 10, 1841, at
Bannockburn, Scotland, where he learned the trade of
a tanner and currier. He also studied in Glasgow Uni-
versity, but when twenty-two years of age he came to
America, and was a pioneer teacher in Texas for about
seven years. Coming North, he was a student in the Yale
Divinity School for three years.

October 26, 1875, he was ordained pastor of the Con-
gregational Church in Ellsworth, Conn., and continued
there till December, 1879. In 1873, while in the Divinity
School, he was also enrolled as a member of Oberlin College,
and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts there in 1876.
From 1880 to 1885 he was in charge of the Congregational
Church at Shenandoah, la., and in the fall of 1886 went to
Waterloo, la., where he was Congregational pastor until
1898.

Owing to the loss of his voice, he then left the ministry,
but continued to reside in Waterloo, where he became editor
of the Woman's Standard, an equal suffrage journal, and
was a weekly literary contributor to the Waterloo Evening
Courier. He was also clerk of the First Congregational
Church at Waterloo, and statistical secretary and treasurer
of the Iowa Congregational Conference. In 1887 the degree
of Master of Arts was conferred on him by Oberlin College,
and in 1892 that of Doctor of Divinity by Tabor College.

Dr. Stevenson died at his home in Waterloo, December
19, 1912, at the age of 71 years.

He married, July 18, 1889, Ella Clara McDonald of
Salem, Ohio, a fellow student at Oberlin, who survives him
with a son and two daughters.

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1881

Pliny Barnard Fisk, fourth and youngest child of
Anson and Joanna (Barnard) Fisk, was born May 6, 1850,
at Waitsfield, Vt.

After receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the
University of Vermont in 1877, he taught school a year
at Essex, N. Y., and then entered the Divinity School.
While taking this course he spent his summer vacations in
the service of the Vermont Domestic Missionary Society,
was ordained September 28, 1881, at Waitsfield, as an
evangelist, and soon after went to Dakota as a member of
the Yale Dakota Band of nine, doing pioneer work and
occupying hard fields, in counties which were later in the
State of South Dakota. He was at Egan a year, Letcher
two years, Gettysburg four years, Cresbard and Myron
seven years, and from 1895 to 1898 at Ree Heights, having
charge of four churches in one county and two in the
adjoining county, in 1896. He then returned to Waitsfield
and lived there a year and a half, after which he was with
the Lake Henry and Drakola churches in South Dakota
four years, when the ill health of his wife compelled his
removal in 1904 to Ceres, Cal. Thereafter he held no
pastorate.

Mr. Fisk died of Bright's disease at Ceres, November
2J, 1912, at the age of 62 years. He was buried there.

He married in 1888, at Gettysburg, S. D., Carolyn,
daughter of Samuel Clark, a farmer living near Piqua,
Ohio, and Sarah (Crozier) Clark. She survives him, also
a brother.

1883

Daniel Miles Lewis, son of David and Mary (Phillips)
Lewis, was born May 28, 1850, at Mount Washington, Pa.
He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Marietta

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College in 1878, and of Master of Arts in 1881. While at
Yale his home was Pomeroy, Ohio.'

After graduation from the Yale Divinity School he
entered the Congregational ministry, and was ordained at
Glencoe, Minn., April 2, 1884, where he remained until
June, 1885. From November, 1886, he was acting pastor
at Galesburg, Mich., three years; at Findlay, Ohio, two
years ; Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, five years ; Alexandria, Ohio,
a year and a half; at West Pullman, Chicago, 111., from
October, 1898 to 1903 ; then in Missouri, in succession at
Pierce City, five years, Golden City, three years, and
Lathrop a year and a half.

Mr. Lewis died of B right's disease at his home in
Lathrop, Mo., January 28, 19 13, in the 63d year of his age.

He married at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 7, 1884, Emma,
daughter of Rev. Joseph L. Riggs (B.A. Amherst 1831)
and Elizabeth (Roosa) Riggs, who survives him with a
son and daughter.

Henry James Whitby, son of James and Hannah (Ash-
ton) Whitby, was born November 25, 1855, at Dowlais,
South Wales, and graduated from Brecon Memorial Col-
lege in 1880. Until he was eighteen years old he worked
in the mines.

After graduation he engaged in pastoral work in Penn-
sylvania for six years, being ordained at Shamokin, August
26, 1883, and after a pastorate of two and a half years
there, being settled over the First Congregational Church
at Pittston, where he remained three and a half years.
In July, 1889, he took charge of the Bethany Congrega-
tional Church of Emporia, Kans., and continued there till
July, 1905. During the five years following he was an
instructor in history and economics in the College of
Emporia. He made a translation from the German of
Rudolph Otto of "The Life and Ministry of Jesus."

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In 1904 as he was leaving the church at Long Creek,
la., where he was preaching during his summer vacation,
Mr. Whitby had a severe fall, which permanently injured
his nervous system. He died of pneumonia at his home
in Emporia, September 30, 19 12, in his 57th year.

He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 15, 1884,
Martha, daughter of Daniel and Mary Ann (Collins)
Griffith of Dowlais, South Wales. She survives him with
four daughters.

1888

Alexander Milne, son of William and Christina
(Lyall) Milne, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, June 24,
1862. When the son was eleven years old, he came with
his father to the United States, first to Rockland, Me.,
and then to Westerly, R. I. He became an expert granite
worker, but having strong ideas of independence, he
refused to join the stonecutters' union and he was in con-
sequence forced out of work. His attitude toward the
labor union attracted the interest of Hon. Nathan F. Dixon
(B.A. Brown 1833), who desired him to enter his law
office, and at the same time directed his studies in the
common branches. Although his previous opportunities
for education had been extremely limited and he was then
eighteen years of age, he quickly mastered his text-books.
The pastor of the Congregational Church in Westerly, with
which he had united, Rev. George L. Clark (B.A. Amherst
1872), after a time suggested that he should go into the
ministry and aided him in Latin, Greek, and mathematics,
and other preparatory studies, so that he entered the Yale
Divinity School in the Middle class.

After graduation he was a member of the Graduate
class for a time, but in May, 1889, was ordained pastor
of Plymouth Congregational Church in Columbus, Ohio,
which he served ten years, leaving it with new life and a

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new edifice. Accepting the call of the Pilgrim Congrega-
tional Church of Duluth, Minn., in February, 1889, ne
became a leader there in all good works. He was at the
same time a scholarly and convincing preacher. He was
very helpful to the other churches in the Duluth Conference.

In January, 191 2, he resigned on account of ill health,
went first to Florida and then North Carolina. Finding
recovery hopeless, he returned to Columbus and died in
the Grant Hospital there four days later, September 22,
1912, at the age of 50 years. He was buried at Columbus,
Ohio.

Mr. Milne married at Columbus, Ohio, February 4, 1895,
Florence Josephine, daughter of Rev. Samuel Teppett, a
Methodist minister, and Jane (Ropp) Teppett. She sur-
vives him with a daughter.

In 1898 Mr. Milne received the degree of Master of Arts
from Ohio State University. He was a trustee of Carleton
College for several years.

1890

Elmer Ellsworth Smiley, son of Alpheus and Rosetta
(Kathan) Smiley, was born August 6, 1862, at Syracuse,
N. Y. After a preparatory course at Onondaga Academy,
Onondaga Valley, N. Y., he entered Syracuse University
and received there the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1885.
He then spent two years as principal of the Union School,
East Bloomfield, N. Y.

After completing the three-year course in the Yale
Divinity School, he was a member of the Graduate School
for a year.

As one of seven classmates in the Divinity School who
formed the Washington Band for service in the then new
state of Washington, he went to Vancouver, in that state,
and was ordained there to the ministry, September 15, 1891.
He was pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church until

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April, 1894, and the next four years of the First Congre-
gational Church at Cheyenne, Wyo. While in Wyoming
he was chairman of the state Congregational Home Mission-
ary Society four years. In 1898 he was elected president
of the State University of Wyoming, at Laramie, and filled
the office six years, until failing health compelled him to
give up this work, and he returned to his native state. After
a period of rest he became pastor of the First Congrega-
tional Church at Groton, N. Y., serving until his death,
which occurred January 31, 191 1, at the Hospital of the
Good Shepherd in Syracuse, and was due to a hemorrhage
caused by excessive blood pressure. He was in his 49th
year.

He married at Baldwinsville, N. Y., June 17, 1891, Edith
Constance, daughter of Abram and Sarah Samantha (Ven-
ton) House. She survives him with two sons.

He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Syra-
cuse University in 1899, and the honorary degree of Master
of Arts from Yale in 1901.

1904

George DeWitt Castor, son of George F. and Julia
(Schondorfer) Castor, was born November 7, 1876, at
Cleveland, Ohio. After preparatory study in the Kansas
City High School he entered Drury College, from which
he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1898, spent
three years teaching in the High School at Lamar, Mo.,
and in St. Johnsbury Academy, Vt., and then entered the
Yale Divinity School, where he showed special aptitude for
New Testament studies, and was one of the editors of the
Yale Divinity Quarterly. In 1903 he received the degree
of Master of Arts from Drury College. Upon graduation
from the Divinity School he continued his studies in the
Graduate School for nearly two years, in 1904-05 served
as Director of Religious Work, received the degree of

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Master of Arts in 1905, and was awarded the Dwight Fel-
lowship in the Divinity School, upon which he spent a year
of study in Berlin, and a summer in Marburg, Germany.
Returning to Yale in 1906, he was Instructor in Biblical
Literature in the Divinity School, and in 1907 received the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy, at the same time acting
as assistant pastor of the Center Church. That same year
he was appointed Professor of New Testament Literature
and Exegesis in the Pacific Theological Seminary at
Berkeley, Cal., where he was ordained to the ministry,
December 10, 1907, and inaugurated in his office, April
6, 1908. Outside of his duties in the Seminary he was
active in many forms of religious service, and was espe-
cially helpful in settlement work in San Francisco and in
the Sunday School work of the state.

While swimming in a stream near Kelseyville, Cal., he
was seized with heart failure or some sudden complication,
and was drowned July 14, 1912. He was 35 years of age.
A service in his memory was held at the Seminary in
Berkeley, August 29.

He married at Williamstown, Mass., July 9, 1903, Martha
Chapin, daughter of Rev. Henry Martyn Goodwin, D.D.
(B.A. Yale 1840), for more than twenty years pastor of
the First Congregational Church in Rockford, 111., and
afterward Professor of English Literature in Olivet Col-
lege. His parents and a brother, with Mrs. Castor, survive
him.

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ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT
(Yale College)

Class Name and Age

1840 Nathaniel H. Egleston, 90

1843 Charles K. Atwood, 91

1843 William Beeson, 88

1844 Samuel T. Rogers, 92
1844 Joseph B. Walker, 90

1844 Jonathan White, 92

1845 Henry B. Carrington, 88
1845 Constantine C. Esty, 88

1847 D. Thew Wright, 86

1848 David S. Calhoun, 85

1848 Henry M. Parsons, 84

1849 Ellsworth Eliot, 85

1850 Daniel Bonbright, 81
1850 Cyprian S.Brainerd, Jr., 84
1850 John D. Easter, 81

1850 Moses C Welch, 85

185 1 Francis R. Lincoln, 84

1852 Charles W. Curtiss, 81

1852 John C. DuBois, 81

1853 Edson L. Clark, 85

1853 Alexander D. Stowell, 86
J853 Joseph Warren, 82

1854 Wm. W. Gordon, 77 White

1854 Stewart L. Woodford, 77

1855 William D. Alexander, 79
1855 Edwin Corning, 77

1855 John Edgar, 87

1855 William C. Wyman, 78

1856 Joseph R. French, 76

1857 Edmund T. Allen, 75
1857 David D. Baldwin, 80
1857 Joseph N. Hallock, 80
1857 Joseph C. Jackson, 77
1857 Michael W. Robinson, 74

Place and

Elizabeth, N. J.
Hartford, Conn.
Uniontown, Pa.
Bridgeport, Conn.
Concord, N. H.
Brockton, Mass.
Hyde Park, Mass.
Framingham, Mass.
Cincinnati, O.
Hartford, Conn.
Toronto, Canada
New York City
Daytona, Fla.

Time of Death

Aug. 24,
Sept. 18,

May 14,

Feb. 17,
Jan. 8,

July 25,

Oct. 26,

Dec. 27,
Sept. 11,

Nov. 7,

Jan. 14,

Dec. 9,

Nov. 27,

Haddam Neck, Conn. Aug. 16,

Redlands, Cal. Jan. 6,

Hartford, Conn. April 7,

Logan, Kans. March 8,

Chicago, 111. Sept. 26,

Hudson, N. Y. April 29,

Dalton, Mass. March 2,

Binghamton, N. Y. Jan. 22,

Dorchester, Mass. Nov. 2,
Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Sept. 11,

New York City Feb. 14,

Honolulu, H. T. Feb. 21,

New York City Dec. 6,

Minneapolis, Minn. Sept. 13,

Boston, Mass. Oct. 20,

New Haven, Conn. Jan. 3,

St. Louis, Mo. May 29,

Honolulu, H. T. June 16,

Brooklyn, N. Y. March 24,

New York City May 22,

Chicago, 111. July 23,

522

YALI

i COLLEGE

1859

Green Clay, 73

Mexico, Mo.

Oct. 31, *I2

1859

Francis H. Houston, 75

Berlin, Germany

April 7, '13

i860

Eugene L. Richards, 73

Beach Haven, N. J.

Aug. s, '12

1861

Samuel A. Bent, 71

Boston, Mass.

Nov. 22, '12

1861

Anthony Higgins, 71

New York City

June 26, '12

1861

James W. McLane, 73

New York City

Nov. 25, '12

1861

Nathaniel S. Moore, 73

North Pomfret, Vt.

Feb. 2, '13

1862

Robert F. Chapman, 71

New York City

Nov. 12, '12

1862

Charles W. Ely, 73

Washington, D. C.

Oct. I, '12

1862

Thomas H. Pitkin, 70

Detroit, Mich.

Jan. 14, '13

1863

Leander T. Chamberlain,

75 Pasadena, Cal.

May 9, '13

1863

Willabe Haskell, 74

New Haven, Conn.

May 6, '13

1863

George K. Tufts, 71

Worcester, Mass.

Feb. 11/13

1863

Edward L. Washburn, 73

New Haven, Conn.

Feb. 10/13

1864

Edward A. Anketell, 72

New Haven, Conn.

Feb. 5/13

1864

Charles A. Hiller, 68

New Haven, Conn.

April 19, '13

1864

Henry E. Owen, 69

New York City

Oct. 12, '12

1864

Ralph Wheeler, 69

New London, Conn.

Feb. 14, '13

1864

Henry R. Wood, 72

Englewood, N. J.

April 8, '13

1865

John E. Brooks, 68

London, England

Feb. 20, '13

1865

Charles R. Forrest, 69

Hartford, Conn.

Oct. 7/12

1866

Lewis L. Abbott, 68

New York City

May 25/13

1866

Harrison Downs, 68

Central Islip, N. Y.

Aug. 14, 'l2

1866

Charles M. Southgate, 66

Gloucester, Mass.

June 5, '12

1867

James M. Allen, 69

San Francisco, Cal.

May 6, '13

1867

Frank H. Hathorn, 65

Saratoga Springs, N. Y.

March 25, '13

1867

Homer Weston, 70

Syracuse, N. Y.

Sept. 17, '12

1868

George H. Lewis, 70

Des Moines, la.

March 16, '13

1868

Thomas H. Williams, 67

Salisbury, Md.

Aug. 29, '12

1869

Charles A. Hull, 64

Brooklyn, N. Y.

Feb. 14 '13

1870

Francis M. Mann, 63

Troy, N. Y.

Nov. 28, '12

1870

Charles E. Perkins, 62

Hanover, N. H.

July 30/12

1872

Thomas R. Bacon, 62

Berkeley, Cal.

March 26, '13

1872

Clarence Deming, 64

New Haven, Conn.

May 8/13

1872

Elbert H. Hubbard, 62

Sioux City, la.

June 4, '12

1872

William B. Wheeler, 62

New York City

July 20, '12

1873

Algernon T. Bristow, 61

Brooklyn, N. Y.

March 26, '13

1873

Joseph P. Ord, 60

New York City

Jan. 9, *I3

1873

James P. Piatt, 61

Meriden, Conn.

Jan. 26, '13

1873

Seth T. Stewart, 62

Brooklyn, N. Y.

April 15, '13

1874

William Hedges, 61

Bridgehampton, N. Y

. Nov. 28, '12

1874

Alfred Q. Kennett, 58

Rome, Italy

Dec. 27, '12

1875

Carl T. Chester, 59

Buffalo, N. Y.

Aug. 29, 'l2

SUMMARY

523

1876 Henry M. Butler, 59

1876 William D. Ellwanger, 57

1876 Isaac M. Jackson, 60

1877 Willis A. Briscoe, 56
1877 George M. Tuttle, 56

1877 William P. Williams, 54

1878 John N. Peet, 56

1879 Hugh D. Auchincloss, 54

1879 Lewis H. Hyde, 55

1880 James E. Newcomb, 55

1881 Clarence F. Carroll, 61
1881 Ernest E. Hart, 53

1881 Leonard H. Poole, 55

1882 Samuel Bennett, 54

1882 Stephen M. Clement, 53

1883 George H. Bottome, 51
1886 Edward S. Bacon, 50
1886 Gibbons G. Cornwell, 50
1888 Francis Bergstrom, 53

1888 Lucius N. Palmer, 45

1889 Ernest S. Bishop, 45
1889 Walter S. Brewster, 45
1889 Edmund B. White, 44

1892 Ferdinand A. Hauslein, 46

1893 Burton E. Leavitt, 41

1894 John M. Ferguson, 40

1895 Joseph B. Hone, 41
1895 Tracy Peck, 38

1898 Thomas M. Evans, 37

1898 George P. Stimson, 36

1899 Albert J. Mayer, 32

1902 Louis F. Boder, 32

1903 Charles A. Brady, 30
1903 Arthur C Long, 31
1903 Arthur Manierre, 31
1906 Edward S. Payton, 29

1906 Alexander J. Wood, 27

1907 Norman A. Leonard, 27

1908 Eugene Delano, 25

1908 Wright H. Robertson, 25

1909 William W. Borden, 25

1910 Arthur F. Robinson, 23
1912 Royden W.Allen, 21

Washington, D. C
Rochester, N. Y.
Plymouth, Mass.
Norwich, Conn.
New York City
New York City
Plainfield, N. J.
New York City
New York City
Lake Kushaqua, N. Y,
Warner, N. H.
Long Beach, Cal.
Parkersburg, W. Va.
Lexington, Ky.
Atlantic City, N. J.
Ossining, N. Y.
Providence, R. I.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Worcester, Mass.
Denver, Colo.
Guilford, Conn.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Chicago, 111.
Dallas, Texas
Putnam, Conn.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Rochester, N. Y.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Boston, Mass.
Cincinnati, O.
New Orleans, La.
Kansas City, Mo.
New York City
Wilmington, Del.
Chicago, 111.
Saranac Lake, N. Y.
New Britain, Conn.
Willimantic, Conn.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Westport, Mass.
Cairo, Egypt
New York City
Terryville, Conn.

May 16, '13

Feb. 16, '13

April 4, '13

April 29, '13

Oct. 29, '12

July 25/12

Dec. 31, *I2

April 21, '13

March 6/13

Aug. 27, '12

June 14, '12

Feb. 1, '13

Feb. 9, '13

March 10, '13

March 26/13

May 10, '13

April 8, '13

Aug. 6, '12

Aug. 12, '12

April 18, '12

Aug. 9, '12

March 29, '13

Feb. 18, '13

July 1, '12

Nov. 19, '12

May 9, '13
Dec. 31, *I2
Jan. 29, '13

April 26, '13

Feb. 18, '13

Jan. 14, 'i 1

Oct. 5, '12

Jan. 2, '13

April 13, '13

Oct. 7, '12

June 23, *I2

Jan. 26, '13

March 9, '13
Jan. 29, '13

Aug. 11/ 12

April 9, 'i3

May 24, '13

March 15, '13

524

YALE COLLEGE
YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL

1865 James G. Birch, 76

1866 SethHill,74

1871 Norman B. Bayley, 65

1907 Frank W. Thompson, 29

Newburgh, N. Y.
Bridgeport, Conn.
Haverstraw, N. Y.
Newport, R. I.

Feb. 1, '13

Feb. 5, '12

Feb. 27/13

May 30, '13

YALE LAW SCHOOL

1852
1866
1872
1876
1892
1895
1895
1897
1900
1904
1910

1854
1861
1865
1869
1870
1870
1872
1874
1874
1874
1876
1883
1883
1886
1887
1893
1894
1895
1895
1897
1898

Frederick S. Giddings, 85
Richard H. Chittenden, 75
William Grece, 71
Eugene B. Peck, 58
John M. Douglas, 39
John A. Bellis, 37
Melville B. Mendell, 40
William V. Robbins, 43
William V. Devitt, 35
Benjamin F. Hill, 37
Meyer M. Shapiro, 24

Madison, Wise.
New York City
Jersey City, N. J.
Bridgeport, Conn.
New York City
Fonda, N. Y.
Woodside, L. I., N. Y.
New York City
Bridgeport, Conn,
near Milliken, Colo.
Bridgeport, Conn.

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL

David B. Parsons, 79
Oscar D. Allen, 76
Harry Rogers, 67
Joseph R. Folsom, 63
Daniel S. Brinsmade, 67
Dorr Clark, 63
Robert D. [M.] Maxwell,
Hagop A. Bezjian, 75
William S. Pratt, 61
S. Harrison Wagner, 62
Frank A. Terry, 57
Albert W. Robert, 49
Charles L. Sayre, 51
Joseph O. Dyer, 48
Grayson G. Knapp, 46
Morris H. Beall, 41
William M. Weller, 40
Frank W. Jordan, 37
Frank J. Parker, 39
Paul B. Munson, 37
Rowan Ayres, 35

Minneapolis, Minn.
Ashford, Wash.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Berkeley, Cal.
Shelton, Conn.
Green Bay, Wise.
'59 Germantown, Pa.
Aintab, Turkey
Prescott, Ariz.
New Haven, Conn.
White Haven, Pa.
Troy, N. Y.
Los Angeles, Cal.
New Orleans, La.
Auburn, N. Y.
New York City
Monrovia, Cal.
Bay Shore, L. I., N.
New York City
Albany, N. Y.
Patzcuaro, Mexico

Dec. 2, '12
Nov. 15, 'ii

July 31, *I2
April 27, '13

Feb. 29, '12

Nov. 5, 'ii

Dec. 7, '12

April 23, '13

Oct. 11/12
Nov. 23, '12

Jan. 28, '13

Y.

July 13,
Feb. 19,

May 2,
Aug. 13,
Sept. 7,
Nov. 11,.
June 13,
Feb. 10,
Aug. 24,
June 17,
March 30,
Feb. 18,
Dec. 17,
Aug. 30,

Oct. 3,
Jan. 29,
June 12,
Aug. 14,

Oct. 2,
Sept. 18,
Aug. 13,

SUMMARY 525

1898 Walter K. Sturges, 36 New York City May 9, '13

1899 George J. W. Mabee, 34 Central City, Colo. June 29, '12
1905 William B. Mixter, 26 New York City June 30, '12

1905 Joseph H. Spencer, 31 Falmouth, Mass. June 7, '12

1906 S. Homer Everett, 28 near Cleveland, O. Feb. 1, '13

1907 Burgess Dickinson, 28 New York City Jan. 28, '13
1907 Merritt B. Merwin, 29 New Milford, Conn. Dec. 2, '12
1909 Robert H. Cary, 26 Missoula, Mont. Sept. 19, '12
1912 Edward R. Backus, 21

Dry Weed Isl., Rainy Lake, Minn. Aug. 26, '12

YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL

1875 John O. Stevenson, 71 Waterloo, la. Dec. 19, '12

1881 Pliny B. Fisk, 62 Ceres, Cal. Nov. 27, '12

1883 DanieLM. Lewis, 62 Lathrop, Mo. Jan. 28, '13

1883 Henry J. Whitby, 56 Emporia, Kans. Sept. 30, '12

1888 Alexander Milne, 50 Columbus, O. Sept. 22, '12

1890 Elmer E. Smiley, 48 Syracuse, N. Y. Jan. 31, 'n

1904 George D. Castor, 35 near Kelseyville, Cal. July 14, '12

The number of deaths recorded this year is 172 and the average
age of the 120 graduates of the Academical Department is over
63/4 years.

The following graduates have also died, but the information
desired regarding them could not be obtained in time for the
insertion of sketches in the present Record:

1861 m Horace Philo Porter died at Butler, Mo., December 23, 1912.
1893 m Martial Adolph Scharton died at Jamaica Plain, Mass.,

July 18, 1912.
1874 d Richard Bailey Snell died at Crescent City, Cal., May 13,

1912.
1904 d George Edwin Porter died at Lancaster, Pa., November

16, 1912.
1864.? Robert Long Brownfield died at Atlantic City, N. J., April

13, 1913.
1898 s Paul David Kelley died at Berryville, Va., May 4, 1913.

The oldest living graduate of the Academical Department is :
Class of 1839, David Fisher Atwater, of Springfield, Mass., born

October 29, 1817. He is also the oldest living graduate of the

Medical Department, in the Class of 1842.

ihstdiezx:

Members of the Divinity \ Lait

, Medical, and Scientific Schools are indicated

by the letters d, /, m

and s, respectively.

Class

Page

Class

Page

1866

Abbott, Lewis L.

418

1862

Chapman, Robert F.

402

1855

Alexander, Wm. D.

376

1875

Chester, Carl T.

441

1857

Allen, Edmund T.

382

1866/

Chittenden, R. H.

482

1867

Allen, James M.

420

1870.?

Clark, Dorr

494

186IJ

Allen, Oscar D.

491

1853

Clark, Edson L.

367

IQI2

Allen, Royden W.

477

1859

Clay, Green

389

1864

Anketell, Edward A.

412

1882

Clement, Stephen M.

456

1843

Atwood, Charles K.

34i

1855

Corning, Edwin

378

1879

Auchincloss, Hugh D.

449

1886

Cornwell, Gibbons G.

459

1898 J

Ayres, Rowan

506

1852

Curtiss, Charles W.

365

1912S

Backus, Edward R.

513

I908

Delano, Eugene

474

1886

Bacon, Edward S.

459

1872

Deming, Clarence

430

1872

Bacon, Thomas R.

428

1900/

Devitt, William V.

487

1857

Baldwin, David D.

383

1907^

Dickinson, Burgess

5ii

1871 m

Bayley, Norman B.

479

1892/

Douglas, John M.

485

1893 s

Beall, Morris H.

502

1866

Downs, Harrison

418

1843

Beeson, William

342

1852

DuBois, John C.

366

1895/

Bellis, John A.

486

1886 S

Dyer, Joseph 0.

50i

1882
1861

Bennett, Samuel
Bent, Samuel A.

455
395

I850

Easter, John D.

362

1888

Bergstrom, Francis

460

1855

Edgar, John

379

1874 J

Bezjian, Hagop A.

495

184O

Egleston, N. H.

339

1865 m

Birch, James G.

478

1849

Eliot, Ellsworth

359

1889

Bishop, Ernest S.

461

1876

Ellwanger, Wm. D.

442

1902

Boder, Louis F.

470

1862

Ely, Charles W.

403

1850
1909

Bonbright, Daniel
Borden, William W.

360

475

1845
1898

Esty, Constantine C.
Evans, Thomas M.

353
467

1883

Bottome, George H.

458

I906S

Everett, S. Homer

5io

1903
1850

Brady, Charles A.
Brainerd, C. S., Jr.

470
36 t

1894

Ferguson, John M.

466

1889

1870^

1877

Brewster, Walter S.
Brinsmade, Daniel S.
Briscoe, Willis A.

462
493
444

iSSid
1869 s
1865

Fisk, Pliny B.
Folsom, Joseph R.
Forrest, Charles R.

515
492
417

1873

Bristow, Algernon T.

433

1856

French, Joseph R.

380

1865

Brooks, John E.

416

1876

Butler, Henry M.

442

1852/

Giddings, Frederick S

. 482

1854

Gordon, William W.

370

1848

Calhoun, David S.

355

1872/

Grece, William

484

1845

Carrington, Henry B.

348

1881

Carroll, Clarence F.

452

1857

Hallock, Joseph N.

385

1909 j

Cary, Robert H.

512

1881

Hart, Ernest E.

454

1904 d

Castor, George D.

519

1863

Haskell, Willabe

408

1863

Chamberlain, L. T.

406

1867

Hathorn, Frank H.

421

INDEX

527

Class

Page

Class

Page

1892

Hauslein, F. A.

464

1878

Peet, John N.

448

1874

Hedges, William

439

1870

Perkins, Charles E.

427

l86l

Higgins, Anthony

397

1862

Pitkin, Thomas H.

405

1904/

Hill, Benjamin F.

488

1873

Piatt, James P.

436

l866m

Hill, Seth

478

l88l

Poole, Leonard H.

455

1864

Hiller, Charles A.

413

1874*

Pratt, William S.

497

1895

Hone, Joseph B.

466

1859

Houston, Francis H.

39i

i860

Richards, Eugene L.

392

1872

Hubbard, Elbert, H.

432

1897/

Robbins, William V.

487

1869

Hull, Charles A.

424

1883*

Robert, Albert W.

499

1879

Hyde, Lewis H.

450

1908

Robertson, Wright H.

474

I9IO

Robinson, Arthur F.

476

1876

Jackson, Isaac M.

444

1857

Robinson, Michael W.

388

1857

Jackson, Joseph C.

386

1865*

Rogers, Harry

492

1895*

Jordan, Frank W.

504

1844

Rogers, Samuel T.

343

1874

Kennett, Alfred Q.

440

1883.?

Sayre, Charles L.

500

1887^

Knapp, Grayson G.

501

1910/

Shapiro, Meyer M.

488

1890 d

Smiley, Elmer E.

5i8

1893

Leavitt, Burton E.

464

1866

Southgate, Charles M.

419

1907

Leonard, Norman A.

473

1905^

Spencer, Joseph H.

509

1883 d

Lewis, Daniel M.

515

1875 d

Stevenson, John 0.

514

1868

Lewis, George H.

422

1873

Stewart, Seth T.

437

I85I

Lincoln, Francis R.

365

1898

Stimson, George P.

468

1903

Long, Arthur C.

471

1853

Stowell, Alexander D.

368

1898*

Sturges, Walter K.

507

I907.?

Merwin, Merritt B.

5ii

l86l

McLane, James W.

399

1876 s

Terry, Frank A.

499

1903

Manierre, Arthur

471

1907 m

Thompson, Frank W.

480

1870

Mann, Francis N.

426

1863

Tufts, George K.

409

1872.?

Maxwell, R. D. [M.]

495

1877

Tuttle, George M.

445

1899

Mayer, Albert J.

469

1895/

Mendell, Melville B.

486

1874*

Wagner, S. Harrison

498

I907.?

Merwin, Merritt B.

5ii

1844

Walker, Joseph B.

345

1888 d

Milne, Alexander

517

1853

Warren, Joseph

369

1905*

Mixter, William B.

509

1863

Washburn, Edward L.

411

1861

Moore, Nathaniel S.

401

1850

Welch, Moses C.

363

1897 «y

Munson, Paul B.

506

1894 s

Weller, William M.

503

1867

Weston, Homer

422

1880

Newcomb, James E.

45i

1864

Wheeler, Ralph

415

1872

Wheeler, William B.

433

1873

Ord, Joseph P.

435

1883 c/

Whitby, Henry J.

5i6

1864

Owen, Henry E.

414

1889

White, Edmund B.

463

1844

White, Jonathan

347

1888

Palmer, Lucius N.

461

1868

Williams, Thomas H.

424

1895^

Parker, Frank J.

505

1877

Williams, William P.

447

1854 *

Parsons, David B.

490

1906

Wood, Alexander J.

472

1848

Parsons, Henry M.

357

1864

Wood, Henry R.

415

1906

Payton, Edward S.

472

1854

Woodford, S. L.

372

1876/

Peck, Eugene B.

484

1847

Wright, D. Thew

354

1895

Peck, Tracy

467

i855

Wyman, William C.

379

,«Y

A

OBITUARY RECORD

OF

GRADUATES OF YALE UNIVERSITY

Deceased during the year ending
JUNE 1, 1914,

INCLUDING THE RECORD OF A FEW WHO DIED PREVIOUSLY
HITHERTO UNREPORTED

[No. 4 of the Sixth Printed Series, and No. 73 of the whole Record. The
present Series will consist of five numbers.]

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YTOTM Mki TO ZaTAIKM)

:UOIV3flq

J*

OBITUARY RECORD

OF

GRADUATES OF YALE UNIVERSITY

Deceased during the year ending
June i, 1914,

Including the Record of a few who died previously, hitherto unreported

[No. 4 of the Sixth Printed Series, and No. 73 of the whole Record.
The present Series will consist of five numbers.]

YALE COLLEGE

(academical department)

1840

Garwood Harvey Attwood was born in Woodbury,
Conn., December 5, 1818. His father was Harvey Att-
wood, through whose farm the dividing line between
Woodbury and Watertown ran. His mother was Betsy
(Guernsey) Attwood of Watertown. He prepared for
college by himself and under Rev. Grove L. Brownell
(Hon. M.A. Yale 1816) and Henry B. Sherman.

After graduation he attended two courses of lectures in
the Yale Medical School, and began practice with Dr. John
P. Elton in Watertown in 1842. He received the degree
of Doctor of Medicine from Yale in 1844. Later he
returned to his native town and bought the old home of
his ancestor, Dr. Jonathan Attwood, the earliest physician
of Woodbury. He continued in active practice there until
about 1898 or 1899, when he removed to the home of his
elder daughter in Waterbury.

He was a war democrat, but afterward a republican. He
held no political offices, but was justice of the peace and
registrar of births, marriages, and deaths.

532 YALE COLLEGE

From about 1868 he had been a member of the North
Congregational Church in Woodbury. He was not only a
student of medical science but was also strongly interested
in the metaphysical aspects of theology, and had a large
theological library, including hundreds of volumes of ser-
mons. He wrote articles on Woodbury, which were
published in Cothren's "History of Ancient Woodbury."

Dr. Attwood married at Woodbury, May 1, 1848, Hen-
rietta Elizabeth, daughter of Henry and Mary (Hard)
Judson. They were divorced about 1875. They had two
daughters, of whom the younger is deceased.

Dr. Attwood died from the infirmities of age and
apoplexy, at the Waterbury Hospital, February 1, 1914.
He was in his 96th year, and was the last survivor of
his class. But one graduate of an earlier class survives
him. Three of his four grandsons are graduates of the
University — two from the College in 1900 and 191 1,
respectively, and the third from the Sheffield Scientific
School in 1903. The youngest of the three, Wilfred Att-
wood Beardsley, is Instructor in French in the Sheffield
Scientific School.

1843

George Andrew Bryan, second son of Andrew and
Roxana (Peck) Bryan, was born December 15, 18 19, in
Waterbury, Conn. The name Andrew came originally
from Rev. Samuel Andrew (B.A. Harvard 1675), one oi
the original trustees of Yale College and for some years its
Rector.

He was prepared for college at the academy in Water-
bury and at Bacon Academy, Colchester, Conn., and under
the private instruction of Rev. Henry N. Day, LL.D.
(B.A. Yale 1828), but before entering college, he taught
for a year at Rocky Hill and Bristol, Conn.

1840-1845 533

After graduation he taught a select school in Stonington
two years, and then entered the Yale Divinity School, com-
pleting his course there in 1847. Then followed over forty
years of service in the ministry in Connecticut. June 13,
1849, he was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church
at Cromwell (Upper Middletown), where he continued
eight years. In September, 1858, he was installed over the
Congregational Church in West Haven, and remained there
eleven years. From 1869 to 1876 he was acting pastor at
Westbrook, from 1876 to 1884 at Preston, the next two
years at Wapping in South Windsor, and four years at
Scotland. At the close of his work there in 1890 he
retired from the ministry, and afterward made his home
in Norwich, where he was a member of the Broadway
Congregational Church. In 1869 he represented the town
of Orange in the state legislature.

Mr. Bryan died after two months of gradually failing
health at his home in Norwich, Conn., October 15, 191 3,
in the 94th year of his age. He was the last survivor of
his class. When the New London County Yale Alumni
Association was formed he was elected an honorary
member as the oldest graduate in the county.

He married, April 23, 1852, Mary Edwards Robbins,
youngest daughter of Asher Robbins (B.A. Yale 1810)
and Eliza (Chapin) Robbins, and granddaughter of Rev.
Calvin Chapin, D.D. (B.A. Yale 1788). She died Novem-
ber 4, 1867, and May 8, 1877, he married Elizabeth Hull
Browning of Preston, Conn., daughter of Thomas and Amy
(Prentice) Browning. She died in 1908. Mr. Bryan had
no children by either marriage.

i845
George Willard Goddard, youngest of the three sons
and fifth of the six children of Major Hezekiah Goddard

534 YALE COLLEGE

and Eunice (Rathbone) Goddard, was born July 3, 1824,
in New London, Conn.

His father was a merchant having ships engaged in the
West India trade. His grandmother, the wife of Daniel
Goddard, captain of minute men in 1776, was granddaughter
of Major Simon Willard who fought under Cromwell and
also against the Indian chief Ninigret.

He was prepared for college at the Boys' High School
in Norwich, Conn.

After graduation from college he studied law with
Walker & Bristol in New London, continued his course
in the Yale Law School, and finished his studies with Hon.
LaFayette S. Foster, LL.D. (B.A. Brown 1828) in Nor-
wich. He was admitted to the bar in 1848, and was for
a time in partnership with Louis Bristol, Esq. (B.A. Yale
1835), in New Haven. In 1855 he was appointed clerk
of the probate court of the district of New London. The
following year he was elected a member of the Connecticut
House of Representatives, and served as chairman of the
committee on new towns and probate districts. In 1859
his eyesight failed and for many years it was difficult
for him to do much business, nevertheless from 1862 to
1865 he was judge of the police and city court of New
London, and from 1864 to 1867 judge of the probate court.
In 1 87 1 he was a member of the New London board of
aldermen.

In 1881 he removed to his farm at Waterford, adjoining
New London, but his life had since been spent chiefly in
Springfield and New Salem, Mass., with extensive travel
in this country and Europe. He had a wonderful memory,
richly stored with poetry, and was a most interesting con-
versationalist. He died of old age in Rome, Italy, October
2, 191 3, at the age of 89 years. He was a brother of
John Calvin Goddard (B.A. Yale 1833) and uncle of Rev.
John Calvin Goddard (B.A. Yale 1873). He was the last
survivor but one of his class.

1845-1847 535

Judge Goddard married, January 22, 1880, Mary Adeline,
daughter of Hon. Jesse Burgess Thomas of Chicago,
former judge of the superior court of Illinois, and Adeline
Clarissa (Smith) Thomas. A son died in infancy in 1883,
but two daughters with Mrs. Goddard survive him. One
of the daughters graduated from Smith College in 1903,
and was later Instructor there.

1847

Frederick Augustus Copp, son of George Washington
and Sarah (Palmer) Copp, was born June 29, 1824, at
Wakefield, N. H. He joined his class in Sophomore year.

Since graduation he had been chiefly engaged in farming
in his native town, and also held various offices of trust.

He died after a period of declining health at Wakefield,
November 6, 1913, at the age of 89 years.

He married, March 14, 1862, Emily S. Paul, who died
March 2, 1892. They had no children.

Alfred Mills, son of Lewis and Sarah (Este) Mills,
was born July 24, 1827, in Morristown, N. J., where his
father was long a merchant. After preparation at the
Morristown Academy he joined his class in college in
Sophomore year.

After graduation he studied law three years in the office
of Hon. Edward W. Whelpley (B.A. Princeton 1834), and
in 185 1 was licensed as an attorney and in 1854 as a coun-
selor. He began practice by himself in Morristown, but in
1856 formed a partnership with Hon. Jacob W. Miller, which
came to an end with the death of the latter in 1862. Ten
years later with William E. Church he established the
firm of Mills & Church, which was dissolved in 1883, when
Mr. Church was made judge of the United States Circuit
Court of Dakota.

536 YALE COLLEGE

After this Mr. Mills continued actively engaged in his
profession, in recent years being associated with his sons,
former Judge Alfred E. Mills (B.A. Princeton 1882) and
former State Senator Edward K. Mills (B.A. Princeton
1896). In 1867 he was appointed prosecutor of the pleas
for Morris County, from 1874 to 1876 was mayor of Mor-
ristown, and was then Republican candidate for Congress
from his district, but without expectation of election. Most
of his time for many years had been devoted to the duties
of executor, trustee, and guardian. He aided in establish-
ing the Morristown Library and Lyceum, and since its
charter was granted in 1866 had been a director. He was
also a director of the First National Bank, and interested
in many other Morristown enterprises.

Mr. Mills had been an officer of St. Peter's Church fifty
years, having been elected vestryman in 1863, junior war-
den three years later, and serving as senior warden since
1873. When he declined reelection as lay delegate to the
Protestant Episcopal General Convention in 191 1 he had
served twelve terms — longer than any other lay member.
He was influential in securing the establishment of the
Diocese of Newark. He was for many years a member of
the standing committee of the Diocesan Convention, and
active in every administrative and missionary body of the
diocese. For a number of years he was a trustee of the
General Theological Seminary in New York City.

Mr. Mills died after several months of failing health at
his home in Morristown, December 13, 191 3, at the age
of 86 years.

He married, September 24, 1857, Katharine Elmer Coe,
daughter of Judge Aaron Coe and Katharine (Elmer) Coe,
of Westfield, N. J., who died in 1886. Of their six chil-
dren, two died in infancy, but the two sons (mentioned
above) and two daughters are living.

1847-1849 537

1 849

John Lawyer Hanes, son of Abraham and Catherine
(Lawyer) Hanes, was born May 29, 1824, at Fulton,
Schoharie County, N. Y. He entered college at the begin-
ning of Sophomore year.

After graduation he studied law a year in Schoharie and
also a year in New York City, where he was admitted to
the bar in December. 1851. In addition to his practice in
New York City, he cultivated a vineyard from 1856 to
1868 at Paterson, N. J., whither he removed in 1861.
From November, 1868, to January, 1876, he resided in
Martinsburg, W. Va., but since then he had been much of
the time in poor health and had lived in Paterson, where
he died of heart trouble at the home of his youngest daugh-
ter, June 17, ,1913, at the age of 89 years. He was a
member of the Congregational Church.

He married, November 1, 1855, Maria Dean of Brooklyn,
N. Y., by whom he had a daughter. Mrs. Hanes died
October 12, 1861, and January 15, 1863, he married Anna
Barbara, daughter of George and Anna Margaret
(Schneider) Miller, of Paterson. She died in October,
1904, but two sons and two daughters of this marriage
survive, a son and daughter having died. One of the
sons (B.A. Bowdoin 1897), who spelled his name Haines,
was a non-graduate member of the Yale College Class of
1896.

Charles Augustus Lewis Richards, son of Wolcott
Richards (M.D. Yale 1825) and Indiana (Twiggs)
Richards, was born March 30, 1830, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He was prepared for college at the Woodward High School
and the private school of E. S. Brooks in that city.

After graduation from college he began the study of
medicine in the Cincinnati Medical College (later included

538 YALE COLLEGE

in the University of Cincinnati), and completed his course
at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, receiving
there the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1852. He prac-
ticed medicine in Cincinnati until 1854, when on account of
the death of his wife he gave up that profession, and after
spending a year in general study, was for three years a
student in the Theological Seminary in the Diocese of
Virginia at Alexandria. He was ordained Deacon in
1858 and Priest in 1859. From September, 1858, to Octo-
ber, 1861, he preached in St. James's Church, Great Barring-
ton, Mass., was then rector of the Church of the Saviour
in West Philadelphia, Pa., until July, 1865, then of
Trinity Church, Columbus, O., until 1869. From 1867 to
1870 he was a trustee of Kenyon College.

In December, 1869, he became rector of St. John's
Church, Providence, R. I., where he was in active service
for thirty-one years. During this period the church made
a large growth, a parish house was built, and mission and
institutional work established. He received the degree of
Doctor of Divinity from Griswold College (Iowa) in 1883.
In March, 1901, he became rector emeritus and was
succeeded in the rectorship by Rev. Lester Bradner (B.A.
Yale 1889).

Dr. Richards was for many years a trustee of the Rhode
Island Hospital and of the Providence Public Library.

He died suddenly of arterio-sclerosis at his home in
Providence, March 20, 1914, at the age of nearly 84 years.

He married at Sandy Hill, N. Y., September 1, 1853,
Emma, daughter of Frederick Weston. She died in Sep-
tember, 1854, and December 28, 1863, ne married Mary
White Wiltbank, daughter of Edwin W. and Elizabeth
(McPherson) Wiltbank, of Philadelphia. They had two
sons, of whom one died in infancy, and four daughters.
Mrs. Richards with the five children survive him.

1849 539

John Willard was born November 10, 1826, in Hart-
ford, Conn. His parents were Asaph Willard, a steel
engraver, and Sophronia (Wells) Willard.

After graduation he spent a year teaching at Manchester,
Conn., and then entered Andover Theological Seminary,
where he continued until December, 1854, the last term as
a resident licentiate. January 25, 1855, he was ordained
pastor of the First Congregational Church of Fairhaven,
Mass., and remained there nearly twelve years. During
1864 he was in Europe seven months. After his pastorate
in Fairhaven he resided in Hartford, Conn., three years,
for four years following was acting pastor at Birmingham
(now Derby, West Side), Conn., and from 1873 to 1879
was pastor of the Union Congregational Church, Marlboro,
Mass. He then spent three years at Newtonville, Mass.,
and from February, 1883, to October, 1891, was pastor of
the First Congregational Church at Decorah, la. After
this pastorate he retired from the active ministry, and had
since that time resided in Chicago, 111., where he died of
degeneration of the heart muscles, after an illness of four
weeks, December 1, 1913, at the age of 87 years. The
burial was in Hartford, Conn.

He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., November 13, 1855,
Catherine E., daughter of Jonathan D. Steele, formerly
president of the Niagara Insurance Co., and Charlotte
(Richards) Steele, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Their golden wed-
ding was celebrated in 1905. Mrs. Willard survives him
with two of their sons and three daughters. The eldest
son (B.A. Amherst 1878) died in 1885. One of the sur-
viving sons is a non-graduate of Amherst College and
Congregational pastor in San Jose, Calif., and the other
(M.D. Rush Med. College 1878) a physician in Chicago,
111. The second daughter, who is principal of the boarding
school for girls in connection with Anatolia College at
Marsovan, Turkey, received the degree of Bachelor of
Arts from Smith College in 1883.

54° YALE COLLEGE

1851

John Boardman Brooks, one of the three children of
Birdseye and Emily (Booth) Brooks, was born in New
Haven, Conn., April 11, 1832.

After graduation he was more or less closely associated
with his father in the boat building business in New Haven
for about ten years. In May, 1852, he entered the United
States Coast Survey, and remained a year, stationed most of
the time at Galveston, Texas. He then returned to New
Haven, but spent much time in the winter season in travel.
From 1857 to J859 he was in Minnesota, where he took up
government land near Kingston and was there when Min-
nesota was admitted to the Union. Following his father's
removal to Bridgeport, about 1866 he formed the firm of
Thatcher & Brooks, succeeding his father's firm of Brooks
& Thacher. In 1882 he removed to Lake Minnetonka,
Minn., and since then had lived on its shore, having at
Maplewood a boat building shop for twenty years or more,
and doing much to stimulate interest and skill in yachting.

Captain Brooks died after a lingering illness at the North-
western Hospital, Minneapolis, Minn., May 4, 1914, at the
age of 82 years, and was buried in Minneapolis. He was
a deacon in the Congregational Church at Wayzata.

He married in Minneapolis, June 20, 1894, Sarah, daugh-
ter of John and Margaret (Van Tuyl) Boyce, who survives
him. They had no children.

Jonathan Leavitt Jenkins, son of Rev. Charles Jen-
kins (B.A. Williams 1813), was born November 23, 1830,
at Portland, Me. His father died when he was a year old.
His mother was Amelia M., daughter of Hon. Jonathan
Leavitt (B.A. Yale 1785) and Amelia (Stiles) Leavitt of
Greenfield, Mass., and granddaughter of President Stiles
of Yale College. He was prepared for college in New
Haven under Hon. Henry B. Harrison (B.A. Yale 1846).

1851 54i

After graduation he taught a year in Leicester (Mass.)
Academy, then entered the Yale Divinity School, and while
there also taught during most of 1853 and 1854 in the
Collegiate and Commercial Institute of General William H.
Russell (B.A. Yale 1833). Completing his course in 1855,
on October 17 he was ordained pastor of the First Con-
gregational Church in Lowell, Mass., where he continued
a little over six years. In 1862 he was in the service of
the American Board in Boston as district secretary for
southern New England, and in 1863-64 preached at the
South Church, Salem, Mass. In April, 1864, he became
pastor of the Pearl Street Congregational Church in Hart-
ford, Conn., and remained there nearly three years. He
was then pastor of the First Congregational Church in
Amherst, Mass., ten years, being called thence in 1877 to
the pastorate of the First Congregational Church in Pitts-
field, Mass., where he became widely known and influential
in the religious life of Berkshire County. Of this church
a. cousin of President Stiles was one of the founders.
Resigning after a pastorate of fifteen years, he was from
1893 to 1900 in charge of the State Street Congregational
Church in Portland, Me. After that he resided for ten
years in Jamaica Plain, Mass., without charge, but since
the death of his wife in the summer of 191 1 had lived in
Boston. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of
Divinity from Williams College in 1889. In 1913 he
attended Commencement at Williams College to celebrate
the one hundredth anniversary of his father's graduation
there.

While visiting in Pittsfield, Dr. Jenkins was taken with
bladder trouble, of which he died at the House of Mercy
Hospital two weeks later, August 15, 1913. He was in his
83d year.

He married in Lowell, Mass., October 15, 1862, Sarah
Maria, daughter of Wooster Eaton, and had two daughters,

542 YALE COLLEGE

of whom one died in infancy, and two sons, who graduated
from Williams College in 1890 and 1900, respectively.

1853

Josiah Stoddard Johnston, son of John Harris and
Eliza Ellen (Davidson) Johnston, was born February 10,
1833, in New Orleans, La. He was named for his father's
brother, who was United States senator from 1822 to 1833.
His parents died when he was very young, and he was
brought up by his mother's sister, the wife of Colonel
George Hancock of Jefferson County, Ky. He was pre-
pared for college at the Western Military Institute at
Georgetown, Ky., and entered college at the beginning of
Sophomore year.

After graduation he studied law in the University of
Louisville, from which he received the degree of Bachelor
of Laws in 1854, and the same year was admitted to the
bar. The following year he removed to Old Town Ridge,
Ark., and engaged in cotton planting until 1859, when he
returned to Kentucky and settled in Georgetown as a
farmer.

During the Civil War he was in the Confederate Army,
successively on the staffs of Generals Bragg and Buckner,
and then for eighteen months chief of staff to General
J. C. Breckenridge, being in twenty battles and skirmishes,
and gaining the rank of Colonel.

After the war he practiced law in Helena, Ark., a year,
but in 1867 removed to Frankfort, Ky., where he edited
the Kentucky Yeoman until 1886, and became also the
publisher and one of the proprietors. During these twenty
years he was secretary of the Democratic State Central
Committee, and part of the time its chairman. He was
a delegate to the National Democratic Conventions of 1884
and 1888. He was adjutant-general of Kentucky in 1870-71,
and secretary of state from 1875 to 1879. He was a can-

i853 ■ 543

didate for the nomination for governor in the Democratic
State Convention of 1875.

Since 1886 he had lived in Louisville, Ky., until a few
months before his death, and was an editorial writer for
the Courier-Journal from 1903 to 1908.

For sixteen years he was president of the Kentucky
Press Association. He spent much time in Abilene, Tex.,
a town which he founded.

He was active in promoting the development of the lum-
ber and mineral resources of Kentucky, and was a strong
supporter of the work of the State Geological Survey.
He edited "The First Explorations of Kentucky, with the
Journals of Dr. Thomas Walker in 1750 and Christopher
Gist in 175 1," 1898, which was published in the Filson Club
Publications, No. 13. Of this club he was vice-president.
He wrote "The Confederate Graduates of Yale," in Kings-
ley's "Yale College," 1879, and also edited the "Memorial
History of Louisville," 2 vols., 1896, and a "Confederate
History of Kentucky," 1890. On various occasions he
delivered addresses on educational, historical, and scien-
tific subjects. He was president of the Yale Alumni
Association of Kentucky from 1890 to 1902.

He married, June 13, 1854, Eliza Woolfolls, daughter of
George W. Johnson, of Georgetown, Ky., who lost his life
at the battle of Shiloh. Mrs. Johnston died in 1901. They
had three sons and two daughters. The eldest son gradu-
ated from the Academical Department in 1883, and has a
son in the Class of 1917.

Colonel Johnston died from hardening of the arteries at
the home of his son, Harris Hancock, at Clayton, Mo., a
suburb of St. Louis, October 4, 1913. He was in his 81st
year. The elder daughter and the sons survive. He was
a cousin of Colonel William Preston Johnston, LL.D.
(B.A. Yale 1852).

544 YALE COLLEGE

Charles Lloyd Thomas, son of Charles Gillespie and
Barbara Elizabeth (Eckert) Thomas, was born January
II, 1831, at Milton, Pa. He was named for Charles Lloyd,
his father's foster-father. In his boyhood the family
removed to a log cabin on the future site of Peoria, 111.,
and later to Rock Island, Fremont, and Galina in the same
state. The year before entering college he rode by stage
coach all the way to New Haven, where he studied in the
Hopkins Grammar School.

After graduation he taught school and studied law in
Mississippi three years. He continued this law study in
Chicago under Judge Grant Goodrich in the office of Far-
well & Smith, and soon became junior partner in the firm
of Farwell, Smith & Thomas. About a year later his
health began to fail and he was almost totally blind for
three months. In December, i860, he gave up his law
practice, and availed himself of an opportunity to enter
mercantile life. Since then he had been connected with the
wholesale dry goods firm of Taylor, Symonds & Co., later
the Taylor- Symonds Co., in Providence, R. I.

During the early years of his residence in Providence he
served three years in the city council. He was at first
an active member of the Beneficent Church, but since then
had been closely identified with the Central Congregational
Church. After twenty years of poor health Mr. Thomas
died from the infirmities of age at his home in Providence,
November 26, 191 3, in the 83d year of his age.

He married, June 19, 1861, Sophia Sarah, eldest daughter
of Amos C. Barstow of Providence, and had four sons
and two daughters, of whom one son and the daughters
are deceased. The surviving sons graduated from the
Academical Department: Edward S. in 1888, George H.
in 1895, and Arthur A. in 1901.

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i«54

Henry Elias Howland, son of Aaron Prentice How-
land, an architect, and Huldah (Burke) Howland, was
born June 30, 1835, at Walpole, N. H. He was prepared
for college there, and at the Kimball Union Academy in
Meriden, N. H.

After graduation he studied law a year in Walpole with
Judge Frederick Vose (B.A. Harvard 1822), and two years
in the Harvard Law School, receiving the degree of
Bachelor of Laws from Harvard in* 1857. He was
admitted to the New York bar in October of that year,
and was associated with John Sherwood (B.A. Yale 1839)
in the practice of his profession until 1878, when, with
Henry H. Anderson (B.A. Williams 1848), the firm of
Anderson, Howland, & Murray was formed. Soon after
the death of Mr. Anderson in 1896, Mr. Rowland's firm
became Howland, Murray, & Prentice, consisting of himself,.
George Welwood Murray, and E. Parmalee Prentice (B.A.
Amherst 1885). Later his son (B.A. Yale 1891) was
admitted to the firm. He was a director of the Lawyers
Title Insurance Co., the Lawyers Mortgage Co., and the
Mortgage Bond Co.

During 1862 he was in the United States service for
three months as sergeant of Company G, 22d Regiment,
New York National Guard, at Baltimore . and Harper's
Ferry and the following year served as captain of the same
regiment during the Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania,

In 1873 he was appointed judge of the Marine (now
City) Court of New York to fill a vacancy, and held the
office for a year. For three years (1875- 1877) ne was
annually elected a member of the Board of Aldermen. In
1880 he was appointed by Mayor Cooper president of the
department of taxes for four years, but resigned after a
few months on account of his private business.

Judge Howland received the honorary degree of Master
of Arts from Yale University in 1893. He was first

54^ YALE COLLEGE

elected an Alumni Fellow of the Yale Corporation in 1892
and continued in the office for three terms, withdrawing
in 1910. At the special meeting of alumni in 1909 he was
appointed chairman of the Yale Civil War Memorial Com-
mittee. From 1893 to 1895 he was president of the Yale
Alumni Association of New York (later the Yale Club).
He was in frequent request as an after-dinner speaker, and
presided at the Cambridge, England, Yale dinner in Octo-
ber, 1895, and also on many other notable Yale occasions.
From 1901 to 1904 he was president of the New York Uni-
versity Club, and since its foundation in 1879 na^ been a
member of its council.

He was active in many philanthropic, civic, and social
organizations, serving as president of the Society for the
Relief of the Destitute Blind in the City of New York since
1898, president of the managers of the Manhattan State
Hospital from 1895 to 1905, and trustee of the Marion
Street Maternity Hospital, and was for many years con-
nected with the State Charities Aid Association. He was
a trustee of the New York Free Circulating Library (now
included in the New York Free Library). He was presi-
dent of the Society for the Preservation of the Adirondacks,
in 1 901 taking active part in preventing the destruction of
the forests by contractors. He was a vestryman and warden
of the Church of the Ascension.

Judge Howland died after an illness of two years from
paralysis at his home in New York City, November 7,
1913, at the age of 78 years. The interment was in
Walpole, N. H.

He married in New York City, October 5, 1865, Louisa,
daughter of Jonathan Miller. She died February 6, 1884,
and February 1, 1894, he married Mrs. Anna J. W. Curtis,
widow of Dr. Thomas B. Curtis and daughter of Joseph S.
Lovering of Boston, Mass., who survives him. Two sons
and a daughter by his first marriage are also living, three

i§54 547

daughters having died. The sons graduated from the
College in 1891 and 1894, respectively.

William Henry Palmer, son of Hezekiah and Lucy
(Bugbee) Palmer, was born May 25, 1829, in Woodstock,
Conn. He was fitted for college in the Woodstock
Academy.

After graduation he taught school in Williamsburg,
Mass., and Syracuse, N. Y., two years, studied medicine in
the Harvard Medical School in 1857-58, and finished his
course in the New York University Medical School, receiv-
ing his degree from the latter in 1859. After practicing
in Syracuse about a year, he was appointed August 26,
1 86 1, surgeon of the Third New York Cavalry, and served
with it at the front in the Civil War three years, then
spent a year in Rochester, N. Y., recovering his health.
April 10, 1865, he became acting staff surgeon, United
States Army, and was in charge of the hospitals in Rich-
mond and its vicinity until September, 1866.

He then settled in Providence, R. I., where he engaged
in general practice. June 10, 1872, he was elected deputy
superintendent of health of that city and four years later
acting surgeon of the Providence police force. This office
he held until 1891, when he became police surgeon. From
1875 to J884 he was also a coroner. From June, 1884, until
1902, he held, by appointment from the governor, the office
of medical examiner of the County of Providence.

Dr. Palmer was especially interested in medico-legal
matters, and was the first president of the Rhode Island
Medico-Legal Society, which was organized at his office
June 11, 1885. He was also a member of the New York
Medico-Legal Society, and contributor to medico-legal and
medical journals. He was a member of the Providence
Medical Association, and a fellow of the Rhode Island
Medical Society, of which he was president in 1891 and
1892.

548 YALE COLLEGE

Since his retirement from practice about 1900 he had
traveled or lived at the family home in North Woodstock,
where he died August 3, 19 12. He was 83 years of age.

He married, October 7, 1862, Fanny, daughter of Henry
and Mary Catherine (Sharp) Purdy of New York City,
who with their son and daughter survives him. Mrs.
Palmer is the author of poems and stories, including "A
Dead Level," and was for a time state inspector of factories
and workshops in Rhode Island. The daughter (B.A.
Bryn Mawr 1893) was from 1895 to 1898 Librarian at
Bryn Mawr College.

1855

Alfred Bolivar Miller was born April 3, 1831, at
Chenango, N. Y. His parents were Harold and Sophronia
(Stone) Miller. He joined the class as a Sophomore from
Lafayette College.

After graduation he taught two years in Lawrence
Academy, Groton, Mass., and the next two years was prin-
cipal of Susquehanna Seminary at Binghamton, N. Y. He
then returned to Lawrence Academy, at first as teacher of
mathematics, but in 1865 was appointed principal. This
position he held till 1867. He received the degree of Master
of Arts in 1865. From 1868 to 1871 he was Tutor in Yale
College, and for three years following teacher in Maple-
wood Institute at Pittsfield, Mass. In 1874 he became
superintendent of schools in Warren, Pa., and continued in
that office sixteen years. In May, 1892, he removed to
New Haven, Conn., where he engaged in private tutoring.
He was a deacon of the United Congregational Church
twelve years.

Mr. Miller died at his home in New Haven, August 13,
1913, at the age of 82 years. He was buried in New
Haven.

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He married in New Haven, September 16, 1873, Kathe-
rine, daughter of Rev. Robert Wilson Hume (B.A. Union
College 1834) and Hannah Derby (Sackett) Hume,
who were missionaries of the American Board at the
Marathi Mission in Western India, and sister of Rev.
Robert A. Hume, D.D. (B.A. Yale 1868), and Rev. Edward
S. Hume (B.A. Yale 1870). Mrs. Miller survives him with
their two sons, the elder a graduate of the Academical
Department in 1897.

John Lawrence Mills, son of Hiram and Lydia (Gay-
lord) Mills, was born September 18, 1832, at Norfolk,
Conn., and was prepared for college at the Norfolk
Academy.

After graduation he taught a year, was a student in
Union Theological Seminary, New York City, from 1856
to 1858, then Tutor in Yale College the next three years,
and a student of theology in New Haven the year follow-
ing. He preached at Seymour, Conn., until about March
1, 1864, during the last four months of that time also having
charge of the Congregational Church in Ansonia. On
account of ill health he gave up preaching, and engaged
in business for a short time, but in March, 1865, he went
to Marietta, O., and was Professor of Mathematics, Natural
Philosophy, and Astronomy in Marietta College until 1866,
and then Professor of the Latin Language and Literature
there until 1881.

While teaching he organized in 1871 the Dime Savings
Society, of which he was president until 1884. For a num-
ber of years he managed a shoe store for an estate so that
the heirs realized the full amount invested. He was con-
nected with other business enterprises, and was for a time
head of the Iterator Printing Co. For several years he
was a member of the city board of examiners, a park com-
missioner, and for three years a member of the school
board and its treasurer. He often aided the smaller local

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churches by supplying their pulpits. In 1890 he founded
Elizabeth College for Women in Marietta, so named in
honor of his wife, and was its president until 1893, after
which it was made a part of Marietta College.

After some years of impaired health, Mr. Mills died
from dropsical troubles at his home in Marietta, June 14,
1913, in the 81st year of his age. He was a member of
the First Congregational Church.

He married at Norfolk, Conn., July 13, 1865, Elizabeth
Halsey Lawrence, daughter of E. Grove Lawrence (B.A.
Union 1827) and Jerusha Pettibone (Stevens) Lawrence,
and sister of Grove Pettibone Lawrence (B.A. Yale 1856).
They had two sons — the elder (B.A. Marietta 1885) — and
two daughters.

Charles Ray Palmer, son of Rev. Ray Palmer, D.D.
(B.A. Yale 1830), author of "My Faith looks up to Thee,"
was born May 2, 1834, in New Haven, Conn., where his
father was teaching in, and was later principal of the Young
Ladies' Institute of Professor Ethan A. Andrews (B.A.
Yale 1 8 10) on Wooster Place. His mother was Ann
Maria, daughter of Marmaduke Waud, a merchant of
Albany, N. Y., of English birth. During his boyhood his
father was pastor in Bath, Me., and he was prepared for
college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. He entered
college from Albany, N. Y., where in 1850 his father had
become pastor of the First Congregational Church.

After graduation he was tutor in a private family at
Rodney, Miss., a year, and then took the course in Andover
Theological Seminary, graduating there in 1859. From
October of that year until the following March he was a
resident licentiate at Andover. After a few months at
Albany he was ordained August 29, i860, pastor of the
Tabernacle Congregational Church in Salem, Mass. He
continued at Salem until 1872, when he resigned to accept
a call to the First Congregational Church in Bridgeport,

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Conn. After a pastorate of twenty-three years there, and
at the close of the Bicentennial Anniversary of the church,
he resigned and since then had been pastor emeritus of
the church. For some months in 1897 he supplied the
Kensington Congregational Church in London, England.

From 1880 until his resignation in 1910, he was a Fellow
of the Corporation of Yale University, and from 1885 of
its Prudential Committee.

He was for many years chairman of the prudential com-
mittee of the General Hospital Society of Connecticut in
New Haven. From 1864 to 1881 he was a director and
for some years secretary of the Society for the Promotion
of Collegiate and Theological Education, and from 1871
to 1 90 1 was a corporate member of the American Board
of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. In December,
1882, he was elected an associate member of the Victoria
Institute of Christian Philosophy, London. Previous to
1872 he was a trustee of Dummer Academy at Byfield,
Mass., and from 1879 to 1882 of Talladega (Ala.) College.
He was deeply interested in the Burroughs Home for
Women in Bridgeport and was for a time its secretary.

He served as a delegate of Yale University and the
National Council of Congregational Churches of the United
States at the formal opening of Mansfield College, the
Congregational College of Oxford, England, in October,
1889, and also preached at the College, his sermon on
"Preaching Christ to Men" being printed. During his
absence abroad the degree of Doctor of Divinity was con-
ferred upon him by Yale University. Under the auspices
of the National Congregational Council he delivered an
oration at the unveiling of the memorial tablet in Leyden,
Holland, to John Robinson, July 24, 189 1. A paper of his
entitled, "The Pilgrim Fathers and What They Wrought,"
was published by the Fairfield County Historical Society.
"The Pilgrim Fathers" was published by the Congrega-
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the Bicentennial Celebration of the First Congregational
Church and Society of Bridgeport, Conn., in June, 1895,
he gave the Historical Discourse, afterwards published.
He was president of the Connecticut Branch of the Egyp-
tian Exploration Fund, and a director of the New Haven
Colony Historical Society, to which he contributed a
number of papers.

Dr. Palmer died of cerebral hemorrhage at his home in
New Haven, April 22, 1914, in the 80th year of his age.
He was buried in the Albany (N. Y.) Rural Cemetery.

He married, in Brooklyn, N. Y., February 10, 1869,
Mary Chapin Barnes, eldest daughter and second of the ten
children of Alfred Smith Barnes, the publisher, and Har^
riet (Burr) Barnes, and sister of Henry Burr Barnes
(B.A. Yale 1866) and William DeLuce Barnes (B.A.
Yale 1880). Mrs. Palmer died April 24, 1888, but a
daughter, who is the wife of Arthur Ellsworth Foote (B.A.
Yale 1896), survives him. His only son died in his Senior
year in college, but was enrolled with his Class of 1892.
In his memory Dr. Palmer established the Alfred Barnes
Palmer Scholarship. A sister, with whom Dr. Palmer
made his home, is the last survivor of their father's ten
children.

1856

Henry Billings Brown, son of Billings Brown, a
manufacturer, and Mary (Tyler) Brown, was born March
2, 1836, at South Lee, Mass. He entered college from
Ellington, Conn.

After graduation he spent over a year abroad in the
study of languages and travel, and then studied law with
Hon. John H. Brockway (B.A. Yale 1820) in Ellington,
Conn., and about seven months each in the Yale and Har-
vard Law Schools. In December, 1859, he took up his
residence in Detroit, Mich., and was admitted to the bar

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there in July, i860. From May, 1861, to May, 1868, he
was assistant United States district attorney for the
eastern district of Michigan, and for a few months follow-
ing filled an unexpired term as judge of the Wayne County
circuit court. He then practiced his profession in Detroit
in partnership with Hon. John S. Newberry (B.A. Univ.
Mich. 1847) and Ashley Pond (B.A. Univ. Mich. 1854)
until 1875, when President Grant appointed him judge of
the United States district court for the eastern district of
Michigan. This office he held until December, 1890, when
he was nominated by President Harrison Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States. After serving
with distinction for nearly sixteen years he retired from
this office in May, 1906, but had since continued to reside
in Washington.

Justice Brown received the degree of Doctor of Laws
from the University of Michigan in 1887 and from Yale
in 1 89 1. He was an authority on admiralty law, and pub-
lished "Admiralty Reports." He was Lecturer on Admir-
alty Law in the University of Michigan from 1887 to 1893,
and also on Patent Law in 1890-91. In the winter of 1887
he traveled in Italy and Sicily with his classmate, Professor
Levi L. Paine, and he made many other trips abroad.

He died of heart disease after an illness of two weeks
at the Hotel Gramatan, Bronxville, N. Y., September 4,
1913, at the age of J J years. He was buried in Detroit.

He married in Detroit, July 13, 1864, Caroline, daughter
of Samuel Pitts, a lumberman, formerly of Portland, Me.
She died at Riva, on Lake Gardo, Austria, July 11, 1901.
July 25, 1904, he married Mrs. Josephine E. Tyler, of
Crosswicks, N. J., widow of Lieutenant Frederick H. Tyler,
of the United States Navy. She survives him. He had no
children by either marriage. By his will he left a bequest
to Yale University, and a collection of paintings to the
Detroit Museum.

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Theron Brown was born April 29, 1832, in Willimantic,
Conn., and was the son of Eliphalet and Ermina (Preston)
Brown. He was prepared for college at the Connecticut
Literary Institution at Suffield, and entered college at the
beginning of Sophomore year from Westford, Conn.

After graduation he studied at East Windsor (now
Hartford) Theological Seminary, two years, but finished
his Divinity course at Newton (Mass.) Theological Insti-
tution. He was ordained at South Framingham, Mass.,
in December, 1859, an(^ preached there two years, and then
took a special course in Hebrew in Newton Theological
Institution. In 1862 he preached at the First Baptist
Church in Hartford, Conn., and in Willington, Conn.

At this time he began contributing to religious journals,
and during the winter of 1862-63 wrote for the Watchman
and Reflector (later called the Watchman) and the Youth's
Companion. In March, 1863, he was settled over the
Baptist Church in Canton, Mass., and remained there until
failing voice compelled him to give up the ministry in 1870.
During that year he joined the staff of the Youth's Com-
panion as a contributing editor, in 1882 became orifice
editor, and continued his work on that paper to the end
of his life.

In 1870 he removed to Norwood, Mass., and resided
there twenty years, for many years being superintendent
of the Sunday school of the Baptist Church, and during
fifteen years serving on the school board. Since April,
1890, his home had been in Newtonville, Mass.

Many of his stories and other writings have been widely
popular. His published volumes include "The Red Shanty
Series," 1875-80; "The Blount Family" and "Walter
Neal's Example," 1876; "Stories for Sunday," 1877;
"Life Songs," 1894 (a collection of his poems compiled
by the Youth's Companion staff) ; "Nameless Women of
the Bible," 1904; and "The Story of the Hymns and
Tunes" 1907. A large number of his poems have been

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printed in The Congregationalist, Independent, Overland
Monthly, and Harper's Weekly. He was also long a
contributor to the Boston Transcript.

He wrote many poems on historical, religious, and
patriotic themes. "King David," written in 1857, led to
his giving recitals of his poems in various towns. His
principal historical poems were delivered at the Medfield,
Mass., Baptist Church Centennial (1876), the Hartford
Theological Seminary Semicentennial (1883), the Bicen-
tennial of the town of Windham, Conn. (1892), and the
Quarter-Millennial Celebration of the City of Maiden, Mass.
(1899). The Windham poem, known as the "Epic of
Windham," has a general historical value as a vivid por-
trayal of colonial life. For many years he wrote hymns
for the services of the Ruggles Street Baptist Church in
Boston, some of which have been included in collections
of hymns. For the opening of Tremont Temple in Boston
in 1896 and other occasions he wrote dedicatory poems. He
frequently contributed poems for academic anniversaries
and martial and patriotic poems for regimental reunions.
Among these, "The Battle of Drury's Bluff," "The
Battle above the Clouds," and "The Third of April, '65"
were notable.

Mr. Brown had been Historian of his class since 1896,
and prepared the forty-year and subsequent Records of
the class. He had attended every class reunion, for many
of which he wrote a poem. He read a poem at the annual
meeting of the Boston Yale Alumni in 1886.

He died at his home in Newtonville, Mass., February
14, 1914, in his 82d year, after an illness of about a year.
The burial was at Willington Hill, Conn.

He married at Willington, Conn., November 2y, 1859,
Helen Mar Preston, daughter of Sylvester T. and Fear
(Glazier) Preston, and had a son and daughter, both of
whom are deceased. Mrs. Brown died in August, 19 10.

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1858

Chauncey Seymour Kellogg, eldest of the four children
Of Horace Dry den and Mary Ann (Netterville) Stewart
Kellogg, was born September 12, 1837, in Woodville,
Miss., but was of New England ancestry. In 1848 he
went to the old homestead at West Winfield, N. Y., and
after preparation in Farmington, Conn., entered college
from Bridgewater, N. Y. He was a member of the Class
of 1857 for five or six months in Freshman year, but joined
the Class of 1858 the following fall. He was an editor of
the Yale Literary Magazine, and won the DeForest medal.

On graduation he became a cotton planter near Wood-
ville, but in May, 1861, entered the Confederate army as
fifth sergeant of a rifle company raised in his home county
of Wilkinson, and in May, 1862, was elected third lieutenant
of the Sixteenth Mississippi Infantry. Soon afterward his
health failed and in October he resigned and returned
home. In February, 1875, he removed to McComb City,
Miss., where he taught for some years and from 1885 to
1889 was postmaster. In the spring of 1892 his health
failed, and he never fully recovered. From 1901 to 1903
he was assistant postmaster at Donner, La., but since then
had lived in New Orleans, where he died at his home,
January 31, 1914, in the 77th year of his age. He was
buried at McComb.

He married at Woodville, September 1, 1864, Amy Eliza-
beth, daughter of Henry James Butterworth, of Newburgh,
N. Y., and Alice Sophia (Smith) Butterworth, of Port
Gibson, Miss., who survives him. They had no children.

Brinley Dering Sleight, son of William Rysam and
Anna Charlotte (Dering) Sleight, was born at Sag Har-
bor, Long Island, N. Y., March 11, 1835. His father was
an owner and outfitter of whale ships and a partner in the
firm of Mulford & Sleight.

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He was prepared for college by Rev. C. S. Williams,
was a member of the Class of 1857 during a part of its
Freshman year, and entered the Class of 1858 the first
term of Sophomore year.

After graduation he at once became contributor to the
Corrector, a weekly paper of Sag Harbor, established in
1822 as a Whig organ, and in 1859 bought the paper from
Colonel Henry W. Hunt, becoming publisher and editor in
partnership with Alexander A. Hunt, son of Colonel Hunt.
He changed it to a Democratic paper, and during his active
connection with it of more than fifty years there was not
a week in which he did not contribute an editorial or news
item. In 1870 he was member of the New York Assembly,
from 1886 to 1888 clerk of the committee on foreign
affairs and from 1893 to 1895 of the committee on patents
of the National House of Representatives, and while in
Albany and Washington sent to the Corrector letters on
political matters.

For a time in i860, Mr. Sleight issued his paper as a
campaign daily, but found the field too small. In April,
1865, he bought the printing establishment of the Schoharie
(N. Y.) Republican, and in 1868 he was joint editor and
publisher of that paper also, with Mr. Hunt, but later
sold it to his partner.

For over forty years he was a member of the board of
education of Sag Harbor, and for most of that period,
secretary of the board. From 1873 to 1885 he was a
magistrate of the town of East Hampton, and from 1876
to 1883 a trustee of the village of Sag Harbor, and
president of the board of trustees one term.

Mr. Sleight died of Bright's disease at his home in Sag
Harbor December 10, 19 13, in the 79th year of his age.

He married at Sag Harbor, October 17, 1865, Susan
Jane, daughter of Albert Gallatin and Elmira (Halsey)
Hedges, and descended from the same stock of early set-
tlers of Long Island as Hon. Henry P. Hedges (B.A.

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Yale 1838), but not closely related to him. Mrs. Sleight and
a daughter are deceased, but three sons survive. His young-
est brother (LL.B. Yale 1876) died in 1881.

i860

Joseph Clay, son of Thomas Savage Clay (B.A. Har-
vard 1819), was born in Bryan County, Ga., December 10,
1838. His mother was before marriage Miss Matilda
Willis McAllister. His father died when he was but ten
years old, and his mother lived in New Haven while he
was in college. He was prepared for college at General
Russell's Collegiate and Commercial Institute in New
Haven. •

The family had for several generations been planters,
and after graduation he returned to his home on the Ogee-
chee River to become a planter, but the Civil War destroyed
his plans and his property. On account of the nearness
of the sea and of Fort McAllister, he removed his
mother and family to the interior of the state. Sher-
man's army occupied his plantation for several weeks, and
burned the house. The slaves were strongly attached to
their master, and all of them remained with him until
scattered by emancipation. He took no active part in the
war personally. After the war he resumed rice planting,
at first on the old plantation, and later on the Savannah
River, and was meeting with some success when in 1893
his property was so devastated by gales and floods that
he gave up planting, and entered the Engineering Depart-
ment of the United States Government under Captain
Carter. In 1909 owing to ill health he was compelled to
retire from active work.

He died at his home in Brunswick, Ga., March 26, 1914,
at the age of 75 years, but was buried in Savannah. He
was an elder in the Presbyterian Church.

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Mr. Clay married, November 13, 1865, Mary Eliza,
daughter of Dr. Brodie Strachan Herndon of Fredericks-
burg, Va., chief surgeon of the hospitals in Richmond dur-
ing the Civil War, and then a resident of Savannah, Ga.
She died February 1, 1878, but their son and daughters
survive. A brother left the Class of 1864 to join the South-
ern army.

Oliver Addison Kingsbury, son of Oliver Richmond
Kingsbury, treasurer of the American Tract Society, and
Susan (Patterson) Kingsbury, and brother of Rev. Howard
Kingsbury (B.A. Yale 1863), was born August 20, 1839,
in New York City, and was fitted for college there in the
Murray Hill Collegiate Institute.

The year after graduation he engaged in teaching, but
in September, 1861, he entered Union Theological Semi-
nary, and graduated three years later. After preaching
for several months at the Congregational Church in Middle
Haddam, Conn., he went to Illinois, and was ordained by
the Presbytery of Chicago, December 11, 1866, and installed
over the First Presbyterian Church of Joliet. There and
at Wappingers Falls, N. Y., whither he went in 1870, houses
of worship were built while he was pastor. From July,
1874, to June, 1877, he served as pastor of the Union
Evangelical Church at Corona, L. I., N. Y. In May, 1873,
in addition to preaching, he took up editorial work for the
American Tract Society in New York City on various pub-
lications, including The Illustrated Christian Weekly. In
the summer of 1887 he became editor-in-chief of that
paper, but in February, 1889, it passed out of the manage-
ment of the Society. Besides many articles in religious
periodicals, he published several books on religious subjects.

From 1878 to 1889 he resided in Jersey City, and during
that time was clerk of the Presbytery of Jersey City. In
April, 1891, he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church
at New Hartford, N. Y., and remained there in active

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service until 1912, when he was made pastor emeritus.
From 1904 he was stated clerk of the Presbytery of Utica.
He was several times a commissioner to the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Kingsbury died at the home of his daughter in
Memphis, Tenn., May 5, 1914, in the 75th year of his age.

He married, May 11, 1865, Sarah Cecilia, daughter of
Rev. John McMillan Stevenson, D.D. (B.A. Wash'n &
JefT'n 1836), and Cecilia Hadassah (Gillespie) Stevenson
of New York City, and had two sons and two daughters,
of whom the daughters with Mrs. Kingsbury survive him.

Josiah Edwards Kittredge, son of Dr. Josiah and
Sarah Whiting (French) Kittredge, was born in Boston,
Mass., October 12, 1836. He was prepared for college at
Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., and Phillips
(Andover) Academy. He was a member of the Class of
1859 until Junior year, and at the beginning of the following
year joined the Class of i860.

" After graduation he was principal of the Mount Prospect
Institute in Montclair, N. J., a year, then studied a year
at Union Theological Seminary, and two years at Andover
Theological Seminary, graduating from the latter in 1864,
and returning there as a resident licentiate the following
year. After a year in Montclair, he then spent two years
in Europe, Egypt, and the East. In 1866 he organized
the first Sunday school at the American Chapel in Paris,
where, as also at Heidelberg, he was a student in 1867-68.

March 10, 1869, he was ordained pastor of the Congre-
gational Church at Glastonbury, Conn., and remained there
four years. The winter of 1873-74 he spent in Berlin,
Germany, in charge of the American Chapel, and then
traveled in Scandinavia and Asia Minor, and for two years
following was pastor of the American Union Church in
Florence, Italy.

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Returning to the United States, he was installed, April
18, 1877, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Geneseo,
N. Y. After a long-standing division the church there
soon became united under his leadership, and in December,
1881, a new edifice was dedicated. His pastorate there
continued for nearly thirty years. Resigning in 1906 he
traveled extensively, and in 1907 was a delegate from the
General Assembly to the Centenary Conference of China
Missions at Shanghai. During the last three years he had
been one of the ministers of the Central Presbyterian
Church of Rochester, N. Y. From 1907 he was general
secretary of the Presbyterian Bureau of Supply of
Rochester. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of
Divinity from New York University in 1884.

He was a member of the London Society of Biblical
Archaeology and of the Victoria Institute of Christian
Philosophy, also local secretary of the Egyptian Exploration
Fund. Besides sermons and lectures he published "A
Yearbook of Sermon Texts" for children, and an address,
"Bible History in the Light of Modern Research."

Dr. Kittredge died at a private hospital in Rochester,
N. Y., December 21, 1913, after nearly a year's suffering.
He was yy years of age.

He married at Groveland, N. Y., June 28, 1871, Emma,
daughter of Robert and Amelia (Warner) McNair. She
died in June, 1898, and he married, December 30, 1903,
Nettie S. Long, of Geneseo, wrho survives him. By his first
marriage he had three sons and a daughter. Two of these
sons, Rev. Charles F. Kittredge and Rev. William McNair
Kittredge (B.A. Williams 1900 and 1904 respectively), and
the daughter, who is a missionary in Japan and the wife
of Rev. Stanley F. Gutelius (B.A. Williams 1901), are
also living. A brother (Ph.B. Yale 1858) died in 1907.

Xenophon Wheeler, son of Zalmon and Gillin (Chip-
man) Wheeler, was born February 19, 1835, at Homer, O.

562 YALE COLLEGE

After four years in Oberlin College he joined the class at
Yale at the beginning of Senior year.

After graduation he began the study of law in New York
City, but at the outbreak of the Civil War enlisted in the
67th Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, and took part in
McClellan's West Virginia campaign. At the battle of
Kernstown, near Winchester, Va., in March, 1862, his
thigh was fractured by a musket ball, and he spent nearly
four months in a hospital. He was then able to continue
his law studies in Newark, O., and was admitted to the bar
in 1863, but soon reenlisted as captain of Company I of
the 129th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served until March,
1864.

After being mustered out he began the practice of law
in Newark but after a few months in Tennessee and
Arkansas became a resident of Chattanooga, Tenn., where
he had since continued in practice. He at first formed a
partnership with Colonel T. R. Stanley, who was post com-
mander there at the close of the war, and R. W. Hender-
son, under the name of Stanley, Henderson & Wheeler.
Mr. Henderson retired in 1867 and by the admission of
Major W. S. Marshall, the firm became Stanley, Wheeler
& Marshall, so remaining two years. In 1871 upon the
return of Major Marshall from an absence due to pro-
tracted ill health, the firm of Wheeler & Marshall was
established and continued till the latter's death in 1891.
Mr. Wheeler was then in partnership with Thomas McDer-
mott until the death of the latter in August, 1900, and
then with T. M. Trimble. In 191 1 Francis Martin was
admitted to partnership, and since then the firm name had
been Wheeler, Martin, & Trimble.

From 1879 to 1883, he was United States district attorney
for the eastern district of Tennessee, and at one time had
been Republican nominee for Congress. He was one of
the organizers of the Tennessee State Bar Association, and
its president in 1884-85. In 1885-86 he headed the Com-

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mittee of One Hundred working for local civic reform.
He was the first president of the Chattanooga Library
Association, and continued in that position several years.
From 1 89 1 to 191 3 he was a trustee of the University
of Tennessee. He was president of the Richmond Spin-
ning Co., and of its allied industry, the Chickamauga Knit-
ting Mills, a director of the Chattanooga Savings Bank,
one of the incorporators of the Chattanooga Coal, Iron, and
Manufacturers' Association, which afterward became the
Chamber of Commerce, and was interested in many local
enterprises.

He died after a few days' illness from cerebral hemor-
rhage at his home in Chattanooga, January 30, 19 14, in
the 79th year of his age.

He married July 14, 1863, Amanda Elizabeth, daughter
of Levi W. and Amanda (Hollister) Knowlton, of Utica,
O., who died in December, 1887. In September, 1890, he
married Mrs. Elizabeth W. Brown, daughter of Josiah
and Hannah (Davidson) Whitman, who survives him.
Two daughters and a son (B.A. Yale 1894) by his first
marriage are living.

1861

Leonard Fisk Morse, son of Daniel and M. Jane (Ful-
ler) Morse, was born February 9, 1840, at West Needham,
now Wellesley, Mass. He was prepared for college at
W^esleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass., and took part of
his college course at Amherst, but joined his class at Yale
at the beginning of Junior year.

After graduation he taught in the winter of 1861-62
at Wellesley, Mass., then studied law in Boston till July,

1863, and was in a wholesale store in that city until March,

1864. Since that time he had resided in New Haven,
Conn., excepting during 1891-93, when he was at his old
home in Wellesley. For nearly thirty years he was secre-
tary and most of the time treasurer of the Grilley Manu-

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facturing Co., until the firm was dissolved in 1905. After a
brief connection with The Price & Lee Co., publishers of
city directories, he had been with Sperry & Barnes for
several years.

Mr. Morse died of Bright's disease at his home in New
Haven, January 9, 1914, in the 74th year of his age. His
classmate, Rev. George A. Pelton, conducted the funeral
service.

He married in New Haven, June 3, 1868, Sara G.,
daughter of Lewis H. and Elizabeth (Osgood) Grandy,
who survives him without children.

Edward Phillips Payson, son of Rev. Phillips Payson
(Andover Theol. Sem. 1820), was born March 15, 1840,
in Lyme, Conn., his father then being pastor of the Con-
gregational Church in the village of Hadlyme. He was a
nephew of Rev. Edward Payson, D.D. (B.A. Harvard
1803), and grandson of Rev. Seth Payson, D.D. (B.A.
Harvard 1777; Hon. M. A. Yale 1782), who was a trustee
of Dartmouth College. His mother was Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of James Boutelle of Leominster, Mass. He was pre-
pared for college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton,
Mass., and entered from Fayetteville, N. Y.

After graduation he took the course in Union Theological
Seminary, completing it in 1864. For several months in
1863 he worked among the freedmen. February 22, 1864,
he was ordained and became chaplain of the 146th New
York Volunteers, being with his regiment in the Army of
the Potomac until mustered out of the service, July 16,
1865. He then preached at Manhattanville and at Grace
Chapel, both in New York City, about a year each, and
in December, 1867, was installed as pastor of the Congre-
gational Church in Kent, Conn. In June, 1870, he accepted
a call to the First Union Presbyterian Church in 65th
Street, New York City, where he remained five years. In
December, 187$, he became pastor of the First Congre-

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gational Church in Ansonia, Conn., and continued there
until the summer of 1886. He was then pastor of the Canal
Street Presbyterian Church in New York City eight years,
and for sixteen years following of Grace Presbyterian
Church, Montclair, N. J. Since 1910 he had lived in East
Orange, N. J., but held no pastorate. He was moderator
of the Newark, N. J., Presbytery in 1903-04.

Mr. Payson died of paralysis in Tacoma, Wash.,
September 22, 191 3, in the 74th year of his age.

He married, October 23, 1866, Grace W. Hazlett, of
New York City. A daughter is deceased, but a son
(Princeton Sem. 1898) is living.

1862

Samuel Robinson Blatchley, son of Samuel Loper and
Mary Ann (Robinson) Blatchley, was born in North Madi-
son, Conn., November 15, 1839. His parents moved to
New Haven in 1846, and the year before entering college
he was in the Hopkins Grammar School.

After graduation he taught school four and a half years
in Cincinnati, O., and then returned to New Haven and
became a member of the firm of S. L. Blatchley & Sons,
real estate dealers in Fair Haven, at Cedar Hill, and in
other sections of the city. His father purchased a large
section of the Maltby estate in Fair Haven, which the firm
developed, laying out streets, including Blatchley Avenue,
and building many houses. The family gave the site of
Grace Protestant Episcopal Church on Blatchley Avenue.
At the time the State Street Horse Railroad Co. was
organized the firm held a large proportion of the stock, and
his father was president. Later he himself was president
for two years. After the death of his father in 1883, he
continued the business with his brother, Charles C. Blatch-
ley (B.A. Yale 1863), until the latter's death, March 5,
1887, and afterwards alone.

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He married, June 23, 1864, Nancy M., daughter of Hugh
Evans of Cincinnati. In 1872-73 they spent nearly five
months in California, mostly in the southern part of the
state, with the idea of remaining there, but the climate did
not prove beneficial to his wife's health, and they returned
to New Haven.

Mr. Blatchley died at his home in New Haven after a
long period of ill health, February 11, 1914, at the age of
74 years. Mrs. Blatchley died August 23, 1908. They
had no children. A brother graduated from Yale College
in 1850, and a sister from Vassar College in 1868. A
nephew, E. Otis Hovey, Ph.D. (B.A. Yale 1884), Associate
Curator of Geology in the American Museum of National
History, is the son of Mr. Blatchley's sister. Another
sister is the widow of William Ludden (B.A. Yale 1850).

By his will Mr. Blatchley left a liberal bequest to the
Alumni Fund of his class.

Edward Benton Coe, son of Rev. David Benton Coe,
D.D. (B.A. Yale 1837), and Rebecca (Phoenix) Coe, was
born June 11, 1842, in Milford, Conn. His father was
then pastor of the First Congregational Church there,
earlier a Tutor in Yale College, and from 185 1 to 1882
corresponding secretary of the American (now Congrega-
tional) Home Missionary Society. He was prepared for
college in private schools in New York City.

After graduation he entered Union Theological Semi-
nary, but left there in the early winter to be a private tutor
in a family at Irvington-on-the Hudson, N. Y. In March,
1864, he accepted an appointment as the first Street Profes-
sor of Modern Languages in Yale College, and spent the
next three years at Bonn, Berlin, and Paris preparing for
his work. Taking up his duties in September, 1867, he
taught French as Professor twelve years, also giving
instruction in German until 1873.

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While teaching he did not abandon his purpose of becom-
ing a clergyman. He was licensed to preach by the
Manhattan Congregational Association of New York in
October, 1877, an^ preached frequently during the next two
years. In the summer of 1879 he resigned his Professor-
ship, and accepted a call to be one of the ministers of the
Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of New
York City, and was ordained by the Classis of New York,
and installed October 2, 1879. He had special pastoral
charge of the congregation at Fifth Avenue and 48th
St., recently named the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas.
Since 1896 he had been Senior Minister of the Collegiate
Church and since 1898 without specific charge of a
congregation. In 1898 he was president of the General
Synod.

Several of his sermons were published separately, includ-
ing Memorials of his colleagues, Dr. Vermilye and Dr.
Chambers, and the Historical Address at the Bicentenary
of the Charter of the Collegiate Church, and there was also
a volume of sermons with the title "Life Indeed,"
issued in 1899.

He had been a member of the Board of Superintendents
of the New Brunswick (N. J.) Theological Seminary, a
trustee of Rutgers College since 1887, of Robert College,
Constantinople, since 1894, of Columbia University and of
the Leake and Watts Orphan House since 1896, and a
manager of the Presbyterian Hospital since 1896. He was
also chairman of the executive committee of the Board of
Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church.

He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from
Rutgers College in 1881 and from Yale in 1885 and of
Doctor of Laws from Rutgers in 1893.

Dr. Coe had been in poor health since the autumn and
died at his home in New York City, March 19, 1914, in
the 72d year of his age.

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He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., January n, 1874, Mary
Jenks Storrs, daughter of Rev. Richard Salter Storrs,
D.D., LL.D. (B.A. Amherst 1839), who from 1846 until
his death in 1900 was pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims
in Brooklyn, and Mary (Elwell) Storrs. They had three
daughters and a son (B.A. Yale 1913). Two of the daugh-
ters graduated from Smith College in 1897 and 1899,
respectively, and the third from RadclirTe College in 1901.
A brother of Dr. Coe died in 1872, a few months after his
graduation from Yale College.

Melville Cox Day, son of Thomas Day, a farmer of
Biddeford, Maine, was born in that town June 2, 1839.
His mother was Eliza (Locke) Day. He was named after
Rev. Melville B. Cox, the first Methodist Episcopal
missionary to Africa from Maine. He studied at Gould
Academy, Bethel, Me., and finished his preparation for
college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

After graduation he studied law in the office of Hon.
John M. Goodwin (B.A. Bowdoin 1845) in his native town
and was admitted to the bar, but in September, 1863, entered
the Harvard Law School, where he spent a year. He was
then for a short time at Great Falls, N. H., and Cuba,
N. Y., but in 1865 settled in St. Louis, Mo., and in 1866
became a member of the firm of Cline, Jamison & Day.
For a number of years he was general counsel of the
Missouri Pacific Railroad. In 1882 he removed to New
York City and was the private counsel of Hon. Cornelius
Kingsland Garrison, and after his death in 1885 was his
executor and the manager of his estate. Since about 1902
he had spent most of his time in Switzerland and Italy.

He died December 29, 19 13, in Florence, Italy, after an
illness of three months from a complication of diseases.
He was 74 years of age.

He married in New York City, December 1, 1875, Mary,
daughter of Commodore Cornelius Kingsland and Mary

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Noye (ReTallack) Garrison. She died the following-
February. His ashes were laid beside his wife in
Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Since 1891 he had been a regular and generous benefactor
of Phillips (Andover) Academy, having provided for the
construction of three cottages and three dormitories there,
besides making gifts to the general funds, and he left a
large bequest to the Academy. Twenty members of his
class were also classmates at Andover before entering
college. Mr. Day also left a bequest to Gould Academy.

Heman Packard DeForest was born in North Bridge-
water (now Brockton), Mass., August 20, 1839. He was
the son of Isaac and Jane Baker (Packard) Packard, and
to his original name he added that of DeForest, the name
of a benefactor of his college days.

After graduation he spent a year in recuperation and
teaching, studied three years in the Yale Divinity School,
was ordained at the First Church in Attleboro, Mass.,
December 18, 1867, and was pastor there until February,
1869, when he went to the new Lincoln Park Church in
Chicago, 111. In August, 1871, he began a pastorate of
nine years at the Evangelical Church in Westboro, Mass.,
which was followed by one of equal length over the
Trinitarian Church in Taunton, Mass. In 1889 he accepted
a call to the Woodward Avenue Congregational Church in
Detroit, Mich., where constructive Bible study was a dis-
tinctive feature of his work. He became a leader in the
work of the denomination in the state. After a pastorate
of seventeen years he retired from the active ministry,
and since 1906 had resided in Lexington, Mass., preaching
occasionally. He was a trustee of Olivet College, which
conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in

1893.

At the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the First
Church in Westboro in 1874 he gave the Historical Address,

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and at the Fourth of July celebration there in 1876 he
reviewed the history of the town with special reference to
its part in the Revolutionary War. His "History of the
Town of Westboro" was included in the "History of
Worcester County" published in 1879, and his "History
of Westboro" from its beginning to i860 was the first
volume of the History published by the town. Besides a
number of printed sermons, he issued Manuals of Bible
study by historical methods for the use of his Sunday
school.

Dr. DeForest died suddenly of heart disease at his home
in Lexington, Mass., January 21, 1914, in the 75th year
of his age. The burial was in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
in Concord, Mass.

He married in Concord, Mass., June 6, 1865, Harriet
Frost Stacy, daughter of John and Eliza (Jones) Stacy,
who survives him. They had no children, but since 1879
Miss Ellen S. Farnsworth, daughter of Rev. Wilson A.
Farnsworth, D.D. (B.A. Middlebury 1848), for fifty years
a missionary of the American Board in Cesarea, Turkey,
had made her home with them.

Harrison Belknap Freeman, son of Horace and Eliza
Ann (Belknap) Freeman, was born September 5, 1839,
in Hartford, Conn. He was prepared for college in the
Hartford High School, and General Russell's School in
New Haven, and was for nearly two years a member of the
Class of 1 86 1, joining the Class of 1862 in Junior year.

After graduation he studied in the Harvard Law School
and in the office of Edward Goodman in Hartford. He
was admitted to the Hartford County bar in 1864, and
from 1871 to 1874 was judge of the Hartford Police Court.
In 1887 he was nominated on the Republican ticket for
judge of probate and was elected. By successive reelec-
tions, often as the nominee of both parties, he continued
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account of reaching the age limit. He then resumed prac-
tice with his son in the firm of Freeman & Freeman. He
was president of the Northern Connecticut Light and
Power Co., and was interested in kindred enterprises.

While visiting his daughter, Mrs. Henry C. Matthews,
near Baltimore, Md., Judge Freeman died suddenly of
heart trouble, July 4, 1913. He was in his 74th year. He
was a member of the Center (Congregational) Church.

He married, June 1, 1864, Frances Hall Bill, daughter
of Erastus and Phoebe (Rood) Bill of Hartford, who sur-
vives him with a son (B.A. Yale 1892) and three daughters.
The second daughter married James A. Turnbull (B.A.
Yale 1892), and the youngest married Harry Joseph
Matthews (B.A. Princeton 1901). A brother (B.A. Yale
i860) died in 1895.

John Smith Robert, son of William Smith Robert (B.A.
Yale 1815), and Caroline E. (Smith) Robert, and nephew
of Daniel Robert (B.A. Yale 1810), was born at Mastic,
a village in Brookhaven, Long Island, N. Y., August 4,
1840. He was fitted for college at Williston Seminary,
Easthampton, Mass.

After graduation he returned to his father's farm, but
after his father's death in 1877 he built a home at Upper
Mastic in his native town, where he resided until 1907, mov-
ing then to Center Moriches, where he had since lived, and
where he died of paralysis May 5, 1914, in the 74th year of
his age. He was a member and trustee of the Center
Moriches Presbyterian Church. A brother, Charles Smith
Robert, who was his classmate in college for three years,
died in 1907.

He married, November 19, 1885, Julia Anne, daughter of
Charles Smith Havens, a merchant of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and Augusta (Gerard) Havens. She survives him with
a son.

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Levi Penfield Treadwell, son of Jabez and Lydia
Treadwell, was born September 2, 1836, at New Fairfield,
Conn. Before entering college he studied a year each in
the Fairfield (Conn.) Academy and the Broadway Collegiate
Institute in New York, and was a member of the Class of
1 86 1 during its Freshman year, reentering with the Class
of 1862 at the beginning of its course.

After graduation he engaged in teaching and farming in
his native town until 1870, and then spent two years in
civil engineering and surveying, in 1871 removing to Dan-
bury, Conn. In 1873 he was elected secretary and treasurer
of the Union Savings Bank of that city, and continued in
those offices until 1897. Since about 1880 he had also
been in the insurance business. He was for several years
a member of the board of education and treasurer of two
sohool districts, and was town treasurer from 1878 to 1882,
burgess in 1879, and warden in 1880-81. For a time he
was president of the Young Men's Christian Association
of Danbury, and for many years he gave much time to the
work of the Connecticut Temperance Union, of which he
was president from 1899 to 1902. In 1904 he removed to
New York City, and from 1900 spent his summers at a
cottage on the Branford (Conn.) shore. During part of
two winters he was in Florida.

Mr. Treadwell died of pneumonia in New York City,
November 13, 1913, at the age of yj years. He was a
member of the Congregational Church.

He married in New Fairfield, October 10, 1866, Caroline
Cornelia Rogers, and had four sons and four daughters, of
whom one son is deceased. Mrs. Treadwell and the other
children survive him. One daughter graduated from
Mount Holyoke College in 1896 as Bachelor of Letters,
and another from the New Britain Normal School in 1907;
one son from Harvard University with the degree of
Bachelor of Science in 1908, and another from the United
States Naval Academy in 1904.

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i863

Henry Pynchon Robinson, son of Rev. Henry Robin-
son (B.A. Yale 181 1), was born August 29, 1840, in
Putnam, Conn., his father being then pastor of the Con-
gregational Church of North Killingly, now East Putnam.
His mother was Mrs. Mary Cushing (Gay) Judd, daughter
of Rev. Ebenezer Gay (B.A. Yale 1787) and Bathshua
(Pynchon) Gay, of Suffield, Conn. In 1856 the family
removed to the ancestral homestead in Guilford, Conn.,
where he was prepared for college at Guilford Institute.

After graduation he taught in Easton, Norwalk, and
Glastonbury, Conn.; Blairstown and Red Bank, N. J.;
and Chester and Warrensburg, N. Y. ; also from 1873 to
1878 as a private tutor in Brooklyn, N. Y.

He wrote many articles for newspapers and magazines,
largely on historical subjects, including a series on life
in Windham County, and a large number on Guilford
academic life, local lore and history, and others on his
travels. At the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the founding of Guilford in 1889 he gave an address on
Guilford and Madison in Literature. In 1907 he pub-
lished "Guilford Portraits." During his journeyings he
gathered a large library, including many English editions,
and volumes from old book shops.

For a while from 1892 he lived in Montclair, N. J., and
then in Maiden, Mass., but in recent years had made his
home most of the time in Guilford. Throughout his life
he gave much attention to the cultivation and promotion
of music.

He died of heart trouble, at his home in Guilford,
June 5, 191 3, in the 73d year of his age. He made
several extended journeys abroad, but while in Italy the
previous year had been ill for over three months in Naples.

He married in Easton, Conn., September 5, 1866, Jennie
Covert Perry, youngest daughter of Orlando and Clarissa

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(Treadwell) Perry, of Easton, who died in 1885. In 1891
he married Eleanor Huse, of Winchester, Mass., who sur-
vives him with two daughters of his first marriage. Two
sisters are also living.

Edward Payson Sheldon, son of Seth Hunt and Cor-
delia (Buxton) Sheldon, was born August 24, 1839, m
Cleveland, O. He was fitted for college in the High School
of that city and the preparatory department of Oberlin Col-
lege. He was a member of Oberlin College during Fresh-
man and Sophomore years, but the Civil War broke up
his class there and with his classmates Childs, Ingersoll,
and Terrell, he came to Yale and joined the class in
Junior year.

The year after his graduation from college he studied in
the Albany Law School, receiving there the degree of
Bachelor of Laws in 1864, and in 1865 was admitted to
the bar in Cleveland. Owing to impaired health he did not
practice long, but went into the lumber business there with
his father, and in 1866 was admitted to the firm of S. H.
Sheldon & Son, after which he spent two years in New
Mexico, engaged in cattle ranching and in the sale of tim-
ber lands and land grants near Santa Fe. He planned
irrigation systems at Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Las
Animas, and was associated with George N. Fletcher of
Detroit, and Winfield Smith of Milwaukee. Disposing of
his cattle interests to Mr. Fletcher, he entered the firm of
Billings, Sheldon & Co. in Chicago, engaged in mining in
the Gogebic Iron Range in Wisconsin. He was greatly
interested in promoting a forestry exhibition at the World's
Fair in Chicago in 1893. From 1894 to 1897 he was again
in the timber land and lumber business and continued the
same business in connection with land grants and mines, in
New York City until 1900. Following this he was in
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in 1903 returned to New York City, and about 1904 retired
from all business.

Mr. Sheldon died from pneumonia at his home in New
York City, March 18, 1914, in the 75th year of his age,
and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. He was a mem-
ber of the (Unitarian) Church of the Messiah in New
York City.

He married in Syracuse, N. Y., May 9, 1866, Alice M.,
daughter of Alonzo Crippen, a salt manufacturer, and
Emaline Crippen, and a cousin of his classmate Childs.
She survives him with two of their three sons. The eldest
son was for two years a member of the Class of 1892 in
the Sheffield Scientific School. Mr. Sheldon's twin sister
died in 1901, and two other sisters and a brother have also
died, but one sister is living.

1864

William Edward Barnett, son of William Noyes and
Mary Sullivan (Pritchard) Barnett, was born at Charleston,
S. C, February 20, 1845, and was the youngest member
of his class. He was prepared for college at the Hopkins
Grammar School in New Haven, his home then being in
West Haven.

After graduation he was at home a year, the second year
was principal of Staples Academy in Easton, Conn., then
studied in the Albany Law School, receiving the degree
of Bachelor of Laws in May, 1867. Soon afterward he
was admitted to the bar, and the following summer was
in the law office of Hon. George H. Watrous (B.A. Yale
1853). In September, 1867, he formed a partnership with
his classmate Wilfred E. Norton in Bridgeport, Conn., and
he was also clerk of the Common Council in 1868. In 1869
this partnership was dissolved, and he became secretary to
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president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail-
road Co. and became also attorney for that company and
for the Portchester & Harlem Railroad (now the Harlem
River Branch), of which he was also a director. From
1870 to 1880 his home was in New Rochelle, N. Y., and
from that time until 1888 at Pelham Manor, N. Y. In
1887 he was appointed executive secretary of the company,
and his headquarters were changed to New Haven, to which
he removed with his family in 1888. July 1, 1898, he was
made head of the department of law, real estate, and taxes
of the company, with the title of attorney, and in January,
1900, was elected a third vice-president of the company.
He was director and vice-president of the Housatonic
Railroad Co., the New Haven & Derby Railroad Co., and
the New Haven & Northampton Railroad Co., all later
included in the New Haven system; also a director of
several other corporations subsidiary to the system.

In 1905 and 1906 he assisted in compiling, annotating,
and indexing the charters of the New York, New Haven
& Hartford Railroad Co. and its subsidiary companies,
forming a printed volume of 1326 pages.

Mr. Barnett was stricken with paralysis in January, 1900,
a few days after his appointment to the vice-presidency.
He partially recovered, but January 1, 1904, resigned his
various railroad offices, and was retired. In November,
1907, he went abroad with Mrs. Barnett and his daughters,
spent the winter and spring in London and the summer in
Ripon, and returned the following October. In recent years
he had spent much time at Pinehurst, N. C, where he died
October 10, 191 3, in the 69th year of his age.

He married at Trinity Church, New Rochelle, November
30, 1875, Marie Amelie, daughter of Augustus Hedden
and Susan Honorine (Roumage) Lockwood, and had
three sons and three daughters, of whom two sons and two
daughters, with Mrs. Barnett, survive him. The elder son
graduated from Yale College in 1898. Two brothers

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(M.D. Yale 1869 and B.A. Brown 1872, respectively) are
also living.

While residing in New Rochelle, Mr. Barnett was a
vestryman of Trinity Church, and also organist. From
about 1909 to 191 3 he was a member of the vestry of
Trinity Church, New Haven.

Joseph Lanman, son of Peter and Catharine (Cook)
Lanman, was born April 9, 1840, in Norwich, Conn., where
he was prepared for college at the Norwich Free Academy.

After graduation he studied two years in Union Theo-
logical Seminary, but in the spring of 1865 he was in the
service of the Christian Commission for three months.
During the summer of 1866 he was employed by the
Vermont Home Missionary Society, and then took a third
year of theological study at Andover Seminary, from
which he graduated in 1867. From 1867 to 1872 he was
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Windham, N. H.,
and was ordained there June 2, 1868, by the Presbytery
of Londonderry. In 1872 he was at Lynn, Mass., from
1873 to 1876 at the Congregational Church in Westhamp-
ton, Mass., and for several years following in California,
preaching from 1876 to 1878 in Woodland, and in 1881
in Oakland, in that state. After working about two years
at Taylor's Falls, Minn., he was for six years in Minne-
apolis, Minn., where he organized Bethlehem Presbyterian
Church, brought it to self-support, and built up its mem-
bership to more than two hundred. Upon the close of this
pastorate in 1888 he spent a year in travel and study abroad.
From 1890 to 1892 he preached for the First Church in
Newark, O., and from 1893 to 1898 was pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church in Princeton, Ky. He was also
a trustee of Princeton Collegiate Institute there, of which
he was acting head for a time. In 1898 he received from
the University of Wooster the degree of Doctor of
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Legislation. In June, 1900, he was installed over the
Presbyterian Church at St. James, Minn., preaching also
in Butterfield. After a service of nine years he resigned,
and since then had ministered as long as his health per-
mitted to churches in Ohio, residing for a time in Colum-
bus, where two of his three brothers were living. The
third brother (B.A. Yale 1871) is Professor Charles R.
Lanman, of Harvard University.

Dr. Lanman died September 11, 1913, at Rochester,
Minn., from heart failure the day after an operation for
an affection of the throat. He was in his 74th year. The
funeral was at the home of his classmate, Rev. Edward M.
Williams, D.D., in Northfield, Minn., and the burial in
Northfield. A memorial service was held in Bethlehem
Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, at which an address
was made by Rev. Dr. Williams.

He married at Easthampton, Mass., May 17, 1871, Clara
Safford Williston, daughter of Hon. Samuel Williston,
founder of Williston Seminary, and trustee of Amherst
and Mt. Holyoke Colleges. Her mother was Emily
(Graves) Williston. They had no children, but Mrs.
Lanman survives him.

David Brainerd Lyman, son of Rev. David Belden
Lyman (B.A. Williams 1828) and Sarah (Joiner) Lyman,
was born March 27, 1840, in Hilo, Hawaii, where his
father was a missionary of the American Board. He was
fitted for college in the preparatory department of Oahu
College, and left Honolulu in 1859 and, sailing by way of
Cape Horn, reached New Bedford, Mass., in i860.

While in college he was a member of the Varuna Boat
Club and the Beethoven Society, treasurer of the Yale
Missionary Society, and a class deacon.

After graduation from college he entered the Harvard
Law School, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws
in 1866, having also spent five months in Virginia as agent

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of the United States Sanitary Commission. He was
admitted to the Boston bar in November, 1866, and then
went to Chicago, where he continued the rest of his life.
He spent three or four months studying statute law in the
office of Waite & Clarke, and soon formed a partnership
with Huntington W. Jackson (B.A. Princeton 1863), under
the name of Lyman & Jackson, which continued till
December 1, 1898. The firm then became Jackson, Busby
& Lyman, Mr. Lyman retiring to give his time to the
Chicago Title & Trust Co., of which he was president, and
being succeeded by his eldest son, David B. Lyman, Jr.
(B.A. Yale 1895). On the death of Mr. Jackson in 1901
Mr. Lyman reentered the firm, which became Lyman,
Busby & Lyman. Five years later the name was changed
to Lyman, Lyman & O'Connor, John M. O'Connor suc-
ceeding L. A. Busby. Mr. Lyman was president of the
Chicago Bar Association in 1893 and 1894.

Since 1873 he had resided in La Grange, 111., his wife's
birthplace, where he was senior warden of Emmanuel
Protestant Episcopal Church. He was a delegate from
the diocese of Chicago to the General Conventions of 1889,
1892, and 1907, and was the first president of the Church
Club of Chicago. For many years he served on the Board
of Education of La Grange, and was its president for one
term. He held the same office in the Chicago Yale Alumni
Association in 1898. He received the degree of Master
of Arts in 1874.

Mr. Lyman died suddenly of heart disease in Chicago,
April 8, 1914, at the age of 74 years.

He married in Chicago, October 5, 1870, Mary E.,
daughter of Franklin Dwight and Martha L. J. (Malone)
Cossitt, and had three sons and a daughter. Mrs. Lyman
survives him with the eldest son and the daughter. The
youngest son, a member of the Class of 1898 in the Aca-
demical Department, died at the end of his Sophomore
year. In his memory his father added to the musical

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equipment of Dwight Hall. His grandson, David B.
Lyman, 3d, is a member of the Class of 1917 in the College.

George Spring Merriam, son of Deacon George Mer-
riam, was born January 13, 1843, in Springfield, Mass.
His mother was Abby Fiske, daughter of Rev. John and
Elizabeth Fiske of New Braintree, Mass., and widow of
George Spring. He was prepared for college at the
Brooklyn, N. Y., Polytechnic Institute.

In his Sophomore year he won two first prizes in com-
position and was one of the editors of the University
Quarterly; in Senior year won a Townsend Premium and
was an editor of the Yale Literary Magaazhie ; and at
graduation ranked third in his class.

During the year following graduation he spent six months
as a private tutor in Dansville, N. Y., and in September,
1865, entered the Yale Divinity School, where he remained
until May, 1868. During the last two years of his theo-
logical course he was also Tutor in the College. From
July, 1868, to September, 1869, he was traveling in
Europe. During this time he wrote letters from Germany,
France, and Switzerland for the Springfield Republican, to
which he continued to contribute for over forty years. In
December, 1869, he declined a professorship in the Chicago
Theological Seminary, and in May of the following year
he became managing editor of the Christian Union, now
the Outlook, and was on the editorial staff until December,
1875. Meanwhile he resided in Montclair, N. J., but since
1878 his home had been in Springfield, where he devoted
himself to literary work, and was one of the directors of
the G. & C. Merriam Company (publishers of Webster's
Dictionaries), of which his father was one of the founders.

In 1876 he gathered a number of his editorial essays
in the Christian Union into the volume "A Living Faith."
In 1881 "The Way of Life" appeared, in 1894 his anthol-
ogy, "A Symphony of the Spirit," and in 1897 'The Chief

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End of Man." He edited "The Life and Times of Samuel
Bowles" in 1885; "The Story of William and Lucy Smith,"
1889; "Noah Porter: a Memorial by Friends," 1893;
"Reminiscences and Letters: Caroline C. Briggs," 1897;
and assisted Lady Stanley in editing and preparing for the
press the "Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley."
He also wrote "The Negro and the Nation: a History
of American Slavery and Enfranchisement," 1906; and
"A Man of Today," 1912. He received the degree of
Master of Arts in course from Yale in 1867. He was a
member of the Union Relief Association of Springfield,
and was deeply interested in all means for social betterment.
He made his fourth European trip in 1904 after recovering
from about three years of extreme ill health, and went
again in 1908. He had spent much time in Switzerland
and especially in England, where he made many friends.

Mr. Merriam died after a gradual decline of two years
at his home in Springfield, January 22, 19 14, at the age
of 71 years.

He married in Frankfort, Ky., June 30, 1868, Mrs.
Fanny Staples Post, daughter of Right Rev. Benjamin
Bosworth Smith, D.D., LL.D. (B.A. Brown 1816), Protes-
tant Episcopal Bishop of Kentucky. She died in London,
England, January 13, 1878. June 30, 1897, he married
Susan Adela, daughter of Dr. Sylvanus Clapp (M.D.
Dartmouth 1837), of Pawtucket, R. I., who survives him.
He had no children by either marriage.

A brother (B.A. Yale 1867) and two sisters are living.
His youngest brother (B.A. Yale 1870) died in 1896.

Charles Greene Rockwood, son of Charles Greene
Rockwood, who was president of the Newark (N. J.)
Banking Co. and died in 1904, and of Sarah (Smith)
Rockwood, was born January 11, 1843, m New York City.
He was prepared for college under Rev. Frederick A.
Adams, Ph.D. (B.A. Dartmouth 1833), in Orange, N. J.

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While in college he won several prizes in mathematics
and English composition, was Salutatorian of the class, and
at graduation was awarded the Berkeley and Clark
Scholarships.

For two years after graduation he remained in New
Haven studying the higher mathematics and modern lan-
guages, and at Commencement in 1866 he received the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The next two years he
taught in the Collegiate Academy of Samuel A. Farrand,
Ph.D. (M.A. Princeton i860), in New York City. He
then became Professor of Mathematics and Natural Phi-
losophy in Bowdoin College, holding the position there until
January, 1874, his title being changed in 1872 to Professor
of Mathematics. He resigned to accept the Professorship
of Mathematics and Astronomy in Rutgers College, and
continued there until 1877, when he was elected Asso-
ciate Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics in
Princeton University and the following year Professor
of Mathematics there. With the growth of the University
his duties were later restricted to the John C. Green School
of Science. In 1878 he was a member of the Princeton
Expedition to observe the solar eclipse at Denver, Colo.,
and in the summers of 1889-91 accompanied the United
States Fish Commission in its investigation of submarine
temperatures in the Gulf Stream, in August, 1891, spending
ten days on the Nantucket South Shoal Lightship. In
June, 1905, he resigned from active service and was made
Professor Emeritus, and spent the following year abroad.
He received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale in
1867, Bowdoin in 1869, and Princeton in 1896.

He contributed many papers on earthquakes and related
subjects to the American Journal of Science, reports on
vulcanology and seismology to the Smithsonian Reports
for 1884 and 1885, and other articles to various scientific
journals. In 1886 he aided the Director of the United
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of the Charleston earthquake. He was an honorary mem-
ber of the British Association for the Advancement of
Science, the first secretary (1873-76) of the American
Metrological Society, and a member of many other
American and foreign societies connected with his subjects
of study.

Since graduation he had been Secretary of his Class, and
had prepared its Records.

Professor Rockwood died of general sclerosis after an
illness of about three years, July 2, 19 13, at Caldwell,
N. J., where he had gone to spend the summer, and was
buried in Orange, N. J. He was 70 years of age. In
1897 he was elected a ruling elder of the First Presbyterian
Church of Princeton.

He married in Fair Haven, Conn., June 13, 1867, Hettie
Hosford Smith, daughter of Simeon Parsons Smith and
Hettie Hosford (Smith) Smith, and granddaughter of Rev.
David Smith, D.D. (B.A. Yale 1795), pastor of the Con-
gregational Church in Durham, Conn., and for forty years
a Fellow of Yale College. She survives him with their
daughter. Mrs. Rockwood gave a piece of the "home
lot" for a site of the Durham Library, and Professor
Rockwood left a bequest to provide permanent maintenance
for its work.

Job Williams, son of Giles and Fanny Maria (Gallup)
Williams, was born March 1, 1842, at Pomfret, Conn. He
was prepared for college in the Worcester (Mass.) High
School. While in college he was a member of the
Beethoven Society and the Varuna Boat Club.

After graduation he taught a year and a half at New-
burgh, N. Y., and six months in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
In 1866, he began teaching in the American School for the
Deaf, then known as the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb,
in Hartford, Conn., of which the first principal was Rev.
Thomas H. Gallaudet (B.A. Yale 1805). Of this he was

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chosen principal in March, 1879, and continued in this
position thirty-four years, serving the school forty-seven
years in all. He resigned in May, 191 3, but continued as
advisory counselor to the president and board of directors.
Besides his Annual Reports he published "A Brief History
of the American Asylum," 1893. In 1867 ne received the
degree of Master of Arts in course from Yale and in 1889
that of L.H.D. from the Gallaudet College in Washington,
D. C. He was for many years a member of the Asylum
Hill Congregational Church, and for twelve years a deacon.

Mr. Williams died during sleep at his home in Hartford,
March 15, 1914, at the age of 72 years.

He married in Hartford, August 25, 1868, Kate, daugh-
ter of Rev. Collins Stone (B.A. Yale 1832), and sister of
Edward Collins Stone (B.A. Yale 1862), both of whom
preceded Mr. Williams as principals of the School. They
had three sons and one daughter, all of whom survive him.
The eldest son, Henry L. Williams, M.D. (B.A. Yale 1891),
is Director of Athletics and Instructor in the Medical
School of the University of Minnesota; the second son,
Arthur C. Williams, graduated from Yale College in 1898;
and the third, from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1908.
Mrs. Williams died April 17, 1909. A brother graduated
from Yale College in 1877.

1865

Lyman DeHuff Gilbert, son of Henry and Harriet
(Spencer) Gilbert, was born August 17, 1845, in Harris-
burg, Pa., which was his home during his whole life. He
was prepared for college at the Harrisburg Academy under
Jacob F. Seiler (B.A. Yale 1854), and joined the class at
the beginning of Sophomore year.

After graduation he began the study of law in the office
of Hon. John C. Kunkel (B.A. Wash'n and Jeff'n 1839)
in Harrisburg, was admitted to the bar of Dauphin County

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August 26, 1868, and soon formed a partnership in Harris-
burg with Hon. John B. McPherson (B.A. Princeton
1866), under the name of Gilbert & McPherson. Hon.
Wayne MacVeagh (B.A. Yale 1853) was also for a time
a member of the firm. In 1873 Mr. Gilbert was appointed
deputy attorney-general of Pennsylvania under Hon.
Samuel E. Dimmick, and held the office nine years. He
then resigned and resumed private practice, and in the
latter part of 1882 entered into partnership with John H.
Weiss (B.A. Wash'n and Jeff'n 1863), under the name of
Weiss & Gilbert. In 1899 Mr. Weiss was made a judge of
Dauphin County, and since then Mr. Gilbert had practiced
alone. For many years he was a solicitor of the Penn-
sylvania Railroad and affiliated lines, and of various other
corporations. He had been president of the Pennsylvania
State Bar Association, the Dauphin County Law Associa-
tion, and the Yale Alumni Association of Central Penn-
sylvania. He was a delegate at large to the Republican
National Convention in 1892, and a delegate to the con-
ference on combinations and trusts in Chicago in 1899.
For ten years he was chairman of the board of managers
of the Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon.

Mr. Gilbert died after an illness of several weeks at his
home in Harrisburg, May 4, 1914, in the 69th year of his
age.

He married, October 24, 1888, Gabriella, daughter of
George and Helen (Bunn) Cameron of Petersburg, Va.
Mrs. Gilbert survives him without children.

Francis William Kittredge, son of William and Nancy
(Bigelow) Kittredge, was born June 4, 1843, in Lowell,
Mass., where he was prepared for college at the High
School.

After graduation he spent a year in a law office in
Lowell and a year in the Harvard Law School. In the
autumn of 1867 he was admitted to the bar and opened an

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office in Boston, where he practiced his profession for
forty-five years, being associated for a number of years
with Hon. Nathan Matthews (B.A. Harvard 1875). In
1868 he received the degree of Master of Arts in course
from Yale.

From 1889 to 1891 he served as a Republican member
of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Rox-
bury, and in 1894 and 1895 was m tne state Senate and
chairman of the special committee on rapid transit and
the committee on the judiciary. He was the author of the
bill for a system of rapid transit which was finally passed,
under which subway construction for Boston was begun,
and also took a leading part in the West End Street
Railway investigation. In 1892 he was appointed a mem-
ber of the Boston Board of Appeals on Building Laws.
From 1895 to 1902 he was counsel before the legislative
committees on important matters then under consideration
for legislation.

Since the organization of the American Woolen Company
in 1899 he had been a director of it, as well as the com-
pany's general attorney. He was also a director of the
Wood Worsted Mills of Lawrence, Mass., the J. C. Ayer
Co. of Lowell, and the Bradbury Co. of Brookline.

Mr. Kittredge died at his home in Boston, November
24, 1913, from paralysis of the stomach following an
automobile injury the preceding January. He was 70
years of age.

He married in Andover, Mass., June 19, 1872, Mary
Hascal Wheaton, daughter of Charles Augustus and Ellen
Douglas (Birdseye) Wheaton. She survives him with two
of their three sons and a daughter. One of the surviving
sons graduated from Harvard University in 1903, and the
other from Yale College in 191 1.

Wi(lliam Stone, son of Rev. John Seely Stone, D.D.
(B.A. Union 1823), was born January 31, 1842, in Brooklyn,

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N. Y., where his father was rector of Christ Church until
1852. His mother was Mary, daughter of Chancellor James
Kent (B.A. Yale 1781). He was fitted for college at
Phillips (Andover) Academy, and entered from Brookline,
Mass.

The year after graduation he was a teacher in Boston,
Mass., and the next year was a special student in the Shef-
field Scientific School. He was then in business in Boston
for a time, then in the banking house of Duncan, Sherman
& Co., in New York City, and later in Colorado. While
in Colorado his health broke down and he gave up business.
From 1875 to 1882 he studied art at the Museum of the
Fine Arts in Boston and in Paris, and from 1882 to 1885
taught in the School of Design and Painting in New York
City. His pictures were exhibited at the Paris Salon in
1887, and in New York at the National Academy of Design
and elsewhere.

Mr. Stone died of pneumonia at South Yarmouth, Mass.,
October 27, 191 3, in the 72d year of his age.

He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1868, Caroline E.,
daughter of Myron and Mary (Newell) Hamlin, and had
two daughters, one of whom is the wife of Rev. John N.
Lewis (B.A. Williams 1889) of Waterbury, Conn., and the
other of Frederic K. Knowlton. December 1, 1887, he mar-
ried Alice, daughter of Justin and Mary S. (Thayer) Hinds.
Two brothers graduated from Harvard University in 1861
and 1872, respectively, the elder of whom is living.

William Clitus Witter, son of William Witter, M.D.,
and Emily (Bingham) Witter, was born November 13,
1842, in Willimantic, Conn. His father, who was a surgeon
and a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
and Senate, died in 185 1 and his mother in 1847. He
studied under Rev. Samuel G. Willard (B.A. Yale
1846) and at the Collegiate Institute in Marion, Wayne
County, N. Y. He was then for two years in the whole-

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sale dry goods house of G. & D. Taylor in Providence, R. I.
Through the influence of Charles L. Thomas (B.A. Yale
1853), who became a member of the firm, his desire to
gain a college education was strengthened, and he entered
Brown University, remaining from 1861 to 1863. During
the summer of 1862 he served as a private soldier in the
Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers in Virginia and Maryland,
and during the summer of 1863 as a non-commissioned
officer of volunteers near Newport, R. I. He then continued
his college course at Yale, entering the class in Junior year.

After graduation he taught in a private school in New
York City and attended the Columbia Law School. After
receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws from there in
1867, he was in the law office of Evarts, Southmayd &
Choate for two years, and was then associated with George
Gifford, a patent lawyer, nearly ten years. In 1879 he
formed a partnership with Causten Browne (M.A. Trinity
1856), of Boston, under the name of Browne & Witter, with
offices in New York and Boston. This firm afterwards
became Browne, Witter & Kenyon, and then Witter & Ken-
yon, practicing patent law in New York City. For forty
years he was United States Examiner in Equity. Since 1900
he had partially retired from business on account of ill
health, and lived much of the time at his country home in
Lakeville, Conn.

For over fifteen years he was vice-president and chairman
of the building and executive committee of the New York
Skin and Cancer Hospital. He continued the study of classi-
cal, and English, French, and German literature, as well as
of science. He was a member of the Torrey Botanical
Club.

Mr. Witter died in New York City, March 2.7, 191 4, in
the 72d year of his age.

He married in Boston, Mass., October 30, 1871, Florence,
daughter of Dr. Jedediah Wellington, of Cambridge, Mass.
She died May 9, 1892, and September 12, 1893, ne married

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Mary, daughter of Joseph M. Greenwood, a Brooklyn law-
yer, and Cynthia M. (Ward) Greenwood. She survives
him with a daughter by his first marriage.

1866

Cassius Marcellus Clay, son of Hon. Brutus Junius
Clay, member of Congress from Kentucky in 1861, by his
second wife, Ann M. (Field) Clay, was born March 26, 1846,
at Paris, Ky. After preparatory study in the Sayers Classi-
cal School at Frankfort, Ky., he joined his class at Yale at
the beginning of Junior year.

Upon graduation he engaged in farming and stock rais-
ing in his native place, and became identified with its bank-
ing interests, serving as president of the Deposit Bank. In
1 87 1 and 1873 he was elected to the Kentucky House of
Representatives, and in 1885 to the state Senate. He was
president of the Constitutional Convention of Kentucky in
1890. The following year and again in 1895 he was a can-
didate for the democratic nomination for governor. For
nearly twelve years he was a trustee of the Kentucky State
College, now the University of Kentucky. He was president
of the Bourbon County Agricultural Society three years,
and during the last year had been president of the Bourbon
Warehouse Company.

Mr. Clay died of tetanus at his home near Paris, Ky.,
November 28, 191 3, at the age of 67 years.

He married, January 27, 1869, Sue E., daughter of Sam-
uel and Susan (Wornalt) Clay, and had two sons and two
daughters. She died June 6, 1880, and November 29, 1882,
he married Pattie T., daughter of Dr. A. T. and Belle
(Field) Lyman, and had a daughter, who died in infancy.
He married again, December 6, 1888, Mary Blythe Harris,
daughter of Hon. John D. Harris, of Richmond, Ky., and
lost a daughter in infancy, but two sons with Mrs. Clay

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survive him. Two daughters by the first marriage are also
living. He was a half-brother of Hon. Green Clay (B.A.
Yale 1859), and a nephew of Hon. Cassius M. Clay (B.A.
Yale 1839).

Gustavus Pierrepont Davis, son of Gustavus Fellowes
Davis, president of the City Bank of Hartford, Conn., and
Lucy Terry (Strong) Davis, was born January 16, 1845,
in Litchfield, Conn. He was prepared for college at the
Hartford High School.

After graduation he spent a year in Europe, studying
medicine in Paris, then entered the College of Physicians
and Surgeons (Columbia University), and received the
degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1869. He was then for
eighteen months a member of the house staff of the Charity
Hospital in New York City, and in December, 1870, began
practice in Hartford. In 1873-74 he was coroner and chair-
man of the Board of Health. Since 1874 he had been exam-
ining surgeon and physician of the Travelers Insurance
Co. of Hartford. In 1882 he was appointed one of the visit-
ing physicians of the Hartford Hospital, and was long a
director. He founded the Hartford Free Dispensary, was
secretary of the Connecticut Humane Society, and was
president of the Hartford Medical Society. He was a direc-
tor of the Hartford Retreat, the Watkinson Farm School,
Hartford Handicraft School, and Connecticut Institute for
the Blind. He was also a director in the Meriden Britannia
Co., the Wilcox and White Co., and the Mitchell- Vance Co.
of New York City. For a number- of years he was senior
warden of Trinity Church, Hartford.

Dr. Davis retired from active practice several years ago.
After several months of failing health he died at his home
in Hartford April 1, 1914, at the age of 69 years.

He married in New Haven, October 5, 1870, Elise Loomis,
daughter of Edward A. and Elizabeth Mary (Gorham)

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Mitchell, who survives him with three daughters, one of
them the wife of Otto A. Schreiber (B.A. Yale 1892), and
another the wife of W. Stuart Glazier (B.A. Yale 1906).
Their only son (B.A. Yale 1899) died in 1904. A brother
graduated from the College in 1877, and a sister married
Rev. Wilder Smith (B.A. Yale 1857).

1867

Joseph Judson Brooks, son of Joseph Judson Brooks
and Judith (Twing) Brooks, was born November 23, 1845,
at Salem, O. His parents removed to Ohio from Vermont,
and settled in 1838 in Salem, where his father was a law-
yer. He was prepared for college at Williston Seminary,
Easthampton, Mass.

After graduation he studied law in his native town, and
then until 1869 in the Harvard Law School. He practiced
his profession and was also in the real estate business in
Cleveland, O., until 1881, when he entered the law depart-
ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Since 1893 he had
been general counsel of the Pennsylvania Lines West of
Pittsburgh.

Mr. Brooks died of heart disease April 10, 1914, while
driving from his home at Shields, Pa., to inspect a new
residence he was building at Coraopolis Heights. He was
in the 69th year of his age.

He married at Pittsburgh, Pa., September 2, 1869,
Henrietta, daughter of Franklin and Sarah (Montgomery)
Faber, who survives him with three of their four sons, all
graduates of the Sheffield Scientific School, respectively in
1893, 1896, and 1908. The other son, who graduated from
the Sheffield Scientific School in 1900, died in 1907. A
brother, who was a non-graduate of the College, received
the honorary degree of Master of Arts from the University
in 1882, and is enrolled with the Class of 1861.

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Wallace Bruce, son of Alfred and Mary Ann (Mac-
Alpine) Bruce, was born November 10, 1844, at Hillsdale,
N. Y. He was prepared for college at the Hudson River
(now Claverack) Institute, Hudson, N. Y. While in
college he won prizes in debating, composition, and
declamation.

After graduation he studied law, one year at Troy,
N. Y., and two years in the office of William A. Beach, in
Hudson, N. Y. He was admitted to the bar at Albany
December 9, 1869. Soon afterward he entered the lecture
field, to which he devoted much of his life. His first
lecture was on "The Legends and Poetry of the Hudson,"
and his lectures on "Robert Burns," "Landmarks of
Scott," "Womanhood in Shakespeare," and "Washington
Irving" were most acceptable to very many hearers.

He resided at Poughkeepsie from 1871 to 1889. In
May of the latter year he was appointed by President
Harrison consul at Edinburgh, Scotland, and continued in
that position until September, 1893. While stationed in
Edinburgh, he recited his poem, "The Auld Brig's Wel-
come," at the unveiling of the Burns monument at Ayr,
and "The Immortal Memory of Burns" at Ayr, Glasgow,
and Leith, and made the address at the unveiling of
Symington's monument at Lead Hills, and the dedicatory
address at the unveiling of the Lincoln Monument at
Edinburgh, in memory of the Scottish-American soldiers
in the American Civil War. When he retired from his con-
sulship his services to Scottish literature were recognized
by a gift from the city officials, and he was made honorary
president of the Shakespeare Society of Edinburgh.

He was also the poet and orator at many centennial and
memorial occasions in the United States. His published
works include "The Land of Burns," 1878; "The Yosem-
ite," 1879; "The Hudson," 1882 and 1907; "The Long
Drama," 1883, a centennial poem at Newburgh, N. Y.;
"From the Hudson to the Yosemite," 1884; "Old Home-

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stead Poems," 1888; "In Clover and Heather," 1889;
"Here's a Hand," 1893; "Wayside Poems," 1894;
"Scottish Poems," "Leaves of Gold," and "Wanderers,"
all 1907.

From 1893 Mr. Bruce resided in Brooklyn, N. Y., and
for many years had a winter home at DeFuniak Springs,
Fla., the headquarters of the Florida Chautauqua, of
which he had been president since 1895.

Mr. Bruce died of paralysis at DeFuniak Springs, Jan-
uary 2, 19 1 4, in the 70th year of his age. He had not
been well since 1906. He was a member of the Reformed
(Dutch) Church.

He married at Schodack Depot (now Brookview), N. Y.,
June 29, 1870, Annie A. Becker, who survives him with
a daughter and two sons. The elder son graduated from
the Academical Department in 1900.

Benjamin Smith, son of Jonathan and Elizabeth
(Smith) Smith, was born at Pineville, Bucks County, Pa.,
August 1, 1840. The grandfather of his father and the
great-grandfather of his mother were brothers. His
father was a farmer, and the homestead had been in the
family for five generations. He was prepared for college
at Williston Seminary, and was in the Class of 1866 a few
weeks, but the following year joined the Class of 1867 at
the beginning of its course.

After graduation he became principal of the English and
Classical Seminary at Doylestown, Pa. In June, 1877, he
went to New York City, where he was principal of the
Friends' Seminary in 16th Street for about nine years, and
in 1886 went to Swarthmore College, where he was principal
of the preparatory department, and later professor and for
four and a half years vice-president of the College. Resign-
ing in 1892, he was in Chicago as secretary of the Friends'
Religious Congress a large part of the time for a year and
a half, then resumed teaching, and in November, 1895, was

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appointed principal of Plymouth Meeting Friends' School,
near Philadelphia, Pa., where he remained fifteen years. He
resigned in 19 10, and afterwards resided in Moorestown,
N. J., where he died of heart trouble May 18, 1913, in the
73d year of his age.

He married, October 3, 1867, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter
of Robert and Martha (Janney) Simpson of Pineville, Pa.
She died May 13, 1912, but their daughter (B.A. Swarth-
more 1890) and two sons are living.

1868

Joseph Scribner Burns, second of the eight children of
John Gray and Mary (Kimball) Burns, was born January
14, 1842, at Oxford, Me. He was fitted for college at Gould
Academy at Bethel, Me., and was a member of the Class of
1868 in Bowdoin College, joining the class at Yale at the
beginning of Senior year.

For ten years after graduation he made his home in the
South, the first three years engaged in the railroad busi-
ness and becoming assistant superintendent of the Bruns-
wick & Albany (Ga.) Railroad, now a part of the Atlantic
Coast System. In 1871 he resumed the study of medicine,
which he had given up when preparing for his academic
course, and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from
the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia Uni-
versity) in 1873. He at once began practice in Chattanooga,
Tenn., but in the summer of 1874 he sustained a partial
sunstroke, from which he recovered slowly, suffering much
from ill health until his final return North in April, 1879.

During the next twenty-five years he was engaged in
educational work, spending four years at the Highland
Military Academy, Worcester, Mass., three of these as
headmaster, and two years as professor of Latin and Greek
in the Pennsylvania Military Academy, Chester, Pa. From
1886 to 1889 he was master of mathematics in St. Paul's

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Cathedral School, Garden City, N. Y. He left there in 1889
to teach in Public School No. 19, in Brooklyn, and was
appointed principal of Public School No. 71, Brooklyn, in
September, 1890. He was promoted to the principalship
of Public School No. 6 in December, 1892, and remained
there until 1894, when he removed to East Orange, N. J.,
where he had lived at intervals for many years. From 1899
until early in 1906, when he was taken seriously ill, he was
principal of the High School in Hardwick, Mass. For
several years after this his home was in Braintree, Mass.
He died of locomotor ataxia, at Ashmont, Mass., July 26,
1913, at the age of 71 years. The burial was at Bryant
Pond, Me.

William Durant, son of William Clark and Ann Eliza-
beth (White) Durant, was born August 21, 1846, in Albany,
N. Y., and was prepared for college at the Albany Academy.

After graduation he spent a year in European travel, and
then entered Princeton Theological Seminary, from which
he graduated in April, 1872. The following summer he sup-
plied the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church in Mil-
waukee, Wise, and after traveling in the West, returned
to Albany. Then he was ordained to the ministry and
installed pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian Church, Decem-
ber 9, 1873. In May, 1883, he was installed over the First
Presbyterian Church of Morristown, N. J., but four years
later resigned to accept a call from the Boundary Avenue
Church in Baltimore, Md. He continued there until June,
1892, and then spent four months in France, Holland, and
England, returning in season to attend the ecclesiastical trial
of Professor Charles A. Briggs of Union Seminary, and
voting for his acquittal. In December, 1892, he was called to
the First Presbyterian Church of Saratoga Springs, and was
pastor there until 1908, when he retired from active work in
the ministry. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity
from Union University in 1894. He edited, under the title

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of "Church Polity," 1878, a series of articles which had
been contributed by Rev. Charles Hodge, D.D., Professor
in Princeton Seminary, to the Princeton Review, and pre-
pared a "History of the First Presbyterian Church," Mor-
ristown, with genealogical data. He also collected records
and biographical notes of the Durant family. He was a
cousin of both Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fowle Durant, the
founders of Wellesley College.

About 1909 he took up his residence in Wellesley, Mass.,
where he died March 1, 1914, in the 68th year of his age.
He was buried in Albany.

He married in Albany, July 17, 1878, Elizabeth Frances,
daughter of Thomas and Lucy (Bugden) Stantial. She
died in 1885, and May 19, 1887, he married her sister, Lucy
B., who survives him with a daughter, also a son by the
first marriage. Two daughters by the first marriage are
deceased. The son graduated from Union University as
a Bachelor of Engineering in 1904. The daughter is a stu-
dent at Wellesley College.

1869

John Chester Eno, son of Amos Richards Eno, a capi-
talist of New York City, and Lucy Jane (Phelps) Eno, was
born January 22, 1848, in New York City. He was pre-
pared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. He
was the Wooden Spoon man of his college class.

After graduation he was for some time in the banking
house of Morton, Bliss & Co., in 1873 went abroad and
remained a year and a half, and was later president of the
Second National Bank in New York City. From 1884 to
1893 he was in business in Canada, residing in Quebec and
interested in Canadian railway lines. He was treasurer of
the Lower Laurentian Railway Co., in the Province of Que-
bec. Returning to New York he was connected with the

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banking house of Decker, Howell & Co., but in recent years
had spent much of his time abroad.

Mr. Eno died of bronchial pneumonia at his home in New
York City, February 28, 19 14, at the age of 66 years.

He married, November 23, 1875, Harriet A., daughter of
W. H. Christmas of New York City. She died in October,
19 1 2, but two daughters survive him, another daughter
having died. Two brothers graduated from the College
in i860 and 1882, respectively.

John Cowles Grant, son of Rev. Joel Grant (B.A. Yale
1838) and Abigail Fidelia (Cowles) Grant, was born April
21, 1848, at Avon, Conn., where his father was then preach-
ing in the Congregational Church of West Avon. He was
a student in Beloit College until the end of Sophomore year,
and finished his course at Yale, coming from Lockport, 111.

Since graduation he had been continuously engaged in
educational work. He taught five years each at Lake Forest
(111.) Academy and Allen's Academy, Chicago. After a
year of foreign travel, he purchased in 1881 a half interest
in the Harvard School, a preparatory school for boys in
Chicago, affiliated since 1892 with the University of Chi-
cago. With this he continued his connection to the close
of his life. In 1897 he received the degree of Doctor of
Laws from Fargo College.

He was dean of Kenwood Institute for Young Ladies,
and a trustee of Tuskegee Institute. He was a member of
the board of managers of the Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation of Chicago, and an elder of the Second Presbyterian
Church, of which he prepared a "Historical Sketch" in
1891.

Dr. Grant died at St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, March
21, 1914, after an operation for appendicitis. He was in his
66th year. The interment was at Wiscassett, Me.

He married in Denver, Colo., July 14, 1878, Susan Rae
Henry, daughter of Charles Henry. She died January 14,

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1883, and August 11, 1886, he married Anna Foote, daugh-
ter of Isaac H. and Mary Tod (Foote) Coffin, of Wiscassett,
Me. She survives him with a daughter, also a daughter by
his first marriage.

Mitchell Davison Rhame, son of Samuel S. and Char-
lotte (Davison) Rhame, was born October 12, 1846, at
East Rockaway, Long Island, N. Y. After preparation at
Union Hall Academy, Jamaica, N. Y., he spent two years in
Union College, and then joined the class at Yale at the
beginning of Junior year.

After graduation he spent a year studying engineering in
the Sheffield Scientific School, and was then assistant in a
Government engineering party engaged in the improvement
of the Illinois River. In 1872 he was appointed Instructor
in Civil Engineering and Physics in the University of Min-
nesota, and was Assistant Professor of Engineering there
from 1873 to 1880.

Since then he had been engaged in railroad work, and
since March, 1881, had been in the employ of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. Starting as assistant engi-
neer, he was division engineer from 1891 to 1905, when he
was appointed engineer of construction, and in 1908 became
district engineer. He was connected with the building of
shops and terminal facilities at South Minneapolis, the
construction of various new lines, the double-tracking of
the river division from St. Paul to La Crosse, the construc-
tion of two hundred miles of the Puget Sound extension
from the Missouri River to the Montana state line, and
other important works.

He resigned on account of his health in September, 1913,
and died three months later, December 9, at his home in
Minneapolis, at the age of 67 years.

He married in New Haven, Conn., August 17, 1870,
Sarah Chidsey and had three sons and a daughter. The
daughter died in infancy, but Mrs. Rhame and the three

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sons — the youngest (LL.B. Univ. Minn. 1899) — survive
him.

Rufus Byam Richardson, son of Joseph and Lucy
Miranda (Byam) Richardson, was born April 18, 1845,
at Westford, Mass. He was prepared for college at
Lawrence Academy in the adjoining town of Groton.
In 1862 he enlisted in the Union Army in Company B,
Sixth Massachusetts Infantry, for nine months, and a
brother died while serving in the same regiment.

In 1868 he won the Yale Literary Magazine Medal, and
during his college course he rowed on his class crew.
At graduation he was one of the class historians, and for
three years thereafter held the Berkeley Scholarship. In
the autumn after graduation he entered the Divinity
School, and although he was unable to use his eyes in
reading for nearly two years, he received the degree of
Bachelor of Divinity in 1883 with enrollment in the Class
of 1872. During the summer of 1871 he preached in the
village of Moose River, Me., thirty miles from any other
village. In the summer of 1872 he went abroad and
remained two years, studying most of the time in Berlin.
In August, 1874, he returned to New Haven and, succeed-
ing his classmate Bernadotte Perrin, served the University
as Tutor in Greek four years. In 1878 he received the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and for two years follow-
ing was principal of the High School in Chicopee, Mass.
From 1880 to 1882 he was Professor of Greek in Indiana
University, and then until 1893 Lawrence Professor of
Greek in Dartmouth College. During the year 1890-91 he
was granted leave of absence to serve as director of the
American School of Classical Studies at Athens. In 1893
he resigned his professorship at Dartmouth to accept an
appointment as Director of the School at Athens for five
years, and he was reappointed for a like term. In 1894-
95 he excavated the ancient gymnasium at Eretria, and

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during the six years following the site of ancient Corinth
also.

In 1889 ne edited an edition of the Oration of iEschines
against Ctesiphon, and contributed many articles to the
Century, Scribne/s and other periodicals, and to the
American Journal of Archeology, chiefly regarding the
excavations of the American School at Athens. He was
the author of "Vacation Days in Greece," 1903; "Greece
through the Stereoscope," 1907; and a "History of Greek
Sculpture," 1910.

He was a member of the British Society for the Pro-
motion of Hellenic Studies, the Archaeological Society in
Athens, the Imperial and Royal Archaeological Society of
Germany, the Imperial and Royal Archaeological Institute
of Austria, and an associate of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences.

Since his return from Greece Professor Richardson had
made his home in Woodstock, Conn. He had been in ill
health for several years, but died of pneumonia at
Clifton Springs, N. Y., March 10, 1914, in the 69th year
of his age.

He married in Woodstock, September 6, 1877, Alice
Linden, daughter of Henry Chandler Bowen, of the New
York Independent, and Lucy Maria (Tappan) Bowen,
and had two sons and two daughters, of whom one son
(B.A. Yale 1905) and the daughters with Mrs. Richardson
survive him. One daughter is the wife of Albert Morton
Lythgoe, M.A. (B.A. Harvard 1892), director of the
department of Egyptology in the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York City. Professor Richardson was a
brother-in-law of Arthur Sherburne Hardy, Ph.D. (U. S.
Mil. Acad. 1869), former United States Minister to Greece,
also of Judge George C. Holt, LL.D. (B.A. Yale 1866).

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1870

Charles Hall Strong, son of Pascal Neilson Strong,
of New Orleans, La., was born in that city, December 29,
1850. His mother was Louisa (Hall) Strong. He was
prepared for college at home under a private tutor.

While in college he won a first prize in English compo-
sition in Sophomore year, and in Senior year was an editor
of the Yale Literary Magazine.

After graduation he studied until 1872 in the Berkeley
Divinity School in Middletown, Conn., excepting six months
in 1 87 1 spent in European travel. He was ordained Dea-
con May 26, 1872, in Grace Church, Brooklyn, where he
was assistant until the fall of 1873, and then in full charge
of that parish until February, 1874. He then accepted the
rectorship of Christ Church, Stratford, Conn., and was
ordained Priest in 1875. In 1878 he became rector of St.
John's Church, Savannah, Ga., where he continued to the
close of his life. The completion of twenty-five years of
service there was fittingly commemorated March 6, 1903.
He was for a time chairman of the Standing Committee of
his diocese. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity
from the University of Georgia in 1907. His course of lec-
tures on "The Romance and Art of Early Nations" made
him widely known in the South. He published a volume of
sermons, and in 1893, a volume "In Paradise."

He was president of the Yale Alumni Association of
Savannah from 1905 to 191 2. For twenty years he was
chaplain of the Savannah Volunteer Guards, with the rank
of captain.

Dr. Strong died after a short illness at a sanitarium in
Milledgeville, Ga., January 21, 1914, at the age of 63 years.

He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., February 12, 1874, Jen-
nie Butler Rich, daughter of Edward S. and Minnie
(Butler) Rich, and had three sons. Two of the sons were
special students at Cornell University in 1895 and 1898,
respectively.

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187I

William Tweedy Hazard was born in St. Louis, Mo.,
January 22, 185 1, the son of William Tweedy Hazard, a
native of Newport, R. L, and owner of flouring mills, who
settled in St. Louis in 1850. His paternal grandfather was
Hon. Nathaniel Hazard (B.A. Brown 1792). His mother
was Rebecca Ann, daughter of Robert Francis Naylor. He
was fitted for college at the St. Louis High School.

After graduation he was cashier for Snider & Holmes,
wholesale paper dealers of St. Louis, for about fifteen years,
then auditor of the Missouri Car & Foundry Co. over
ten years. The next two years he was assistant treasurer
of the American Car & Foundry Co., and from 1900 to
1906 auditor of the General Paper Co. of Chicago. Fol-
lowing this he was accountant agent for Cobe & McKinnon,
representing them at Belding, Mich., about two years, and
since then expert accountant with the G. B. Williams Print-
ing Co. of Chicago, acting for the Pilcher, Hamilton Co.,
wholesale paper dealers.

Mr. Hazard died of nephritis at the Henrotin Memorial
Hospital, Chicago, February 3, 1914. He was 63 years of
age.

He married at Woodlawn, Mo., September 12, 1888,
Florence McElroy, whom he divorced in 1910. He had
no children.

A brother (B.A. Washington Univ. 1865) and a sister
are deceased, but a brother who was a non-graduate of the
Class of 1867 in Yale College survives him.

Isaac Ogden Woodruff was the fifth of seven children
of Isaac Ogden and Arethusa Helena (Dewey) Woodruff.
His father moved from New York City to Quincy, 111., in
1836, and there the son was born April 30, 1848. He was
prepared for college at the High School in Quincy.

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After graduation he returned home, and was connected
with T. D. Woodruff in the book and stationery business
until 1874. He then came to New York City and for a year
or more afterward was with A. F. Spawn & Co. From
1876 to 1884 he was with T. L. Leeming & Co., commission
merchants dealing in druggists' supplies, until 1879, being
with the branch in Montreal, Canada, and then in New York
City. Since then he had been a member of the firm of
I. O. Woodruff & Co., manufacturing chemists in New York
City.

Mr. Woodruff had been Secretary of his class since about
1904. He received the degree of Master of Arts in course
in 1874.

He died in New York City, July 12, 191 3, at the age of
65 years. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal
Church.

He married at Pelhamville, N. Y., October 3, 1877, Char-
lotte Jane, daughter of James Montgomery Coburn and
Charlotte Jane (Van Camp) Coburn. She died April 12,
1882, and he married in New Haven, Conn., August 6, 1891,
Mary Daggett Higby, widow of Edward W. Higby, who
was for many years teller of the National New Haven
Bank, and daughter of Frederick and Susan (Hall) Dag-
gett. She died November 15, 19 10, in New York City, but
a son by his first marriage (B.A. Coll. City of N. Y. 1900)
survives him.

1872

Greene Kendrick, son of Hon. John Kendrick (B.A.
Yale 1843), and grandson of Hon. Greene Kendrick, who
was lieutenant-governor of Connecticut in 1851, was born
in Waterbury, Conn., May 31, 185 1. His mother was
Marian (Marr) Kendrick. He was prepared for college at
the Waterbury High School and Round Hill Seminary,
Northampton, Mass.

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In his Senior year in college he won the Berkeley and
Clark Scholarships and after graduation studied inter-
national law and comparative philology a year in the Gradu-
ate Department, and then entered the Law School. While
there he won several prizes, and received the degree of
Bachelor of Laws in 1875.

In October, 1874, he was elected city clerk of Waterbury,
and after completing his law course practiced his profession
there. In 1876, 1877, and 1878, he was a member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives from Waterbury.
From 1873 to 1885 he was state auditor. From 1883 to 1885
he was mayor of Waterbury, an office which his father had
previously held. From 1876 to 1888 he was a member of
the Board of Education, and in 1877-78 was attorney for
the city and from 1895 to 1902 attorney for the town of
Waterbury. In 1885 he was admitted to the New York
and Federal bars, and from 1887 to 1892 maintained an
office in New York City, making a specialty of patent and
railway cases, and was in partnership with Colonel H. H.
Finlay of Washington, D. C.

He was a delegate to many Democratic local, state, and
national conventions, and was noted as a campaign speaker.

After the great fire in Waterbury he sold the family
estate there, and since 1902 had resided in West Haven,
Conn., where he was at one time a burgess, and in 191 1 was
one of the incorporators of the Orange Bank and Trust Co.,
of which he was vice-president and a director. He had
spent much time in Greece and Rome, studying classical
antiquities, and had visited nearly all parts of the world.
He was a member of the American Oriental Society, and
the American Philological Association.

Mr. Kendrick died suddenly at his home in West Haven,
September 21, 191 3. He was 62 years of age.

In 1884 he married May, daughter of Hanford R. Nash
of New York City, and in 1889 he married Miss Laura
Cresson of Philadelphia, Pa. November 19, 1896, he mar-

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ried Flora Mabel, daughter of Edgar Lockwood of New
Haven, who survives him with a daughter. A brother
John, who left the Class of 1872 in Junior year, died in
1895.

James Oakey, son of James and Isabella Freeman (Coch-
ran) Oakey, was born in Terre Haute, Ind., January 8,
185 1. His father had enlisted in the first three years' regi-
ment from Indiana for the defence of the Union, and he
accompanied him to western Virginia, where he spent three
months with the army in the field. Soon after the Seven
Days Battles around Richmond his father died of fever in
a hospital. He was prepared for college at the Terre Haute
High School, but before entering college spent an entire
year and several vacation periods in a newspaper office and
taught for a time.

After graduation, he was in the Yale Divinity School two
years, preaching during the intervening summer at North
and Center Pomfret, Vt., and finished his theological studies
in the Chicago Theological Seminary. He was ordained
pastor of the Congregational Church at Elk Point, Union
County, S. D., October 31, 1875, and continued there two
years. From 1877 to 1881 he was pastor of the Presby-
terian Church at Ridgefield, 111., and then in succession of
Congregational Churches at West Point, and David City,
Nebr., where he secured extensive repairs on the church
building, which had been wrecked by a cyclone; at Pierre,
S. D., when it became the state capital, preaching also for
two years at Fort Pierre, across the Missouri River, where
he organized a church and secured for it a building ; Cresco,
la., where he persuaded the people to build a parsonage;
Zumbrota, Robbinsdale and at the same time Hopkins (sub-
urbs of Minneapolis), Brownton and Stewart, and Great
Meadow, Minn. During three of his five years at West
Point he was also pastor at Wisner in the same county,
where his labors resulted in a new church building.

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While at the churches in Brownton and Stewart, seven miles
apart, he usually preached three sermons each Sunday, and
frequently walked between the places. From 1905 to 1907
he preached at San Bernardino and Bloomington, Calif.
Later he was at Redmond and Avondale (near Seattle), at
Forks, Wash., from which he usually went on foot to
another station ten miles distant to preach, and at Sierra-
ville, Calif., a mile above sea-level, where there had previ-
ously been no preaching. For over thirty-five years he was
in ministerial service, and for over twenty years on home
missionary ground.

Mr. Oakey died from pneumonia complicated with
cerebro-spinal meningitis at Loma Linda, Calif., March 9,
1914, at the age of 63 years.

He married in Yankton, S. D., April 18, 1878, Sarah
Lewis Higbee, daughter of Isaac Newton Higbee, a civil
engineer. She died in 191 1, and the two sons are also
deceased, but two daughters (B.A. Carleton 1901 and
California State Normal School 1913, respectively) survive
them.

1873

Leonard Ballou Almy, son of Albert Henry Almy, who
was for years financial editor of the New York Sun, and
Amelia (Ballou) Almy, was born July 17, 1851, in Nor-
wich, Conn. He was prepared for college by F. Hoffman
at the Edwards Place School in Stockbridge, Mass.

After graduation from college he entered the Bellevue
Medical College and Hospital (New York University),
and in 1875 was appointed an ambulance surgeon at Belle-
vue Hospital. After receiving his medical degree in 1876,
he spent a year abroad, studying in the hospitals of Paris,
London, and Dublin.

Upon his return to Norwich, he was soon established in
a large general practice, and became eminent as a surgeon.
In 1883 he was appointed a medical examiner of New Lon-

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don County, and in 1887 he was made surgeon of the two
railroads at Norwich. In 1885 and 1886 he was president of
the Norwich Medical Society, in 1890 of the New London
County Medical Society, and in 1900 of the Connecticut
Medical Society, and was for several years one of the exam-
ining committee of the state society. He was one of the
visiting physicians to the Eliza Huntington Home in Nor-
wich, and the Hartford Retreat. He was a leader in
building the William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, and
was connected with it for fifteen years, resigning as
president, consulting surgeon, and gynecologist November
1, 1907.

In 1886 Dr. Almy was appointed surgeon of the Third
Regiment, Connecticut National Guard, with the rank of
major, in 1892 becoming brigade medical director with the
rank of lieutenant-colonel, and having charge of all the
medical work of the state's military forces. Soon after the
outbreak of the Spanish- American War in 1898, he was
commissioned major and chief surgeon of United States
volunteers, and served at Falls Church, Va., as chief sur-
geon of the second division of the second army corps. He
accompanied the division across Virginia to Thoroughfare
Gap, was transferred to the fifth corps, and built and
equipped an annex, with seven hundred beds, to the United
States general hospital at Montauk Point, Long Island. He
was himself taken ill there and carried home in October,
and was honorably discharged with special commendation
of his "faithful, energetic and efficient performance of
arduous service." His "Manual for Litter Drill for Hos-
pital Corps," prepared originally for his own brigade, was
adopted by the state for the use of the National Guard and
later by the United States army.

After a long period of suffering from gangrene, in Jan-
uary, 1906, Dr. Almy submitted to the amputation of his
right leg at the thigh, and in December, 191 2, of the left
leg. He attended his class reunion in 1908 in a wheeled

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chair. He died at his home in Norwich, September 27,
1913, at the age of 62 years.

He married in Norwich, June 21, 1876, Caroline Stowell,
daughter of Julius and Martha Ann (Thompson) Webb.
She died March 7, 1912, but their two daughters survive
him, the elder being the wife of Donald Chappell (B.A.
Yale 1900).

1874

Charles William Benton, son of Rev. William Austin
Benton (B.A. Yale 1843), f°r twenty years a missionary
of the American Board in Syria and Palestine, was born
January 20, 1852, at Tolland, Conn. His mother was
Loanza (Goulding) Benton of Worcester, Mass. He was
prepared for college at the National College at Beirut,
Syria, and at New London, Conn. In Junior year he was
awarded the W. W. DeForest Scholarship for excellence
in French.

After graduation from the College he spent two years in
the Yale Divinity School and a year in Union Theological
Seminary in special study of the Semitic languages. He
was then principal of a school at Mattapoisett, Mass., two
years, and taught in Boston a year. In 1879-80 he was a
candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Har-
vard University, but left his work there in Oriental lan-
guages to accept the Professorship of the French Language
and Literature in the University of Minnesota, later becom-
ing head of the department of Romance Languages there.
He went abroad several times, and during a year's leave of
absence in 1894 he devoted his time to study in Berlin and
Paris. Since 1908 he had been president of the local branch
of the Alliance Franchise. He was given the honorary
degree of Master of Arts by Yale in 1897, and of Doctor
of Letters by the University of Pittsburgh the same year.
While in the northern woods Professor Benton was stricken

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with paralysis early in September, 1913, and died Novem-
ber 11, in Minneapolis, at the Elliot Hospital on the Uni-
versity campus. That day a pension on account of disability
had been awarded him by the Carnegie Foundation. He
was in the 626. year of his age.

He was the author of "Golden Periods of Literature:
Italian, Dante," 1897, and edited "Easy French Flays for
School Use," 1900, and a series of "College French Plays,"
1909-11.

He married at Fergus Falls, Minn., May 29, 1899, Elma
C. Hixson, a graduate of Hamline University, daughter of
Hon. Daniel W. Hixson, a state senator. She survives him
with two sons.

One brother (B.A. Yale 1878) is living, but the other
(B.A. Yale 1875) died in 1901.

George Selah Brown, son of George W. and Elizabeth
R. Brown, was born March 27, 185 1, at Forestville, Conn.
He was fitted for college at the New Britain High School.

After graduation he took the course in Columbia Law
School, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws there-
from in 1876. Although admitted to the bar he did not
practice law, but had been continuously connected with the
Bristol (Conn.) Brass Co., for a number of years as
manager of the New York office and director of the com-
pany. After the death of his father in 1889 he became
agent of the company, for which he had traveled consider-
ably. He had quite recently been connected with the
Wheeling Stamping Co. of Wheeling, W. Va., with an
office in New York City.

Mr. Brown died suddenly from heart trouble at his home
in New Britain, December 8, 1913, in the 63d year of his
age. He was a member of St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal
Church.

He married in New Britain, October 11, 1876, Florence
R., daughter of Franklin Graham, who survives him with
a daughter. Three sisters are also living.

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Frank Jenkins, son of George and Hannah (Morgan)
Jenkins, was born March 19, 185 1, in Boonton, N. J. He
was fitted for college in Providence, R. I.

After graduation he became secretary to Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, and was connected with his paper, The
Christian Union, in various positions until 1879, the last
year being publisher. In June, 1879, he entered the bank-
ing firm of W. B. Hatch & Co. as junior partner, and two
years later that of Collins, Bouden & Jenkins. On account
of the death of Mr. Collins in 1887 the firm became Bouden
& Jenkins. About 1893 he became financial secretary of
Merritt Brothers of Duluth, Minn., then the largest owners
in the Masaba Ore Range of Minnesota. Owing to the
firm's heavy losses the next year, he went to Cuba to
develop some large manganese mines, but on account of
insurrection and the Spanish-American War he returned to
New York City, and since then had been president of the
Jenkins Coal Co.

Mr. Jenkins died of ursemic poisoning at his apartment
in The Ansonia, New York City, September 16, 191 3, at
the age of 62 years. He was unmarried. A brother
graduated from the Academical Department in 1870.

James Mulford Townsend, son of Hon. James Mulford
Townsend, founder of the Townsend prize in the Law
School, and Maria Theresa (Clark) Townsend, was born
in New Haven, Conn., August 26, 1852. He was prepared
for college at the Hopkins Grammar School.

In his Junior year in college he won a Junior Exhibition
prize, and in Senior year the DeForest Medal.

After graduation he studied in Columbia Law School,
and was at the same time in the law office of Chittenden &
Hubbard. He received the degree of Bachelor of Laws
from Columbia University in 1876, was admitted to the
New York bar, and at once became a member of the firm
of Chittenden & Hubbard, which was soon changed to

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Chittenden, Townsend & Chittenden, his partners being
Lucius Eugene Chittenden (M.A. Univ. Vt. 1855) and his
son, Horace Hatch Chittenden, Mr. Townsend's classmate.
This firm was dissolved in 1882, and Mr. Townsend prac-
ticed alone for twenty years, when, with Brainard Avery,
he formed the firm of Townsend & Avery, which afterward,
with the addition of William H. Button, became Townsend,
Avery & Button. He formed and was general counsel of
the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Co., known as the
Powder Trust, and defended it in the suit against it by the
United States Government under the Sherman Act in 1907.

In 1887 he was appointed Lecturer on Transfer of
Monetary Securities in the Yale Law School and continued
in the position until 1912. He had been a trustee of the
New York Law School since 1904, and in December, 1912,
was elected president.

Mr. Townsend died at his home at Mill Neck, Long
Island, N. Y., October 31, 191 3, at the age of 61 years.

He married in Lexington, Va., November 15, 1882, Har-
riet Bailey Campbell, daughter of John Lyle Campbell,
LL.D., who was for thirty-five years Professor of Chemis-
try and Geology in Washington and Lee University. She
survives him with their two daughters and four sons.
Three of the sons graduated from the Academical Depart-
ment in 1908, 191 o, and 19 12, respectively. His brother,
Hon. William K. Townsend (B.A. Yale 1871), was
Professor in the Yale Law School from 1881 until his death
in 1907.

1875
D wight Arven Jones, son of John Wyman Jones (B.A.
Dartmouth 1841), a lawyer and business man, and Harriette
Dwight (Dana) Jones, and a nephew of Professor
James Dwight Dana, was born October 25, 1854, in
Utica, N. Y., but spent his boyhood at Englewood, N. J.,
where he was prepared for college. He was chairman of

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the Junior Promenade Committee and a member of the
University Baseball Nine.

After graduation he took the course in the Columbia Law
School, receiving a prize in municipal law and the degree
of Bachelor of Laws in 1877, and at once began practice
in New York City, giving special attention to corporation
law.

He succeeded his father in 1904 in charge of his lead
interests in Missouri, becoming president of the St. Joseph
Lead Co., the Doe Run Lead Co., and the Mississippi River
& Bonne Terre Railway Co. He was also a director of the
Sherman National Bank, New York City. His country
home was at Englewood, N. J.

He published, with the collaboration of his classmate,
Edward W. Southworth, "A Treatise on the New York
Manufacturing Act of 1848 and the Business Corporation
Act of 1875," in 1884; and published also manuals on
New York Corporation Laws, "The Construction of Con-
tracts," in 1886, and "Negligence of Municipal Corpora-
tions," in 1892.

While on a business trip Mr. Jones died after an illness
of two days from apoplexy in St. Louis, Mo., December
7, 191 3, at the age of 59 years.

He married in New York City, October 23, 1879, Mary
Emily, daughter of Marshall LefTerts, who survives him
with their three daughters.

1876

John Porter, son of Charles Talbot Porter, a mechani-
cal engineer, and Harriet (Morgan) Porter, was born
August 11, 1854, in New York City. He was prepared for
college at Phillips (Andover) Academy. He was a mem-
ber of the University Glee Club in Junior and Senior years,
and chairman of the Junior Promenade Committee.

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Upon graduation he entered the office of D. P. Morgan
& Co., brokers in New York City, and continued with that
firm until it was dissolved by the death of Mr. David P.
Morgan in January, 1886. Since then he had been in the
firm of Fellowes Davis & Co., doing a stock and bond
commission business.

He had resided in Montclair, N. J., since 1884, and was
an original member and for some time president of the
Montclair Glee Club. He had served as treasurer of the
Church Club of the Diocese of Newark until recently.

Mr. Porter died at his home in Montclair, November 20,
191 3, of pneumonia following arthritis, from which he had
suffered for two years. He was 59 years of age.

He married in New York City, June 4, 1883, Elizabeth
K., daughter of William D. and Rachel E. (Keeler) Baker,
who survives him with a daughter and four sons. The
eldest son graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School
in 1907, and is now an Instructor there in Mechanical
Engineering, the second son graduated from Amherst
College in 19 10, and the third son is a member of the
Class of 1914 in the School. The daughter graduated from
Smith College in 1906.

George Mills Rogers, son of Hon. John Gorin Rogers
(LL.B. Transylvania 1841), from 1870 to 1883 judge on
the circuit bench of Cook County, 111., was born at Glasgow,
Ky., April 16, 1854. His mother was Arabella E., daughter
of Hon. B. Mills Crenshaw, formerly chief justice of Ken-
tucky. When he was three years old his parents removed
to Chicago, 111., where he had ever since resided. He came
to Yale from the Freshman class in Douglas University.

After graduation he studied law in the office of Craw-
ford & McConnell in Chicago, and in the Union College
of Law, now the Northwestern University Law School,
from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws
in 1878. He was at once admitted to the bar and formed

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a partnership with his brother-in-law, Samuel P. McConnell,
and Henry W. Raymond (B.A. Yale 1869), in the firm
of McConnell, Raymond & Rogers.

From 1883 to 1885 he was attorney of the Citizens'
Association, in 1885-86 was assistant city attorney of
Chicago, and in 1886 was appointed city prosecuting attor-
ney, but resigned the following year on account of the ill
health of his wife, and traveled for several months. In
November, 1887, he was appointed assistant United States
attorney, but soon resigned to devote himself to private
practice. Since 1889 he had been master in chancery of
the Circuit Court of Cook County, and since then he had
also been in partnership with Joseph P. Mahoney, the firm
name being Rogers & Mahoney. He was for several years
vice president of the Cook County Democratic Committee.
In 1903 he was elected by a large majority an additional
judge of the Circuit Court, but as the law creating a larger
number of judges in that court was declared unconstitu-
tional he never held the office.

Mr. Rogers died of pneumonia at his home in Chicago,
April 15, 1914, in the 60th year of his age.

He married, June 3, 1884, Phillipa Hone Anthon, daugh-
ter of Hone Anthon of New York City. March 15, 191 1,
he married Agnes L. Kerr, who survives him. He had
no children living. Two sisters are living.

George Loomis Sterling, son of Stephen Hawley and
Rebecca Jane (Brinsmade) Sterling, was born at Trumbull,
Conn., December 3, 1855. He was prepared for college at
private schools in Bridgeport.

After graduation he spent two years on a Clark Scholar-
ship in the Graduate School and two years in the Law
School. He received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in
June, 1880, and in October following was admitted to the
bar in New York City. The next two years he spent in
the law office of his uncle, John W. Sterling, LL.D. (B.A.

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Yale 1864), a member of the firm of Shearman & Sterling.
During this time he edited the fifth edition, and in 1887
the sixth edition of Burrill on Assignments. From Jan-
uary, 1883, to July, 1885, he was in the law office of Wil-
liam H. Morrison (B.A. Williams 1865), and was then
appointed junior assistant in the office of the Counsel to
the Corporation of New York City. He continued in that
office for twenty-eight years, in 1888 becoming assistant
and in February, 1891, general executive assistant. He
was an authority on municipal law, was counsel for the
city in most of the assessment cases for local improvements,
and had much to do with the drafting of important statutes.
Throughout his life he continued his interest in ancient
and modern languages, history, and economics.

In June, 19 13, he resigned his position, and made a
journey to Panama and South America for recuperation.
He returned in apparently excellent health and was pre-
paring to take up independent practice, when he died sud-
denly of heart disease in New York City, August 8, 19 13,
in the 58th year of his age. The burial was in Trumbull,
Conn.

He married, July 1, 1901, at St. Stephen's Church, New
York City, Marie Louise, daughter of Joseph and Catharine
(Chrystal) Doyle, who died in 1908. They had no chil-
dren. A nephew, George Sterling Mallett, graduated from
the college in 1906.

1879

Timothy Lester Woodruff, son of Hon. John Wood-
ruff, member of Congress from 1857 to 1861, was born
in New Haven, Conn., August 4, 1858. His mother was
Jane, daughter of Timothy Lester, of New Haven. She
died in i860, and his father in 1868. He was fitted for
college at the Betts Academy in Stamford, Conn., and
Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H.

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While in college he repeated his Junior year with the
Class of 1880, but left in 1879. In 1889, he received the
degree of Master of Arts from the University, and on
petition of his classmates of 1879, he was then enrolled by
the Corporation in that class.

After a few months at the Eastman Business College in
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., he began business life as clerk for
Nash & Whiton, wholesale salt and provision merchants
of New York City, having charge of their warehouse on
the North River, and in 1881 was admitted to partnership
in the firm, which was then called Nash, Whiton & Co.
This later became the Worcester Salt Co., of which he was
treasurer. His business interests rapidly increased, and in
1887 he was proprietor of the Franklin, Commercial,
Waverly, and Nye Stores, and two grain elevators on the
Atlantic Dock. On the organization of the Empire Ware-
house Co. in 1888, he became a director and member of its
executive committee, and in May of that year director and
secretary of the Brooklyn Grain Warehouse Co. In 1890 he
was chosen president of the Maltine Manufacturing Co.,
director of the Duncan Salt Co. and of the Merchants
Exchange National Bank, and trustee of the Kings County
Trust Co. and the Hamilton Trust Co. In 1891 he was
elected treasurer of the City Savings Bank of Brooklyn,
and afterward director of the Hudson River Paper Co.,
the Hamilton Trust Co., and the Mechanics Exchange
Bank, president of the Smith-Premier Typewriter Co. and
the Provident Life Assurance Co., and president of the
Pneumo-electric Machine Co. of Syracuse.

In the Brooklyn mayoralty campaigns of 1881 and 1883,
Mr. Woodruff was a member of the advisory and execu-
tive committees of the Young Republican Club, which
helped materially to elect Seth Low mayor. In 1885 and
many times subsequently he was a delegate to the Repub-
lican State Convention of New York, and in 1888 was for
the first time a delegate to the Republican National Con-

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vention in Chicago. In 1888 he became a member of the
Republican State Committee and for some years previous
to his withdrawal in 1912 was its chairman. In 1896 he
was appointed park commissioner of Brooklyn, and the same
year was elected lieutenant-governor of New York. To
this office he was twice reelected, serving with Governors
Black, Roosevelt, and Odel'l. During this time he took the
presidency of the New York State Agricultural Society and
greatly enlarged its activities. In 1900 he was a candidate
for the Republican nomination as vice-president of the
United States. At the Republican National Convention in
1908 he nominated James S. Sherman for vice-president.
When the Republican Convention in 19 12 failed to nominate
Colonel Roosevelt for the presidency of the United States,
Mr. Woodruff withdrew and joined the Progressive party.

While addressing a fusion ratification meeting in Cooper
Union in the New York City local campaign, Mr. Woodruff
was stricken with paralysis, of which he died two weeks
later, October 12, 191 3, at the age of 56 years.

He married in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., April 13, 1880, Cora
C, daughter of Hon. Harvey G. Eastman, formerly mayor
of that city, and founder of the Eastman Business College.
They had a son, John Eastman Woodruff (B.A. Yale
1904), and a daughter who died in infancy. Mrs. Wood-
ruff died March 28, 1904. Mr. Woodruff was married
again April 24, 1905, his second wife being Isabel, daugh-
ter of J. Estevan Morrison, at one time a banker in New
York City, who survives him.

For many years, Mr. Woodruff resided in Brooklyn, and
until August, 1913, owned "Kamp Kill Kare" in the
Adirondack Mountains, where many political conferences
were held.

From the establishment of Adelphi College in Brooklyn
in 1896 until 1908, he was president of the Board of
Trustees, continuing on the board to the end of his life.

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1880

William DeLuce Barnes, youngest son and eighth of
the ten children of Alfred Smith and Harriet (Burr)
Barnes, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., December 17, 1856.
He was prepared for college at the Gunnery at Washington,
Conn., and Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. He
was for a few weeks a member of the Class of 1879, but
reentered with the Class of 1880.

After graduation he visited Europe in company with his
classmates Dull, Jennings, Keyser, and Murray, and upon
his return entered his father's book publishing business,
being admitted into partnership in 1886. Some y^ars later
the firm sold its interest in school books to the American
Book Co. and he withdrew, but later returned to take
charge of the steel pen department. In 1903 he again with-
drew, and since then had been mainly engaged in some
form of insurance. Since 1909 he had been connected with
the Continental Casualty Co. of Chicago, 111.

Mr. Barnes died of Bright's disease at the Presbyterian
Hospital in New York City, January 2, 1914. He was 57
years of age. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery,
Brooklyn.

He married at Mansfield, Mass., October 28, 1881, Mabel
Frances, daughter of David E. and Frances (Rogers)
Harding. Two sons (B.A. Yale 1904 and 1907, respec-
tively) survive him. The elder of them was the Class Boy.
A brother (B.A. Yale 1866) died in 191 1. His eldest
sister married Rev. Charles Ray Palmer, D.D. (B.A. Yale
1855).

Preston King, son of William Smith King, a pioneer
settler of Minneapolis, Minn., and Mary Eliza (Stevens)
King, was born February 6, 1857, in I'lion, N. Y., but when
two years old removed with the family to Minneapolis.
He was fitted for college at Williston Seminary, Easthamp-

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ton, Mass. In college he was a member of his class crew,
and of the University Football team of 1878.

After graduation he was with C. A. Pillsbury & Co., a
milling firm, until 1886, then for two years with his father
in the real estate business, and in 1888 became treasurer of
the North Star Boot & Shoe Co. After four years he sold
his interest in that company, and aided in readjusting the
affairs of the Northrup, Braslau & Goodwin seed house,
which was reorganized under the firm name of Northrup,
King & Co. Of this he had been vice-president and
treasurer since 1895. In 1893 he made an extended trip
abroad.

Mr. King died of cerebral thrombosis after a week's ill-
ness at his home in Minneapolis, January 18, 1914. He
was in his 57th year.

He married in Minneapolis, February 2, 1887, Josephine
Florence, daughter of Rev. Elbridge and Isabel Catherine
(Sawyer) Marrs, who survives him with a son, Lyndon M.
(B.A. Yale 19 10), and a daughter. His mother is also
living.

Alfred Bull Nichols, son of Rev. John Cutler Nichols
(B.A. Yale 1824), was born July 7, 1852, at Lebanon,
Conn., where his father was pastor of the Congregational
Church. For a number of years his father conducted a
family school for boys in Lebanon, and after 1857 in Old
Lyme, Conn. His mother was Mary, daughter of James
R. Woodbridge, of Hartford, Conn., and a direct descendant
of Rev. Samuel Woodbridge (B.A. Harvard 1701), who
was a Fellow of Yale College from 1732 to 1743.

For the benefit of his health he went to St. Paul, Minn.,
in 1870, and later to Quincy, 111., spending three years in
the two places. After a year of travel in Europe he
finished his preparation for college at Williston Seminary,
Easthampton, Mass.

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In Junior year he was awarded the medal of the Yale
Literary Magazine, and in Senior year was a member of
its board of editors.

The year after graduation he taught at the Park Insti-
tute in Rye, N. Y., and for three years following was a
student in the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge,
Mass., from which he received the degree of Bachelor
of Divinity in 1892. He was ordained Deacon June 18,
1884, and Priest December 14, 1885, but in 1902 laid down
his orders and became a layman. From 1884 to 1887 ne
was Tutor in German in Yale College, and at the same
time was assistant minister in St. Thomas's Church in New
Haven. The next two years he spent in Europe in the
study of German, and upon his return was appointed Instruc-
tor in German in Harvard University, continuing in that
position twelve years. While at Harvard his work was
much interrupted by ill health, and while tramping in Swit-
zerland in the summer of 1889 he was taken seriously ill
and was for many months in a hospital in Munich. In
1903 he became Professor of German in the newly estab-
lished Simmons College in Boston, where he remained until
191 1. After starting for Maine, as was supposed, he
disappeared, September 9, 191 3, and his body was found
nearly three months afterward in the woods of Concord,
Mass. He was 61 years of age and was not married. A
memorial service for him was held in the Church of the
Disciples in Boston, January 17, 19 14.

Edward Parish Noyes, son of Rev. Daniel Parker Noyes
(B.A. Yale 1840), Tutor in Yale College from 1843 to
1847, and Helen McGregor (Means) Noyes, was born
September 26, 1857, in New York City, where his father
was then secretary of the American (now Congregational)
Home Missionary Society. During his boyhood he also
lived at Orange, N. J., and Brookline and Rockport, Mass.

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He was prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass.

After graduation he learned the machinist's trade in the
Lowell (Mass.) Machine Shops, studying especially the
construction of cotton machinery. He spent considerable
time for the company in the South superintending the
equipment of cotton mills, especially in South Carolina
and Tennessee, continuing this line of work until 1884,
when he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and took a special one-year course. For nine years follow-
ing he was connected with the Neverslip Horseshoe Co.
of Boston, and after that was treasurer of the Hancock
Inspirator Co. until July, 1896. Since then he had been
an expert in mechanical engineering, his office being in
Boston and his residence since 1892 in Winchester.

Mr. Noyes died suddenly of heart trouble at his home in
Winchester, September 20, 1913, in the 56th year of his
age.

He married, November 7, 1891, in Hastings, England,
Jessie Porter Hill, daughter of Richard and Harriet (Win-
ter) Hill, of Davenport, la. She died July 22, 1897, but
two daughters and a son survive him. A brother (B.A.
Yale 1885) is Assistant Professor of English in Colorado
College.

John Bliss Porter was born September 27, 1857, in St.
Augustine, Fla., but during his infancy the family came
North. His father was Dr. John Bliss Porter, who was
for thirty years a surgeon in the United States Army and
served in the Mexican and Civil Wars, retiring with the
rank of major shortly before his death in 1869. His
mother was Mary Smith (Merriam) Holden Porter, who
died in 1859. Much of his boyhood was spent in Coventry,
Conn., and he obtained his preparation for college at the
Willimantic (Conn.) High School and Williston Seminary,
Easthampton, Mass.

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After graduation from college he took the course in the
Yale Law School, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws
in 1882. Since that time with the exception of a few months
in 1886-87 sPent in New York City, he had lived in
Chicago. He did not long practice law, but was for several
years in the real estate business. Since 1892 he had been
connected with the Department of Electricity of Chicago,
and for a number of years past had served as its secretary,
his office being in the City Hall.

Mr. Porter was for two years a director of the Hamilton
Club, and was the first editor of The Hamiltonian, pub-
lished by the Club. He had been president of the Chicago
Whist Association, and a director of the American Whist
League.

He died at Rest Home, a private sanitarium in Elgin,
111., October 30, 191 3, at the age of 56 years.

He married in Chicago April 12, 1898, Harriet Mary
Winefride, daughter of Captain Henry Bloxsim, formerly
of the Confederate army. She died in 1904, but their
daughter is living.

1881

Edwin Morgan Adee, son of George Townsend Adee,
a dry-goods merchant and afterward vice-president of the
Bank of Commerce of New York City, was born July 5,
1857, in Westchester, N. Y., which had been the home of
his family for four generations. His mother was Ellen
Louise (Henry) Adee, daughter of Philip Henry, an old
New York merchant and soldier of the War of 1812. He
was prepared for college at the private school of Brainerd
T. Harrington (B.A. Amherst 1852) in his native town.
He was a member of the Class of 1879 two years, later
was in the Class of 1880 until the end of the first term of
Junior year, and finished his course with the Class of 1881.

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After graduation he studied in Columbia Law School,
but did not practice. Until his mother's death in 1900 he
made his home at Westchester, but since then on account
of his health had lived at Cromwell (Conn.) Hall, where
he was greatly beloved, and where he died of heart trouble,
March 12, 1914, in the 57th year of his age. The burial
was in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York. He was a com-
municant of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was
not married.

His brothers all graduated from the Academical Depart-
ment, George A. (died 1908) in 1867, Frederick W. (died
1900) and Philip H. in 1873, and Ernest R. (died 1903)
in 1885. His sister is the widow of M. Dwight Collier
(B.A. Yale 1866).

Richard Hays McDonald, son of Dr. Richard Hays
McDonald (M.D. Univ. Missouri 1844) and Sarah Maria
(Whipple) McDonald, was born in Sacramento, Calif.,
August 28, 1854, and lived there until he was eleven years
old. He attended the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn,
N. Y., and the Institution Massin in Paris, studied medicine
and surgery at the University of Jena, Germany, and
entered Yale after preparation at the Hopkins Grammar
School in New Haven. He was a member of the Class of
1880 in Freshman year, but joined the Class of 1881.

After graduation he was a member of the Senior class
in Harvard University, and received the degree of Bachelor
of Arts there in 1882. Returning to California, he was
vice-president of the Pacific Bank in San Francisco until the
bank went into liquidation in 1893. He then studied law,
and in 1897 was admitted to practice as an attorney. He
was treasurer and a director of the California State Board
of Silk Culture, and an officer of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Vice, the Geographical Society of California, the
State Historical Society, and the California Pioneer
Society. He published many articles in the California

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Illustrated Magazine, and was for a year president of the
publishing company.

Mr. McDonald died from rupture of the heart following
myocarditis in San Francisco, September 23, 1913, at the
age of 59 years.

He married at Vacaville, Calif., July 2, 1884, Clara Bill
Gardner, of Carson City, Nev., and had a daughter. Later
he married Elsa Bender, of St. Louis, Mo., who died
November 15, 1903. His brother, Frank V. McDonald
(B.A. Yale 1878), died in 1897.

Henry Charles White, son of Thomas Broughton
White, a merchant of New York City, and Catherine Lydia
(Stewart) White, was born September 1, 1856, in Utica,
N. Y. Until 1859 ms home was in Brooklyn, N. Y., and
then in Vernon, N. Y., where his father died in 1861 and
his mother in 1863. From 1871 to 1875 he studied in
Hungerford Collegiate Institute at Adams, N. Y., and
finished his college preparation at Phillips Academy, Exeter,
N. H.

While in college he contributed to the Record and
Courant, was a speaker at the Junior Exhibition, won the
Cobden Club medal in Senior year, was president of his
class football team during the course, and was class deacon.

After graduation he entered the Yale Law School,
received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1883, and after
a year of further study the degree of Master of Laws in
1884. From 1 88 1 to 1896 he was a director of the Yale
Field Corporation, and from 1886 to 1893 he was Lecturer
in the Graduate Department on Political Science.

He opened an office in New Haven in 1883, and practiced
law by himself until 1888, but since then had been in part-
nership with Leonard M. Daggett (B.A. Yale 1884).
In 1901, Hon. John Q. Tilson (B.A. Yale 1891) was
admitted to the firm, which then took the name of White,
Daggett & Tilson. On the retirement of Mr. Tilson upon

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his election to Congress in 1908, James Kingsley Blake
(B.A. Yale 1891) succeeded him in the firm, which became
White, Daggett & Blake. Since the death of Mr. Blake
the firm had been White, Daggett & Hooker, by the admis-
sion of Thomas Hooker, Jr. (B.A. Yale 1903), until its
consolidation in 191 3 with the firm of Bristol, Stoddard &
Fisher, under the name of Bristol & White. Mr. White
was a member of the executive committee of the State Bar
Association and from about 1892 had been a member of the
State Bar Examining Committee.

He served on three legislative commissions, the first
appointed in 1889 to investigate the affairs of the town of
New Haven, the second in 1894-95 to prepare a new
charter for the city of New Haven, and the third from
1899 to 1903 to revise the general statutes of the state and
prepare a new corporation law and a tax law for banks
and insurance companies. In 1897 and 1898, he was a
member of the Board of Finance of the city.

He was a director of the New Haven Chamber of Com-
merce, and of the Carrington Publishing Co., publishers of
the New Haven Journal-Courier. He was a trustee of the
New Haven Orphan Asylum, and a director of the Organ-
ized Charities Association and of the General Hospital
Society of Connecticut, which conducts the New Haven
Hospital. He was a director of the First National Bank
of New Haven for eleven years, the Union and New Haven
Trust Co., and the Mexican International Railroad Co.
Since 1884 he had been a member of the Center (Congre-
gational) Church. He was deacon of the church from
1887 to 1 89 1, and later a member of the standing committee.

Mr. White died after a lingering illness from intestinal
tuberculosis at his home in New Haven, February 7, 1914,
at the age of 57 years. He was buried in the Grove Street
Cemetery.

He married at Morris Heights, New York City, May 5,
1903, Lucy Sophia, daughter of Gustav and Catherine

626 YALE COLLEGE

Elizabeth (von Post) Schwab, and sister of John Chris-
topher Schwab, Ph.D. (B.A. Yale 1886), Librarian of the
University. They had no children. Mrs. White, also his
sister (B.A. Vassar 1881) survive him.

In his will he left a bequest which goes ultimately to the
University Library.

1883

William Hutchinson Merrill, son of Luke Taylor
and Nancy Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Merrill, was born in
Brooklyn, N. Y., December 13, i860. He was prepared for
college at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass.

After graduation he studied at home a year and then in
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, receiving the
degree of Doctor of Medicine from Columbia University
in 1887. He then studied in the hospitals of Gottingen,
Berlin, Dresden, and Prague, in Europe, and upon his
return spent two years at the Ward's Island Immigrant
Hospital until it was closed. In 1891 he began practice in
Pepperell, Mass., but at the end of three years his health
gave out, and during the winter season he acted as physician
to the Jekyl Island Club, Ga., and in the summer was in
private practice at Watch Hill, R. I. He died at Pepperell,
Mass., after a long illness, December 2, 1913. He was in
the 53d year of his age.

He married, May 14, 1901, Anna Kinsman Phelps,
daughter of Hon. Benjamin Kinsman Phelps (B.A. Yale
1853) and Hannah Maria (Catlin) Phelps, and sister of
his classmate, Dudley Phelps.

Joseph Robinson Parrott, son of George J. Parrott, a
woolen manufacturer, and Mary S. (Robinson) Parrott,
was born October 30, 1858, in Oxford, Me. He was pre-
pared for college at Hebron, Me., and Phillips Academy,
Andover, Mass. While in college he was captain of his

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class football team, was on the class crew two years, and
during Junior and Senior years and the two years of his
law course he was a member of the University crew.

Upon receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1885,
he began practice in the office of Hon. Charles F. Libby,
LL.D. (B.A. Bowdoin 1864), in Portland, Me. After
about a year there he went to Jacksonville, Fla., and was
associated with the firm acting as counsel for the Jackson-
ville, Tampa & Key West Railroad, which was merged with
the Florida Southern Railroad. Mr. Parrott became
receiver for both railroads. When through Mr. H. M.
Flagler's aid the Florida Southern Railroad was placed on
a sound basis, Mr. Parrott was appointed chief cpunsel and
vice-president of that line and of the Florida East Coast
Railroad. Gradually he was given the management of all
Mr. Flagler's railroad, steamship, hotel, and land enter-
prises. He planned and superintended the building of the
railroad, more than seventy miles in length, over the Florida
keys to Key West. This notable engineering achievement
attracted wide attention. Mr. Parrott's part in the work
was described in Everybody's Magazine, February, 1908,
and Human Life, January, 19 10. In April, 1909, he
became president of the Florida East Coast Railway, and
he was also president of the Peninsular and Occidental
Steamship Co., the Florida East Coast Hotel Co., the Fort
Dallas Land Co., and the Model Land Co.

He was vice-president of the Florida National Bank and
chairman of the trustees of the Carnegie Library of
Jacksonville.

He had a summer home on Megquier Island in Lake
Thompson, Me., and there he died suddenly Of angina
pectoris, October 13, 1913, in the 55th year of his age.
His funeral was in St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church
in Jacksonville, and the burial in that city.

Mr. Parrott married, October 2, 1886, Helen Mercer, of
New Haven, who survives him with a daughter.

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David Farnum Read, son of David McNamary Read
and Helen Augusta (Barnum) Read and grandson of
Moses Farnum Read, was born October 6, i860, in Bridge-
port, Conn. He was fitted for college at the Bridgeport
High School.

Soon after graduation he entered the retail dry goods
business established by his father in Bridgeport in 1857,
and in 1884 the D. M. Read Co. was formed, in which
he and his brother, Charles B. Read, were associated with
their father. Of this company he later became head, also
of The Read Carpet Co., manufacturers of rugs. He was
a director and vice-president of the City National Bank
of Bridgeport, and an incorporator and trustee of the
People's Savings Bank.

From 1891 to 1907 he was a member of the Board of
Education, and its vice-president at the time of his resigna-
tion, and later was a director of the Bridgeport Trade
School. He was appointed a member of the Sinking Fund
Commission in 1907, and elected a member of the Park
Board of the city in 1908. He had been a director of the
Bridgeport Boys' Club since 1894, was first vice-president
of the Bridgeport Hospital, one of the executive committee
of the Bridgeport Historical and Scientific Society, a direc-
tor of the Mountain Grove Cemetery Association, and
served the best interests of the city in many other ways.
He was a member of the executive committee of the Fair-
field County Yale Alumni Association. From 1883 to 1886
he was lieutenant in the Signal Corps of the Connecticut
National Guard.

His health had been declining for two years, and he gave
up the active management of his business two months before
his death, which occurred at his home in Bridgeport, April
30, 19 1 3. He was in the 53d year of his age and had never
married.

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1 884

Maxwell Evarts, youngest of the twelve children of
Hon. William Maxwell Evarts, LL.D. (B.A. Yale 1837),
and Helen Minerva (Wardner) Evarts, was born in New
York City November 15, 1862. His father was for nine-
teen years an Alumni Fellow of the Yale Corporation. His
grandfather, Jeremiah Evarts, graduated from the College
in 1802. He was fitted for college at St. Paul's School,
Concord, N. H.

After graduation he studied two years in the Harvard
Law School, and was then in the law office of Seward,
DaCosta & Guthrie until the summer of 1889. In 1890 he
was appointed an assistant United States attorney for the
Southern District of New York. He held this office two
years, after which he entered the law department of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Co. In recent years he had been
active in the councils of the Southern Pacific Railroad Co.,
Union Pacific Railroad Co., and affiliated lines of the Harri-
man system. In 1904 he was elected a director of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Co., for several years was an
attorney of the Harriman system, and in 19 10 was made
general counsel of the Oregon Short Line and the Oregon
Railroad and Navigation Co. Upon the recent separation
of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads he
became general counsel of the Southern Pacific Co. He had
also been a director of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. and
the Union Pacific Land Co.

His home was in Windsor, Vt., the old home of the family,
and he had taken an active interest in the business, political,
and agricultural life of that state. He was president of
the State National Bank of Windsor, vice-president of the
Windsor Machine Co., half owner of the Amsden (Vt.)
Lime Co., president of the Vermont State Fair Association,
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Vermont Fish and Game League. He was a member of the
Vermont House of Representatives in 1906.

Mr. Evarts died from an intestinal trouble at his home in
Windsor, October 7, 1913, in the 51st year of his age.

He married in New York City, April 23, 1891, Margaret
Allen Stetson, daughter of Charles Augustus and Josephine
(Brick) Stetson, and had four daughters and a son. The
son is a member of the Academical Class of 191 7. Two
of his brothers graduated from Yale College in 1869 and
1 88 1, respectively, and two from Harvard in 1872 and
1 88 1, respectively.

Frank Dean Trowbridge, son of Winston John Trow-
bridge, was born March 16, 1861, on the Island of Barba-
dos, in the West Indies, where his father then resided as
a representative of the firm of H. Trowbridge's Sons, sugar
merchants of New Haven. His mother was Margaret
Elford (Dean) Trowbridge. In 1864 the family returned
to New Haven, and he was prepared for college at the Hop-
kins Grammar School in New Haven, and the Black Hall
School in Lyme, Conn.

After graduation he spent most of the first two years in
travel, and was then with Hazard & Parker, bankers and
brokers in New York City, about a year. In 1888 he entered
the National New Haven Bank as assistant teller. He was
soon afterward advanced to the position of teller, became
cashier July 1, 1902, and was elected president in September,
1903. He also served as chairman of the New Haven Sink-
ing Fund Commission.

Mr. Trowbridge died of heart trouble after an illness of
two months at his home in New Haven, November 5, 1913,
at the age of 52 years. He was a member of the Center
Church.

He married in Davenport, la., May 16, 1889, Carrie
Haven Hubbell, daughter of George Edward and Mary
Brewster (Pease) Hubbell, who survives him with two

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daughters, one of whom married A. Fletcher Marsh (Ph.B.
Yale 1910). Two brothers (B.A. Yale 1879 and 1887,
respectively), and three sisters — one the widow of Judge
William K. Townsend (B.A. Yale 1871) and another the
wife of Professor Horatio M. Reynolds (B.A. Yale 1880)
— are also living.

1885

Francis Joseph Vernon, son of Samuel Vernon, a
wholesale paper dealer and manufacturer, and Martha Ade-
line (Richardson) Vernon, was born July 17, 1864, in
Brooklyn, N. Y., where he was fitted for college at the
Adelphi Academy. His father was a native of Appledore,
North Devon, England, but before coming to the United
States was a manufacturer and merchant in Barnstable,
Devonshire. He died in 1870.

He was a member of the Class of 1885 until Junior year,
but graduated with 1886. By vote of the Corporation in
191 1, however, in accordance with a recommendation of the
College Faculty he was enrolled in the Class of 1885. He
rowed in a victorious Dunham crew in Sophomore year, and
was a member of the Junior Promenade Committee of 1885.

The first year after graduation he was a salesman for the
Dixon Crucible Co. in New York City, and in 1888 became
secretary of the Dilston Knitting Co. of Brooklyn. Soon
afterward he engaged in the manufacture of folding paper
boxes, blank books, and novelties, at first in the firm of
F. J. Vernon & Co., with factories in New York City, but
later was president of the Vernon Carton Co. in the Wil-
liamsburg section of Brooklyn. He was also treasurer of
the Samuel Vernon Estate. He was one of the founders
of the Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn.

Mr. Vernon died of double pneumonia at the Manhattan
Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital in New York City, Febru-
ary 16, 1914. He was in his 50th year, and was not mar-

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ried. The burial was in Greenwood Cemetery. Three
sisters and two brothers, one of them a graduate of the
College in 1881, also a cousin (B.A. Yale 1889), survive
him.

1886

John Charles Adams, son of Edson Adams, was born
in Oakland, Calif., January 19, 1862. He was fitted for
college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.

After graduation he studied two years in the Harvard
Law School, and then returned to Oakland to take up the
management of his father's estate, becoming secretary of
the California Development Co. and an officer of the Oak-
land Dock and Warehouse Co. He was closely identified
with banking and other corporations, and had large real
estate interests.

Mr. Adams died after an operation for appendicitis in
Oakland, November 8, 19 13, in the 52d year of his age.

He married in San Francisco, December 16, 1897,
Ernestine Shannon Haskell, daughter of Dudley Haines
Haskell, of San Francisco. Mrs. Adams survives him with
five children — four sons and a daughter.

Elliot Cowdin Lambert, third of the four sons of
Edward Wilberforce Lambert, M.D. (B.A. Yale 1854), and
Martha Melcher ( Waldron) Lambert, was born in New
York City, May 9, 1863. He was prepared for college
under private tutors.

The year after graduation he spent in the dry goods com-
mission business in New York City, then studied mechanics
and dynamical engineering as a Graduate student in the
Sheffield Scientific School a year, was for three years with
the Willimantic (Conn.) Linen Co., a year with the Clark
Thread Co. of Newark, N. J., and since then had been with
the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. in Manchester, N. H.,

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becoming assistant superintendent in March, 1895, and
general superintendent of the cotton manufacturing March

23, I903-

For several years he was a member of the Manchester
Board of Education, and for five years was its secretary.
During the last two terms he was a member of the New
Hampshire Legislature.

Mr. Lambert died of cancer of the liver at the home of
his brother, Dr. Samuel W. Lambert, in New York City,
April 8, 1914, in the 51st year of his age. His three
brothers (B.A. Yale 1880, 1884, and 1893, respectively) are
all physicians.

He married at Weymouth Heights, Mass., January 16,
1895, Annie Maynard, daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann
(Eaton) Thompson, who survives him with a son and
daughter.

1887

Allan Blair Bonar, son of Rev. James Blair Bonar
(B.A. Wabash 1853) and Elizabeth L. (Geer) Bonar, was
born August 20, 1863, in Montreal, Canada, where his
father was pastor. Six years later his father was called
to the Congregational Church in New Mil ford, Conn., and
continued there until 1883. He was prepared for college
at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

After graduation he entered the College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Columbia University, from which he
received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1890. For
a time he was at the Vanderbilt Clinic of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons and in the out-patient department
of Roosevelt Hospital, and then practiced about two years
each in Tacoma, Wash., and Marquette, Mich. From 1895
to 1 90 1 he practiced in New York City, the first year as
clinical assistant in neurology and later in the throat and
nose department in the St. Bartholomew Clinic, the fol-

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lowing year was resident physician at the Incurable Hos-
pital on Blackwell's Island, and then in general practice.
In 1898 he traveled extensively abroad with a patient. In
June, 1901, he became medical examiner and district
inspector for the Equitable Life Assurance Society in
Louisville, Ky., and in May, 1907, was transferred to a
similar position in Memphis, Tenn.

He published "Sensory Disturbances in Locomotor
Ataxia" in the Medical Record, and editorials, abstracts
and reviews in the Medical News and the Journal of Mental
and Nervous Diseases, and prepared the section on
neurology and nervous diseases in Butler's "Medical
Diagnosis."

Dr. Bonar died in Detroit, Mich., August 16, 19 13, being
within a few days of 50 years of age.

He married in East Orange, N. J., September 5, 1901,
Caroline A., daughter of Philip and Barbara Busick, of
New York City.

Charles Mills Hinkle, son of Anthony Hughes and
Frances (Schillinger) Hinkle, was born June 12, 1862, in
Cincinnati, O. He was prepared for college at Phillips
Academy, Andover, Mass. During his whole college
course he was a member of the Yale Glee Club, and at
graduation was a class historian.

For a few years after graduation he was with Van
Antwerp, Bragg & Co., school-book publishers in Cincin-
nati, successors to the business of Wilson, Hinkle & Co.,
of which his father had been one of the founders, but since
then had not been in active business. From 1891 to 1893
he traveled extensively in Europe, Japan, and Egypt.

He made his home in summer and fall in Osterville, on
Cape Cod, Mass., in winter at Aiken, S. C, and in the spring
usually at Hot Springs, Va., where he died suddenly of
intestinal toxaemia, June 7, 1913. He was nearly 51 years
of age.

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He married in Covington, Ky., April 29, 1891, Mary F.,
daughter of James W. and Rachel Gaff, who survives him
with two sons and a daughter. A brother graduated from
the College in 1869.

1888

Frank Vincent Millard, son of James Slade Millard
(B.A. Yale 1863) and Elizabeth A. (Purdy) Millard, was
born February 27, 1867, at Tarrytown, N. Y. He was
prepared for college at Irving Institute there.

After graduation he spent a year and a half in Columbia
Law School, was admitted to the New York bar in
February, 1890, and then entered his father's office in
Tarrytown, continuing practice alone after the latter's
death the following October.

He was counsel of the village of Tarrytown for fifteen
years and for a time also of the town of Greenburgh, in
which Tarrytown is situated. From 1890 to 1892 he was
town clerk and the following year supervisor. In 1896
he was elected chairman of the Republican committee of
Westchester County, and a delegate to the Republican
National Convention at St. Louis. In 1900 he was a
Presidential elector from the state of New York. From
1906 to 1912 he was surrogate of Westchester County, after
which he resumed his practice.

He was a director of the Westchester & Bronx Title &
Mortgage Co., the Westchester County Savings Bank, of
which he was also counsel, and of the Young Men's
Lyceum. He was for some time a member of the Board
of Education and for five years was chief of the fire
department.

While crossing the tracks of the New York Central &
Hudson River Railroad at Tarrytown, Judge Millard was
struck by a train and killed instantly, February 4, 19 14.
He was in his 47th year.

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He married in Christ Church, Tarrytown, December 30,
1891, Grace, daughter of Isaac Requa. She survives him
with three daughters.

Edward Pond, son of Hon. Edward Bates Pond, an
importer and commission merchant, and Sarah C. (McNeil)
Pond, was born in Marysville, Calif., March 24, 1866. He
was prepared for college at Trinity School, San Francisco.

After graduation he engaged in the canned salmon busi-
ness in Alaska, but in June, 1890, entered his father's firm of
C. E. Whitney & Co., dealers in provisions and fish in San
Francisco. This firm was later consolidated with Wheaton?
Breon & Co., forming the firm of Wheaton, Pond & Harold,
Incorporated, in that city. He afterward went to Hongkong,
China, and became a member of the exporting and import-
ing firm of A. B. Maulder & Co. He died at sea August
9, I9J3> on his way from China to the United States. He
was 47 years of age.

He married at St. Luke's Church, San Francisco, Febru-
ary 3, 1896, Isabelle, daughter of Charles Watson and Isa-
belle Grant. She survives him with two sons.

1889

William Pope Aiken, youngest of the four children of
Rev. William Pope Aiken (B.A. Yale 1853), was born Feb-
ruary 1, 1866, at Newington, Conn., where his father was
pastor of the Congregational Church. His mother was
Susan Curtis (Edgerton) Aiken, daughter of Hon. Edwin
Edgerton of Rutland, Vt. His father died in Rutland,
March, 1884, and he entered college from that city. He
was for a short time a member of the Class of 1888 but
suffered from ill health and joined the Class of 1889 in
Sophomore year, graduating with an oration stand.

In the autumn of 1891 he entered the Yale Law School,
and during his course was chairman of the first editorial

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board of the Yale Law Journal. He received the degree of
Bachelor of Laws in 1892, was for three months in an office
in Vermont and took an active part in the national Demo-
cratic campaign, and then spent several months on the
Behring Sea International Arbitration case in Washington,
D. C. He was admitted to the Vermont bar in November,
1892, and to the New York bar in March, 1894. In Febru-
ary, 1893, he went to New York City, and in 1896 or 1897
was abroad in the interest of some mine owners in the West.
Upon his return he was connected with the Statutory
Revision Committee in Albany, N. Y., but owing to the
strain on his nervous system he entered a sanatorium in
Burlington, Vt, in 1898, and in 1910 went to Brattleboro,
Vt, where he died December 15, 1913, in the 48th year of
his age. A brother graduated from the College in 1881.

He edited the chapter on Appeals in the Encyclopaedia of
Pleading and Practice, and other legal works.

1891

William Castle Rhodes, only son of Robert Russell
and Kate (Castle) Rhodes, was born July 5, 1869, in Cleve-
land, O. His maternal grandfather was William B. Castle,
a native of Vermont, and a pioneer iron merchant in Cleve-
land.

He was fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter,
N. H. While in college he rowed on the Freshman crew,
and for three years was a member of the University Foot-
ball team, being its captain in Senior year. After finishing
his course he returned in the fall for many years to coach
the football team.

After graduation he was associated with his father in
lake transportation and coal mining, and later in banking.
He was vice-president of the Peoples Savings Bank Co.,
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the Citizens Savings and Trust Co. He was also vice-presi-
dent of the Huron Road Hospital.

He died of Bright's disease at his home in Cleveland, Feb-
ruary 5, 1914, in the 45th year of his age.

He married in Chicago October 1, 1910, Myra, daughter
of Thomas and Mary (Brandon) Smith. She survives him.

1892

Percy Finlay, son of Colonel Luke William Finlay (B.A.
Yale 1856), and Cecelia (Carroll) Finlay, was born July
15, 1872, in Memphis, Tenn. He was fitted for college at
the Rolfe School in that city.

After graduation from the Academical Department with
a philosophical oration stand he entered the Law School.
He was chairman of the Yale Law Journal, and on finishing
his course received the degree of Bachelor of Laws with
honor in 1894.

Returning to Memphis he entered into partnership with
his father in the law firm of Finlay & Finlay. Since his
father's death in 1908, he had practiced alone. For the
last ten years he had been attorney for the Park Commis-
sion of his city. He was a leader in measures for civic
improvement.

Mr. Finlay died at his home in Memphis, September 14,
191 3, at the age of 41 years.

He married at Mobile, Ala., December 12, 1899, Amante
Electra, daughter of Hon. Oliver John Semmes, for many
years judge of the Mobile city court. She survives him with
two daughters and a son.

1893

Thomas Augustus Gardiner, son of Thomas Augustus
Gardiner, treasurer of Kings County, N. Y., and Elizabeth
T. Gardiner, was born January 8, 187 1, in Brooklyn, N. Y.,

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and was fitted for college at the Polytechnic Institute of
Brooklyn.

After graduation he was at first with Been & Sampson,
stock brokers, and then with Redmond, Kerr & Co., bankers,
in New York City, and was admitted to partnership Jan-
uary 1, 1898, at the same time entering the Philadelphia
banking house of Graham, Kerr & Co. July 1, 1904, he
withdrew from these firms and was thereafter a member
of the banking firm of Plympton, Gardiner & Co. in New
York City.

On account of an attack of tuberculosis several years ago
he spent a year at Saranac Lake, N. Y., and was then able
to resume active business. The trouble recurred in the fall
of 191 2 and he returned to Saranac Lake, where he remained
continually until his death, which occurred October 30, 1913.
He was in his 43d year and unmarried. His home was at
Mamaroneck, N. Y.

1895

Ralph Houghton Burns, son of Frank William and
Annie Louise (Houghton) Burns, was born February 23,
1873, at Rutland, 111. He was prepared for college at Phil-
lips Academy, Exeter, N. H.

His father was a native of Milton, N. H., engaged in
the flour milling business, first at Rutland, 111., and from
1875 to x^94 was president of the Plymouth Roller Mill
Co. at Le Mars, la.

While in College he won special honors in history. After
graduation he was at first for a few months only in the grain
business in Minneapolis, and then for ten years in public
school work most of the time superintendent of schools at
Bathgate, N. D., Renville, Minn., and at St. James, Minn.
After study in the office of W. S. Hammond he was admitted
to the bar January 1, 1905, and since June of that year had
practiced law, for two years with Wesley Sherman Foster

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(B.L. Univ. Minn. 1896), under the firm name of Foster &
Burns, at Milaca, Minn., from 1907 to 191 1 with Hon. Win-
field Scott Hammond (B.A. Dartmouth 1884), in the firm of
Hammond & Burns, at St. James, Minn., and during the
last two years at Ashland, Ore., where he was city attorney.

Mr. Burns died in sleep of uraemia at Ashland, June 30,
1913, at the age of 40 years. The burial was in Ashland.

He married at Wasioja, Minn., July 5, 1899, Grace
Sperry, a student of Hamline College, daughter of Anson
M. Sperry, at one time state superintendent of public
schools. She survives him with two daughters. Two
brothers who graduated from the Academical Department
in 1900 and 1904, respectively, also survive him.

Charles Bolmer Cheyney, son of Rufus T. Cheyney,
of the Navy Department in Washington, D. C, was born in
that city January 14, 1873. His mother was Lucie Marie
(Bolmer) Cheyney. He was prepared for college at the
Washington High School.

After graduation from College he took the law course in
Columbian (George Washington) University, from which
he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1896. For
more than a year following he was ill, but in 1897 and 1898
he was in the office of Hon. Frank W. Hackett (B.A. Har-
vard 1861), afterward Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
and was admitted to the bar in 1898. He received the
degree of Master of Arts from Yale in 1904 for work in
economics.

He enlisted in the United States Navy in the Spanish-
American War and was honorably discharged in July, 1899.
The next year he was placed in the civil service by execu-
tive order, and since then had been recorder of the United
States Naval Examining Board at Washington.

Mr. Cheyney died of acute indigestion at his home in
Washington, June 6, 191 3, at the age of 40 years.

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He married, November 23, 1909, at Great Barrington,
Mass., Lillia Leveridge Sanderson, daughter of Charles
Leveridge and Lucy (Street) Sanderson, then of Brooklyn,
N. Y., who survives him. He was buried at Cheyney, Pa.

Francis John Harris, only son of John Henry Harris,
who was for many years manager of the New York office
of the George F. Blake Co., and then with the Worthington
Pumping Engine Co. in London, England, was born July
5, 1870, at Passaic, N. J. His mother was Fanny (Sea-
mons) Harris, daughter of Otis Arnold and Emelia
(Steele) Seamons of Springfield, Mass. After extensive
foreign travel he was fitted for college under a private
tutor in London, and entered as a resident of New York
City, for two years being a member of the Class of 1894.

After graduation he was for some time with the Colonial
Trust Co. in New York City and later with the Henry R.
Worthington Co., Incorporated. Since then he had been
manager for James Beggs & Co., dealers in machinery, in
New York City, taking special interest in the development
of its filter department.

He died of pleuro-pneumonia at his home in New York
City, January 26, 1914, in the 44th year of his age. The
interment was in Springfield, Mass.

He married in New York City, in November, 1903, Agnes
Osborne, who survives him. They had no children. His
mother and two sisters are also living.

Isaac M. Jordan, son of Isaac M. Jordan (B.A. Miami
1857) and Elizabeth (Phelps) Jordan, was born December
22, 1872, at Clifton, Cincinnati, O. His father was a law-
yer in that city from i860 to 1890, Democratic presidential
elector in 1872, and member of Congress from 1883 to
1885. The son was prepared for college at the Franklin
High School, Cincinnati.

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After graduation he spent three years in the law offices
of Harmon, Colton, Goldsmith & Hoadley, and at the same
time studied law in the University of Cincinnati, receiving
the degree of Bachelor of Laws there in 1897. In 1898
he became connected in practice with Joseph W. O'Hara,
and the following year formed a partnership with him,
under the name of O'Hara & Jordan, which continued till
January, 1907, when he removed to Chicago, 111. There
he was associated in practice with William Wirt Gurley
(B.A. Ohio Wesleyan Univ. 1870), and later was a member
of the firm of Heyman, Walker & Jordan.

He married in Chicago, February 23, 1903, Kathryn,
daughter of Hon. Peter S. Grosscup (B.A. Wittenberg
Coll. 1872), judge in the United States Circuit Court of
Appeals from 1899 to 191 1, and Virginia (Taylor) Jordan.
She was divorced from him in March, 19 13. While in a
despondent mood Mr. Jordan died by his own hand at the
Palmer House, Chicago, January 14, 19 14. He was in his
42d year. Mrs. Jordan and their daughter are living.

John Reed Williams, son of John Williams, a native
of Wales and capitalist of Chicago, 111., was born in that
city June 29, 1871. His mother was Nony (Reed) Wil-
liams, a native of Marion, O., but a resident of Deerfield,
Mass., before her marriage. He was fitted for college at
the Harvard School in Chicago and Phillips (Andover)
Academy.

After graduation he entered the Harvard Law School,
from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws
in 1898. He was admitted to the Cook County (111.) bar
the same year, and practiced a short time in the firm of
Bayley & Webster, in Chicago. Since about 1904 he had
been in the fire insurance business there with his brother
(Ph.B. Yale 1896) in the firm of Williams & Williams.

Mr. Williams had been operated on for mastoiditis, but
meningitis developed, of which he died at St. Luke's Hos-

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pital, Chicago, January 21, 19 14, in the 43d year of his
age. The burial was at Lake Geneva, Wise., near Chicago.
He married October 25, 1904, at Louisville, Ky., Eliza-
beth, daughter of Joseph W. and Maria C. (Watson)
Lindsey, who survives him. She has established a scholar-
ship in Yale College in memory of her husband.

1897

James Putnam Sawyer, son of Henry A. and Julia Anne
(Putnam) Sawyer, was born March 31, 1873, in Rutland,
Vt. He was prepared for college at Phillips Academy,
Andover, Mass. While in college he was chairman of the
board of editors of the Yale Record, manager of the
University Glee and Banjo Clubs, and one of the editors
of the Pot-Pourri.

After graduation he engaged with a cousin in the whole-
sale paper and wooden ware business established by his
father in 1872 in Rutland, as a member of the firm of H. A.
Sawyer & Co. He took an active interest in public affairs,
and had just been elected a member of the Board of
Education. He was a member of the Congregational
Church.

Mr. Sawyer died at St. Mark's Hospital, New York City,
April 21, 1914, after an operation for appendicitis. He was
41 years of age.

He married at Hoosick Falls, N. Y., October 5, 1907,
Helen Bradford Webb, daughter of Arthur Bradford
Webb, of Chicago, 111., and Frances (Sickles) Webb. She
survives him with a son and daughter.

Robb dePeyster Tytus, son of Edward Jefferson
Tytus (B.A. Yale 1868), was born February 2, 1876, in
Asheville, N. C. His mother was Charlotte Mathilde
Davies, daughter of John M. Davies, of New Haven. His
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by legislative act in his ninth year. After his father's
death in 1881 he lived much in New Haven. He was
prepared for college at St. Mark's School, Southboro, Mass.

After graduation he spent several years abroad, studying
art in London, Paris, and Munich, and from 1899 to 1903
conducting excavations under concessions from the Egyp-
tian government. He published a "Preliminary Report
on the Reexcavation of the Palace of Amenhotep III,"
illustrated by himself in color, New York, 1903; a poem,
"The Vow," also "On the Nile" (the latter in collabora-
tion with Mrs. Tytus and illustrated), both in Harper's
Monthly, 1904; both text and illustrations in color for
"Saida," a serial story in the Burr Mcintosh Monthly; and
"The River God," a story in the Metropolitan Magazine;
also illustrations for Mrs. Tytus's story, "Third Edition,"
in the Century, 1906.

Upon his return from abroad in 1903 he purchased a
large tract of land in Tyringham, Mass., where he engaged
in raising cattle and sheep and in practical farming. He
took a deep interest in the affairs of the town, and in 1908
and 1909 he was elected a representative in the Massachu-
setts Legislature. He was a director of the Lee National
Bank, and the Lee Hotel Company, and was a vestryman
of St. George's Church in Lee. He received the degree
of Master of Arts from Yale in 1903.

Mr. Tytus died of pulmonary tuberculosis at Saranac
Lake, N. Y., August 14, 1913, at the age of 37 years.

He married, in New York City, May 19, 1903, Grace
Seely Henop, daughter of Louis P. and Alice (Seely)
Henop, who survives him with two daughters. His mother
is also living. He was a cousin of his classmate John
Butler Tytus.

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Henry Cotheal Andrews, only son of James Watson
and Laura Hoppock (Cotheal) Andrews, was born at Fish-
kill, N. Y., June 5, 1877. He was fitted for college by
private tutors and at the Cazenovia (N. Y.) Seminary.

While in college he took two-year honors in history, and
after graduation spent two years in the study of history
in the Graduate School, holding the Clark Scholarship a
year and during 1900-01 acting also as Assistant in History.
Upon receiving the degree of Master of Arts in 1901 he
entered the Law School, from which he graduated in 1904.

After spending a short time in New York City he began
the general practice of his profession in Jacksonville, Fla.,
associated with Hon. Duncan U. Fletcher (B.S. Vanderbilt
1880), United States Senator. He also taught in the
Florida Law School, of which he was one of the incorpora-
tors.

About 1906" his health broke down, and he never fully
regained his strength, although he did legal work for the
Interborough Rapid Transit Co. of New York in 1910. He
died of paralysis at Fishkill, January 16, 19 14, in the 37th
year of his age.

He married in Albany, Ga., July 9, 1907, Caroline, daugh-
ter of John and Eliza (Wolfe) Consart, who died February
26, six weeks after Mr. Andrews's death. Three daughters
survive them.

Francis Jenks Hall, son of Dr. Joseph Everett Hall
(M.D. Jefferson Med. Coll. 1869) and Frances Irene
(Jenks) Hall, was born at Parker, Pa., November 18, 1877.
He was fitted for college at the Kiskiminitas. School, Salts-
burg, Pa., and entered college as a resident of Brookville,
Pa.

The winter following graduation he taught in the Kis-
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where he assisted his father in his drug business and medi-
cal practice at Catskanie. While there he took up a timber
claim, for which he afterward received money enabling
him to continue his studies. In 1901 he entered Johns Hop-
kins Medical School, and received the degree of Doctor of
Medicine in 1905. After substituting a month as interne in
Johns Hopkins Hospital, he was resident in the Methodist
Episcopal Hospital of Philadelphia until June, 1906. The
following September he sailed for China as a medical mis-
sionary under the Presbyterian Board, and since then had
been Professor of Medicine in the Lockhart Union Medi-
cal College in Peking. He had recently been elected Dean
of the College. He had acquired an unusually good knowl-
edge of the language, and was devoting his spare time to
revising a translation of Osier's Medicine, and collaborat-
ing on an English-Chinese Medical Dictionary. He was
also engaged in a lecture campaign against tuberculosis.

In the spring of 191 3 North China was visited by a
scourge of typhus fever, and Dr. Hall, after four weeks of
contact with the disease, fell a victim, dying at Peking, May
26, 191 3, after an illness of twelve days. He was in his
36th year.

He married at Chefoo, China, March 25, 1908, Anna
(B.A. Goucher College 1899), daughter of William E.
Hoffman, a lawyer of Baltimore, and Annie V. (Flack)
Hoffman. She survives him with two daughters.

Huntington Mason, son of Edward Gay Mason, LL.D.
(B.A. Yale i860), and Julia Martha (Starkweather)
Mason, was born March 19, 1875, in Chicago, 111. His
father was a lawyer, and from 1891 until his death in 1898
Alumni Fellow of the University. He was prepared for
college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

In college he won prizes in English and Latin composi-
tion, was an editor of the Record, Literary Magazine, and
Pot Pourri, and graduated with an Oration stand. He

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inherited much of his father's taste and gifts in archaeology
and literature, but did not pursue those lines. For two
years after graduation he was engaged in private tutoring,
then in banking, and later devoted himself to the publishing
business, but was more recently a broker in investment
securities.

He died of pneumonia at his home in Chicago, May 25,
191 4, at the age of 39 years.

He married in Chicago in 1907, Mrs. Gertrude Marion
Sutherland, who survives him with a daughter by her
earlier marriage.

Mr. Mason was one of thirteen children, and eight of his
nine brothers have graduated from Yale College in 1889,
1892, 1895, 1898, 1901, 1902, 1904, and 1909, respectively.
The other brother was a former member of the Class of
1907. An uncle graduated in 1870, and another uncle in
1871.

1900

Allister MacDonald Bell, son of James and Ellen
(Strother) Bell, was born December 19, 1876, in Orange,
N. J. His father was a native of Perth, Scotland, and his
mother of Leeds, England. He was prepared for college
at the Newark (N. J.) Academy.

After graduation from college he entered the College of
Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, receiving the
degree of Doctor of Medicine from Columbia University
in 1904. He remained in New York and in 1906 he was
assistant physician at St. Vincent's Hospital Clinic, and the
following year assistant attending physician at the St. Law-
rence and Fordham Hospitals. In 1908 he resigned his
position at St. Lawrence Hospital and became medical chief
of St. Vincent's Clinic, assistant physician and pathologist
at Fordham Hospital, and Instructor in Pathology at the
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648 YALE COLLEGE

Professor of Histology at the Medical School of Fordham
University.

While on leave of ^absence in 1910 he was assistant resi-
dent physician at the Stony Wold Sanatorium at Lake
Kushaqua, N. Y., and the next year established a private
sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis, at Tupper
Lake, N. Y. He then became the head physician at the
Vermont State Sanatorium at Pittsford, Vt, but died at
Caldwell, N. J., January 28, 1914. He was not married,
and was in his 38th year. His mother and two sisters
survive him.

John Herbert Campbell, son of John Felix and Sarah
Jane (Perine) Campbell, was born March n, 1877, m
Orange, N. J., where he was prepared for college in the
High School.

May 17, 1898, in Sophomore year he enlisted in Company
F, First Connecticut Volunteers in the Spanish-American
War and was in camp at Niantic, Conn., South Portland,
Me., and in Camp Alger at Falls Church, Va., until
mustered out of service November 1 of that year.

After graduation he was assistant stock keeper for the
Winchester Repeating Arms Co. in New Haven from 1900
to 1907, and since then assistant superintendent of H. C.
Rowe & Co., oyster dealers in Fair Haven, Conn.

He desired to enter the ministry, but ill health prevented.
He was a member of the official board of the Westville
Methodist Church, and president of the Men's Club, and
for a time choirmaster.

While bathing in the early morning in front of his shore
cottage at Silver Sands in East Haven Mr. Campbell was
drowned July 27, 1913. He was 36 years of age.

He married in New Haven, June 27, 1906, Bertha Maud,
daughter of John Robinson and Mary Louise (Anderson)
Brown, who survives him with a son and daughter.

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igoi

John Bullard Chamberlin, eldest son of Franklin
Alexander Chamberlin, a retired coal dealer, and Nellie
(Baldwin) Chamberlin, was born March 12, 1881, at
Unionville, Conn. He was fitted for college at the High
School there.

After graduation with a Philosophical Oration stand, he
tutored two years and studied in the Graduate School,
taking the degree of Master of Arts in 1902. He was then
with Sargent & Co., hardware manufacturers in New
Haven, two or three years, and later with the American
Pin Co. in Waterbury, Conn. In 1909 he engaged in rail-
road construction work in Canada, and was in the service
of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, in British Columbia,
where he died of pneumonia at Mile Post 114, June 23,
191 3. He was 32 years of age, and not married. His
brother Harry B. Chamberlin (B.A. Yale 1902), died
November 14, 1913, but two brothers (Ph.B. Yale 1907 and
1913, respectively), with his parents and two sisters, sur-
vive him. He was a member of the Dwight Place Congre-
gational Church in New Haven.

1902

Harry Baldwin Chamberlin, son of Franklin Alex-
ander and Nellie (Baldwin) Chamberlin, was born June
20, 1882, at Unionville, Conn., where he was prepared for
college at the High School.

After graduation he entered the employ of his uncle,
David Woodward, of the Woodward Lumber Co. in
Atlanta, Ga., and since 1907 had been secretary of the
company.

He died after an illness of two weeks from a complication
of diseases at Atlanta, November 14, 1913. He was 31
years of age.

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He married in Atlanta, June 2, 1909, Emma Bell DuBose,
daughter of Edwin Rembert DuBose (B.A. Emory College
l%77)y vice-president of the Chamberlin-Johnson-DuBose
Co., and Ella (Inman) DuBose, who survives him. Two
brothers (Ph.B. Yale 1907 and 191 3, respectively), and two
sisters, with his parents are also living. His brother, John
B. Chamberlin (B.A. Yale 1901), died the 23d of the
preceding June. He was a member of the Unionville Con-
gregational Church.

Howard George McDowell, son of George H. and
Elizabeth (Clute) McDowell, was born in Cohoes, N. Y.,
August 28, 1880, and was fitted for college at the Cas-
cadilla School, Ithaca, N. Y.

On graduation he entered business with his father's firm
of G. H. McDowell & Co., manufacturers of woolen under-
wear, and January 1, 1907, was admitted to partnership in
the firm. About three years later he suffered a severe attack
of pneumonia, following which he made a trip to Cuba
and California.

Mr. McDowell died of pleuro-pneumonia at his home in
Cohoes, April 28, 19 14, in the 34th year of his age.

He married in Albany, N. Y., October 22, 1906, Mar-
garet Laughlin Sutherland, daughter of Daniel M. Suther-
land. She survives him with a daughter. His brother and
classmate, John Clute McDowell, died November 18, 1903.

Jay Morse Pickands, son of Colonel James Pickands, of
Pickands, Mather & Co., iron merchants in Cleveland, O.,
was born February 21, 1880, in Marquette, Mich. His
mother was Caroline (Outhwaite) Pickands. In 1882 the
family moved to Cleveland, where he was fitted for college
at the University School.

After graduation he made a three months' European trip,
and then entered business with Pickands, Mather & Co.,

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being admitted as a junior partner in the firm in May, 191 1.
He was also a director of the First National Bank of
Cleveland, and of several manufacturing concerns.

While on an inspection trip of his firm's ore properties
in Michigan he was taken with appendicitis, and died after
an operation in Cleveland, November 18, 191 3, in his 34th
year. He was buried in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland.

He married, January 7, 1903, Alice M., daughter of
Josiah G. Reynolds, of the DuPont Powder Co., of Mar-
quette, Mich., and Jeannie (Kennedy) Reynolds. She sur-
vives him with a daughter. A brother graduated from the
Sheffield Scientific School in 1897.

Laurance Blanchard Rand, son of George Curtis and
Eugenia Isabel (Blanchard) Rand, was born February 13,
1 88 1, in New York City. He was prepared for college at
the Pomfret School, Pomf ret, Conn.

After graduation he spent the summer abroad, and on
his return in September, went into the banking business
with Baring, Magoun & Co. in New York City. Three
years later he became associated in the real estate and bank-
ing business with his classmate and brother-in-law, Payson
McL. Merrill, and continued in this connection until ill
health compelled him to give up active work.

After an illness of nine months from a complication of
diseases Mr. Rand died at his home in Cedarhurst, Long
Island, N. Y., February 4, 1914, in the 33d year of his age.
He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

He married in New York City July 2, 1907, Kate Stanton
Richardson, daughter of Samuel William Richardson, who
survives him with a son. He also leaves three brothers,
two of whom graduated from College in 191 1 and 191 2
respectively, and the other was non-graduate member of
the Class of 1909.

652 YALE COLLEGE

1903

Arsene LeSeigneur Trenholm was born November 21,
1880, in Charleston, S. C. His father, William Lee Tren-
holm (B.A. South Carolina Coll. 1855), was Russian and
Italian consul in Charleston, comptroller of the currency
during President Cleveland's first administration, then a
banker in New York. His mother was Katherine Louise,
daughter of James Macbeth, a Charleston banker. He was
prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.

In December following graduation he entered the service
of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, in New
Jersey, at first at Secaucus, then at Newark, and later at
Hoboken and Dover, and continued in this work until
191 1. He then resigned to take up the management of a
large tract of land belonging to his family near Seivern,
in Aiken County, S. C.

He died of pneumonia at his plantation "Chalk Hill,"
Seivern, March 5, 1914, at the age of 33 years. He was
not married.

1908

Reginald Woodward Catlin, son of Dr. Arnold Welles
Catlin (B.A. Yale 1862) and Elizabeth Leverett (Wood-
ward) Catlin, was born July 4, 1886, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
He was prepared for college at Adelphi Academy in that
city. While in college he was greatly interested in
swimming, and in Senior year was a member of the
University Swimming Team.

After graduation he studied architecture for a year in
Columbia University, after which he worked as a draftsman
for a time, but in the autumn of 1909 he entered the General
Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church
in New York City. In December, 191 1, he was ordained
to the priesthood, and engaged in missionary work at Twin

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Falls, Idaho, until January, 191 3, when he left there on
account of ill health. He was later curate of St. Mary's
Church, Tuxedo Park, N. Y., and also had charge of St.
Luke's Chapel at Sterlington, nearby.

Mr. Catlin died of leukemia at his home in Brooklyn,
March 2, 1914, in the 28th year of his age.

He married at St. James Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., June
It, 191 3, Bertha, daughter of Henry E. and Jennie (Good-
win) Chapman, who survives him. His father and a sister
are also living. The burial was at Greenwood Cemetery.

His grandfather, Charles T. Catlin, graduated from Yale
College in 1822, and his great-grandfather, Lynde Catlin,
in 1786. Three of his father's brothers also graduated
from the College, respectively in 1853, 1856, and 1859.

1909

John Bates Perrin, son of John Orlando Perrin
(B.A. Yale 1879) and Ellenor (Bates) Perrin, was born
January 16, 1887, in Lafayette, Ind. His preparatory
course was divided between the University School in Cleve-
land, O., St. Paul's School at Concord, N. H., and Phillips
(Andover) Academy.

He won a Philosophical Oration at graduation, and had
also been captain of the Sophomore Tennis Team, chairman
of the Junior Promenade Committee, and president of the
University Boat Club.

After graduation he became clerk in the American
National Bank of Indianapolis, of which his father was
then president, but his health failing in 1910, his family
removed at once to California. Part of the time thereafter
he spent in Arizona and the remainder in California, where
he died at Pasadena, October 29, 1913, in the 27th year
of his age. He was buried at Indianapolis. A brother
graduated from the College in 1907.

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igio

Erford Whitcomb Chesley, son of Roderick Erford
and Annetta Francelia (Lamb) Chesley, was born Decem-
ber 12, 1886, in North Brookfield, Mass., and was prepared
for college in the High School in that place. After
having taken the mechanical engineering course in the
Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute and graduated
there in 1908, he joined his class in Yale at the beginning
of Junior year.

After graduation he entered the service of the Beebe &
Richards Rubber Co. in Worcester, Mass., of which he
became chief chemist.

Mr. Chesley died after an illness of ten days from
Landry's ascending paraylsis, at the Worcester Memorial
Hospital, July 2J} 19 13, in the 27th year of his age. His
mother survives him.

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1853

Charles Edwin Sanford, son of Eliada Sanford, a mer-
chant tailor living in North Haven, Conn., until 1870, and
then in Plainville, Conn., was born in North Haven, May
31, 1830. His mother was Maria (Abbott) Sanford, a
lineal descendant of Abraham Pierson, the first President
(Rector) of Yale College. He was prepared for college
in the private school of Rev. Ammi Linsley (B.A. Yale
1810) in North Haven, and the West Meriden High School,
but on account of trouble with his eyes, he was obliged to
give up study for several years.

After graduation from the Medical School, he began
practice with Dr. George Anson Moody (M.D. Yale 1844),
in Plainville, Conn. During a sojourn in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
in 1856, he took up the study of homeopathy, which he
adopted almost in its entirety. For a time he practiced in
Bristol, Conn., but in August, 1859, settled in Bridgeport,
where he did his life work. He was greatly interested in
experiments in hypnotism and animal magnetism, and gath-
ered an extensive library on such subjects. He devoted
special attention to the subject of sleeping, and had prepared
a practical little volume on the subject which was nearly
ready for the press. He was for many years president of
the Bridgeport Board of Health, and always active for the
city's welfare. In 1901, he was chosen to deliver the public
eulogy on President McKinley.

In 1871, also in 1901, he was president of the State
Homeopathic Society of Connecticut, and was a member
of the American Institute of Homeopathy.

He remained in active practice until he was stricken with
apoplexy, from which he died after a few weeks' illness
at his home in Bridgeport, April 26, 1914, in the 84th year

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of his age. He was a deacon of the South Congregational
Church.

Dr. Sanford married in Plainville, Conn., October 26,
1855, Annie Fuller, daughter of Jeremiah Neale, and had
two sons and two daughters, of whom a son and a daugh-
ter with Mrs. Sanford survive him.

1857

Ezra Smith, son of Jesse D. and Lucinda (Sanford)
Smith, was born January 2, 1836, at Willseyville, a village
in Candor township, Tioga County, N. Y. He attended
the Alfred Academy, and studied medicine a year and a
half with Dr. Sutherland in Candor, before coming to New
Haven.

After graduation from the Yale Medical School he had
an office in Fair Haven, Conn., until 1861, and then spent
four years in Candor, where he lost all his property through
litigation.

In 1868 he went to Michigan, and practiced in Hazelton
township, Shiawasee County, until 1877, and then until 1885
in Flushing, Genesee County. The hard riding in severe
weather over a large circuit brought on ill health, and he
engaged in the drug business for three years. After this
he resumed practice in Hazelton, residing, as previously,
in the village of Judd's Corners. He retired about 1908.
He was a trustee of the Methodist Church.

Dr. Smith died of diabetes at Judd's Corners, December
21, 1913, in the 78th year of his age.

He married, October 24, 1872, Emma Eliza, widow of
Lyman Perry, and daughter of Moses and Elizabeth (Bes-
sey) Fuller of Vermont. She died in 1902, but a sister in
Los Angeles, Calif., survives him.

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i86i

Horace Philo Porter, son of Philo and Clarissa Bar-
bour (Skinner) Porter, was born February 6, 1839, at
Ellington, Conn. He attended the National Medical College
in Washington, D. C, in 1858-59, and took his final year
in the Yale Medical School.

On August 27, 1 86 1, the month following his graduation,
he enlisted as assistant surgeon in the Seventh Regiment,
Connecticut Volunteers, of which Major Francis Bacon
(M.D. Yale 1853) was surgeon, and in May, 1862, was made
surgeon in the Tenth Regiment. He was for a time in
charge of the hospital at Beaufort, S. C, and was fre-
quently detached on important service. Twice he was act-
ing assistant surgeon of the United States Army. He was
mustered out November 5, 1864. Dr. Porter afterward
practiced at Oneida, Nemaha County, Kans., five years, and
was vice-president of the Northern Kansas Medical Society.
He was afterward at Port Arthur, Texas, where he was
health physician two terms. He was also president of the
Chamber of Commerce there, and a trustee of the First
Congregational Church.

Dr. Porter died from the effects of his army service at
his home in Butler, Mo., December 23, 1912, in the 74th
year of his age.

He married, January 27, 1861, Margaret Smith Blakeslee,
of New Haven, daughter of Willis and Nancy (Benjamin)
Blakeslee, and had three daughters, who survive him.

1862

Robert Grey Hassard, son of Rev. Samuel Hassard
(B.A. Yale 1826) and Sarah G. (Cook) Hassard, was born
May 23, 1 841, in Great Barrington, Mass., where his father
was then rector of St. James' Church. Upon the death of
his father in 1847 ms mother removed to New Haven,

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Conn., and he was later sent to Cheshire Academy, from
which he entered the Medical School.

Before finishing his medical studies, in April, 1861, he
enlisted for three months in Company D, First Regiment of
Volunteers of Connecticut. In 1862 he again enlisted in
the Nineteenth Connecticut Infantry, which later became
the Second Heavy Artillery. He was mustered in as
assistant surgeon January 1, 1863, and served till August,
1865, being in many battles.

He then returned to New Haven, but the following year
went to Bridgeport, whence after a year's practice he went
West and spent two years. He was later in Brooklyn,
N. Y., and Sayville, Long Island, N. Y., till 1880, after-
ward practicing in Harwinton, Conn., and since 1885 in
Thomaston, Conn., where he was health officer for nearly
thirteen years. He was a member of Trinity Protestant
Episcopal Church in Thomaston.

After four years of failing health Dr. Hassard died of
pneumonia at his home in Thomaston, January 21, 1914,
in the 73d year of his age.

He married in Harwinton, Conn., June 9, 1881, Mary
Lela, daughter of Alanson Udell, a New York merchant.
She survives him.

1864

John Dutton Brundage was born January 17, 1835, at
Brookfield, Conn., the son of Alfred M. and Lucy Bradley
(Park) Brundage.

After graduating from the Medical School he at first
practiced his profession in Bridgewater, Conn., but in April,
1865, removed to "Goshen, where he spent eight years, and
later to Naugatuck. In 1878 he went to Minnesota, but
in 1884 came back to Connecticut and lived in Walling-
ford, then practiced twenty years in Westhampton, Long
Island, N. Y.

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He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frances R.
Wadhams, at Goshen, Conn., October 21, 191 3, in his 79th
year. He was buried in Roxbury, Conn.

Dr. Brundage married at Newtown, Conn., April 6,
1864, Delia Gertrude, daughter of Eli and Polly (Judd)
Higgins. She survives him with three daughters.

1865

William Anderson Mitchell, son of Josiah Sherman
Mitchell, a lawyer, and Elizabeth (Anderson) Mitchell, was
born December 13, 1842, at Harrison, N. Y. His great-
grandfather, Rev. Justus Mitchell (B.A. Yale 1776), was
for twenty-three years pastor at New Canaan, Conn., and
his maternal grandfather, Hon. Joseph H. Anderson, was
a member of Congress in 1843. He was prepared for col-
lege at White Plains, N. Y.

He received his Academic degree from Columbia Uni-
versity in 1863, but during the latter part of his course was
in the army. He served as a private in the Seventh Regi-
ment of New York, Second Company, in 1862 and 1863,
and as a medical cadet in 1864, and then entered the Yale
Medical School as a member of the Senior class, his resi-
dence being Brooklyn, N. Y.

After receiving his medical degree he practiced his pro-
fession about five years, but in 1870 became connected with
the Safe Deposit Co. of New York, of which he had been
second vice-president since July, 1906.

Dr. Mitchell died after a brief illness from arterioscle-
rosis at his home in Brooklyn, September 26, 1913, in the
71st year of his age.

He married in Philadelphia, Pa., June 7, 1866, Natalie
Madeleine, daughter of George Sayen, an importer, and
had three sons and two daughters, all of whom survive
him. Mrs. Mitchell died December 14, 1912.

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1871

Robert Lauder, son of Robert and Martha (King)
Lauder, was born May 4, 1840, in Glasgow, Scotland. He
was prepared for college at East Greenwich (R. I.) Semi-
nary. He was a member of the Class of 1867 m Wesleyan
University until Junior year, and in 1890 Wesleyan Uni-
versity gave him the honorary degree of Master of Arts.
During the Civil War he served nine months in the Eleventh
Rhode Island Volunteers. The year before entering the
Yale Medical School he was an insurance agent in Bridge-
port, Conn.

After graduation from the Medical School he practiced
his profession in Bridgeport until June, 1912, when he was
appointed surgeon of Fitch's Home for Soldiers at Noroton
Heights, Conn. In 1886 he studied at the Post-Graduate
Medical School in New York City. Since its establishment
in 1878 he had been a member of the staff of the Bridgeport
Hospital, serving for many years as gynecologist, and he
was attending physician of the Fairfield County Jail for
fifteen years. He was also fleet surgeon in the Bridgeport
and Sachem's Head Yacht clubs.

He was a member of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church in Bridgeport for over forty years, president of its
board of trustees for over twenty-five years, and was also
Sunday school superintendent and a Bible class teacher.
He was a lay delegate to the General Conference in 1890.

Dr. Lauder died of angina pectoris at Noroton Heights,
May 31, 1913, at the age of 73 years.

His first wife was Clara E. Sexton, who died in 1879,
and his second wife Jennie A. Paddock, who died in 1892.
He married, March 6, 1894, Mary Dora, daughter of Rev.
Joseph Pullman, D.D. (B.A. Wesleyan 1863), and Mary
Elizabeth (Cooke) Pullman. She survives him with a
daughter and son, also a son by his first marriage.

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1876

Laban Hartwell Johnson, son of Cyrus Shepherd and
Phoebe (Hartwell) Johnson, was born April 12, 1846, in
Wallingford, Conn. He gained his preparatory education
in the. Hartford (Conn.) High School. In June, 1862, he
enlisted in Company E, Connecticut Volunteer Cavalry,
in which he served as a private till the close of the Civil
War. After receiving his discharge he learned the trade
of a machinist and tool-maker at Colt's Armory, in Hart-
ford, and continued there until he entered the Medical
School.

After graduation he practiced his profession many years
in New York City, but since 1898 had lived on a ranch two
miles from Terryton, Finney County, Kans. In 1896 he
became totally blind, the cause being ascribed to exposure
while in prison at New Orleans during the war.

Dr. Johnson died of angina pectoris at his home near
Terryton, July 26, 191 3, at the age of 67 years. The inter-
ment was at Arlington, Va.

He married in Reading, Pa., November 26, 1879, Elenore
Naomi Ritter, who died November 24, 1900, leaving a
daughter. In December, 1901, he married in Chicago,
Lydia Alice, daughter of Christopher C. and Catharine W.
(Johnson) Stringfield. She survives him.

1888

Edward Charles Beach was born August 8, 1866, at
Seymour, Conn., where his father, Samuel A. Beach, was a
manufacturer. His mother was Mary Helen Beach. After
a course in the High School in Derby, Conn., he entered the
Medical School.

After graduation he spent a year in the Hartford Hos-
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he established a successful practice. For a number of years
he was the town physician of Milford.

He died of pneumonia at his home in Milford, June 2,
1913, in the 47th year of his age.

He married in Milford, April 26, 1893, Charlotte, daugh-
ter of John and Margaret Wade (Tibbals) Reynolds, who
survives him with a son and a daughter.

1893

Martial Adolph Scharton, son of Adolphus and
Sophia Scharton, was born in 1873 at Aarau, Switzerland.
He studied in the schools of Switzerland and Russia, and
then came to the United States. He entered the Medical
School from North Haven.

After graduation he practiced his profession at first in
New Haven, from 1901 to 1909 in Hartford, Conn., where
he was also police surgeon, and since then in Boston, Mass.,
where he was connected with the City Hospital.

His health had been failing for five years, and he died of
cancer in New York City, July 18, 1912. He was 39 years
of age, and not married. His mother, a sister, and five
brothers survive him.

1898

William Wright Markoe, son of Francis Hartman
Markoe and Emma Selina (Wright) Markoe, was born
September 9, 1874, in Utica, N. Y., but entered Yale
from Shelton, Conn. His mother died in January, 1900,
and his father in June, 1901.

After graduation from the Medical School he was in
Noroton, Conn., at the Soldiers' Home until July, 1900,
when he was appointed assistant surgeon in the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and for several years
afterward served aboard ships in Philippine and Alaskan
waters and along the western coast of the United States.

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While thus engaged he contracted tuberculosis of the lungs,
and in December, 1903, was ordered to the United States
Public Health Service Sanatorium at Fort Stanton, N. Mex.,
where he was a patient for four years, gradually improv-
ing. In December, 1907, he was transferred to the United
States Public Health Service and appointed assistant sur-
geon there at Fort Stanton.

While on sick leave in the North, Dr. Markoe died at the
home of his aunt, Mrs. E. D. Chase, in Charlestown, N. H.,
October 19, 19 13, at the age of 39 years. The interment
was in Utica, N. Y. He was a member of the Protestant
Episcopal Church.

He married in Kansas City, June 29, 1909, Julia, daugh-
ter of M. G. and Laura (Transon) Senter, who survives
him with a daughter, a son having died. A sister is living.

1903

Cleveland Ferris, son of Frederick Jay Ferris, a banker,
and Mary Elizabeth (Cleveland) Ferris, was born Decem-
ber 27, 1877, in Philadelphia, Pa. His father was a native
of Cincinnati, O., but later lived in New York City and
Brooklyn, and in 1894 resided in Peekskill, N. Y., where
the son attended the Peekskill Military Academy. He
finished his preparatory study at Phillips (Andover)
Academy.

After graduation from the Medical School he served in
Lincoln Hospital and the Lying-in Hospital in New York
City, was assistant in genito-urinary surgery in the New
York Polyclinic, and in the out-patient department of St.
Luke's Hospital. He restricted his practice to diseases of
the genital and urinary organs. He was a fellow of the
American Medical Association and the New York Academy
of Medicine.

Dr. Ferris died of blood poisoning at his home in New
York City, August 21, 1913, in the 36th year of his age.

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He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. He was a member
of the Dutch Reformed Church.

He married at Keene Valley, N. Y., September 2, 1909,
Clarissa B., daughter of Rollin H. Lynde, a lawyer of
New York City, and Elizabeth (Blaney) Lynde, who sur-
vives him with two daughters and a son.

1905

Charles Reed Pratt, only son of Charles and Harriet
E. (Reed) Pratt, was born February 9, 1880, in New
Haven, Conn. He was prepared for the Medical School at
the New Haven High School and worked his way through
his medical course.

After graduation he served a year as interne at the State
Hospital for the Insane in Middletown, Conn., after which
he was appointed to the resident staff of the Bridgeport,
(Conn.) Hospital. He then settled in practice in Bridge-
port, and in April, 1912, was appointed surgeon in the
Emergency Hospital. While on duty there he developed an
infection of the throat, from the results of which he died
at his home in Bridgeport, July 16, 1913, at the age of
33 years. He was buried in New Haven.

Outside of his profession his special interest and recrea-
tion was vocal and instrumental music.

He married in New York City, January 3, 191 2, Mar-
garet E., daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Long) Patter-
son, of Fredericton, in the province of New Brunswick,
Canada, who with his sister survives him.

1912

Forrest Glen Crowley, son of Robert E. and Margaret
(Carrothers) Crowley, was born March 24, 1880, at Galion,
O., where he finished the High School course. He gradu-
ated at the American School of Osteopathy at Kirkwood,

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Mo., before entering the Yale Medical School, in the
Second Year class.

After graduation he was interne in the New Haven Hos-
pital until April, 191 3, and the following September
returned to New Haven for further medical study, and
became house surgeon of St. Raphael's Hospital, New
Haven.

Dr. Crowley died October 8, 1913, at St. Raphael's Hos-
pital, after a day's illness and an operation for intestinal
trouble. He was 33 years of age. The interment was at
Galion, O.

He married, at Edwardsville, 111., July 12, 1904, Frances,
daughter of Sylvester B. and Margaret (Jordan) Tinkham,
who survives him with a son.

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1851

Charles Samuel Andrews, youngest of the four sons
and last survivor of the ten children of Ethan Allen
Andrews, LL.D. (B.A. Yale 1810) and Lucy (Cowles)
Andrews, was born August 5, 1823, at Chapel Hill, N. C,
where his father was then Professor of Languages in the
University of North Carolina. From 1828 to 1839 his
parents were in New Haven, Conn., and Boston, Mass., but
in the latter year his father returned to the paternal home-
stead in New Britain, Conn.

After graduation from the Law School he practiced his
profession in New York City for a time with his brother
Horace Andrews (B.A. Yale 1841), but since then had
lived in the Stanley Quarter of New Britain, in the home-
stead built by his grandfather, and devoted himself prin-
cipally to farming. He took an active interest in public
affairs, and in 1877, 1878, 1882, and 1883, was a Democratic
representative in the Connecticut legislature. For nearly
thirty years he was a member of the New Britain school
board, and for twenty years was a member of the board
of assessors.

Mr. Andrews died at his home in New Britain October
7, 1913, in the 91st year of his age. He was a member of
the First Congregational Church in New Britain.

He married, September 16, 1857, Elizabeth A., daughter
of Zephaniah and Olive (Childs) Alden, of West Hartford,
Conn., and had one daughter and four sons. Mrs. Andrews
died in 1892, and the youngest son in October, 1912.

His elder brother, a member of the Class of 1833 in Yale
College, died in his Freshman year. A sister married
Archelaus Wilson (B.A. Yale 1844) and two other sisters
married successively Professor Edward Dromgoole Sims
(B.A. Univ. N. C. 1824).

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1859

Richard Zina Johnson, son of Hon. Harvey Hull
Johnson and Calista F. (Munger) Johnson, was born May
21, 1837, in Akron, O., but came to the Law School from
Winona, Wise. He attended the United States Military
Academy at West Point before entering the Law School.
His parents were both natives of Rutland, Vt. His father
was an attorney at law, the first mayor and postmaster of
Akron, Ohio, representative in Congress in 1853-55, and
later settled in Idaho.

After graduating from the Law School he went to Min-
nesota and was there admitted to the bar, and in 1869 went
to Idaho, where he at first settled in Silver City but in 1878
removed to Boise. There since July, 1892, he had been
in partnership with his son as the senior member of the
law firm of Johnson & Johnson, having a large mining and
corporation practice. He held many public positions. He
was a member of the Territorial Commission from 1880 to
1882, and from 1881 to 1896 was a member of the Board
of Education of Boise, of which he was chairman for many
years. From 1889 to 1895 he was also president of the
Board of Regents of Idaho State University. He was
attorney-general of Idaho from 1886 to 1890, a member of
the Idaho Code Commission in 1887, and a member of the
Idaho Board of Capitol Commissioners from 1889 to 1891.
From 1896 to 1900 he was president of the Idaho State Bar
Association. He was a Democrat in politics. He received
the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University
of Idaho in 1894.

During recent years he had traveled extensively, and
spent much time at his summer home at Wasserburg,
Bavaria, on Lake Constance.

Dr. Johnson died of paralysis at Wasserberg, Bavaria,
September 10, 1913, at the age of j6 years. He was a
member of the Presbyterian Church.

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He married in 1869, Kathrina, daughter of Zacharius
and Anna Broeg, of Lindau, Bavaria. She survives him
with their son (LL.B. Yale 1892).

1866

Andrew Clark Lippitt, son of Hon. Andrew Clark
Lippitt (B.A. Amherst 1837) and Lois Emeline (Cobb)
Lippitt, was born September 9, 1844, in New London, Conn.
His father was a member of the State Legislature in 1844,
and mayor of New London from 1850 to 1853.

After graduation he settled in the practice of his pro-
fession in his native city. He was judge of the Police
Court in 1877, and a member of the Connecticut Legisla-
ture in 1878. Succeeding his father, he was president of
the New London Gas Light Co., but in 1893 ownership
of the company passed to the New London Gas & Electric
Co. Since then he had practiced law until his retirement.

Judge Lippitt died at his home in New London from
chronic nephritis, February 24, 191 3, in the 69th year of
his age.

His first wife, Edna K., daughter of Andrew and Honora
Harrington, died in November, 1879. In December,
1880, he married Mary, daughter of Dennis Martin and
Katherine (Kane) Enwright, who survives him. He had
no children by either marriage.

1872

Henry Gleason Newton, only son of Gaylord and
Nancy Maria (Merwin) Newton, was born June 5, 1843,
in Durham, Conn. He was named after Rev. Henry
Gleason (B.A. Yale 1828), the pastor of the Congregational
Church in Durham by whom his parents were married. He
entered Wesleyan University in 1861, but his health soon
failed and in 1862 he taught the South School in Durham.

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The following year he resumed college work, but again
his health failed, and in 1865 and 1866 he taught the South
School in North ford. In 1867 he again returned to Wes-
leyan, from which he graduated in 1870. In 1873 he also
received from Wesleyan University the degree of Master
of Arts.

On his graduation from college, he entered the Yale Law
School and in his Senior year there won the Jewell and
Chittenden prizes. Since receiving his law degree he had
practiced his profession in New Haven. From 1894 to
1896 the firm was Newton & Wells (P. P. Wells, B.A. Yale
1889), and since 1899, Ward Church (LL.B. Yale 1899)
and Harrison Hewitt (B.A. Yale 1897) had been in part-
nership with him in the firm of Newton, Church & Hewitt.
He was recognized as an authority on probate and bank-
ruptcy law, and since 1898 had held the office of United
States referee in bankruptcy for New Haven County.

He continued to reside in Durham until 1885, was for
ten years school visitor there, and had been attorney for the
town most of the time since his admission to the bar. In
1885 he was a member of the Connecticut House of Repre-
sentatives, when he was chairman of the judiciary com-
mittee and the next term was declared elected by one vote.
Believing that there had been a miscount in the latter case,
he contested his own election as attorney for his competitor
and unseated himself. In 1894 he was elected to the House
of Representatives from New Haven, and was chairman
of the committee on humane institutions. For six years
he was a member of the State Board of Health.

He was a director of Grace Hospital in New Haven,
was one of the incorporators of the City Missionary Asso-
ciation and had been chairman of its board of directors
for many years, and was for years a director of the Young
Men's Christian Association and a trustee. For a number
of years he was a director of the Yale National Bank and
its attorney, and from 1907 to 1909 president of the People's

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Bank and Trust Co. In 1886 he was chosen a trustee of
the Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank of Middletown,
Conn., and became the senior member of the board, was a
director and treasurer of the Merriam Manufacturing Co.
of Durham, and a director and member of the executive
committee of C. Cowles & Co. of New Haven.

For nearly thirty years he had been active in the work
of the College Street Congregational Church and Plymouth
Church, its successor, and long taught a Bible class. In
1889 he was president of the Congregational Club of New
Haven.

He wrote the section on probate law in the "Connecticut
Civil Offices," the article on bankruptcy in the Encyclo-
paedia Britannica, other legal articles, and the History of
Durham in the "History of Middlesex County." At the
Durham Bicentennial July 4, 1889, he was president of the
day.

Mr. Newton died suddenly of heart trouble at his home
in New Haven, March 21, 1914, in the 71st year of his age.

He married, September 11, 1885, Sarah Allen Baldwin
(M.D. New York College and Hospital for Women 1885),
daughter of Isaac Stebbins Baldwin of Cromwell, Conn.,
who survives him. They had no children.

1876

Eljen Kossuth Wilcox, son of Curtis C. and Sarah
Ann Wilcox, was born in Akron, O., September 15, 1849.

After study in the public schools in Knoxville, Tenn., he
became an attorney at law in that city. He was a member
of the Yale Law School during Senior year.

After graduation he practiced his profession in Cleveland,
O., in 1878, becoming senior member of the firm of Wilcox
& Friend. In 1902 he entered public life as assistant to
Newton D. Baker (B.A. Johns Hopkins 1892), who was
then city solicitor. When Mr. Baker was elected mayor

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in 19 1 2 Mr. Wilcox was elected to succeed him as solicitor.
Later under a new charter he was appointed director of
law and was ex officio mayor.

He died of pneumonia at his home in Cleveland February
3, 1914, at the age of 64 years. He was a member of
St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church. The burial was
in Akron.

He married in Cleveland, March 9, 1876, Mary, daughter
of John and Frances V. (Drake) Rigg, who died four days
after Mr. Wilcox. A brother is living.

1881

Allan Wallace Paige, son of John Odel Paige, a
farmer and county commissioner, and Cornelia (Joyce)
Paige, was born at Sherman, Conn., February 2, 1854. His
preparatory studies were taken in New Haven at the Col-
legiate and Commercial Institute of General Russell (B.A.
Yale 1833), with a year at the Hopkins Grammar School.

After graduation from the Law School he was admitted
to practice in the Connecticut and United States courts.
Until 1883 he lived in Sherman, which he represented in
the State Legislature in 1882. The following year he
removed to Danbury, and was assistant clerk and in 1884
clerk of the House of Representatives. In 1885 he was
clerk of the Senate.

In 1885 he was admitted to practice in the New York
courts, and engaged in practice there until 1890, but after
three years in Huntington, Conn., he settled in Bridgeport,
Conn. In 1 89 1 he represented the town of Huntington in
the Connecticut House of Representatives, and was chosen
speaker. In 1905 he was a member of the state Senate, and
chairman of the judiciary committee. Since 1893 his home
had been in Bridgeport.

As general counsel of the Connecticut Railway and Light-
ing Co. he secured from the Legislature various charters

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for new companies and extensions. These he was able to
merge and dispose of to the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad Co. He was a director of the Poquo-
nock National Bank of Bridgeport, the International Bank-
ing Co. of New York, and of several business corporations.

While on his way to Seattle on a business trip Mr. Paige
died from appendicitis at the Streeter Hospital in Chicago
July 27, 1913. He was 59 years of age.

He married at Huntington, Conn., November 15, 1886,
Elizabeth, daughter of Nelson H. Downs, a manufacturer
of Shelton, who survives him with two of their three
daughters.

1883

Charles Wellington Brown, son of George Lyman
Brown and Mary Louise (Couch) Brown, was born May
8, 1859, at Winchester, 111. His father was a native of
New Boston, Mass., and his mother of New Hartford,
Conn. He took the classical course in Blackburn College,
at Carlinville, 111., receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts
there in 1881.

Upon graduating from the Yale Law School he practiced
a few years in Illinois, but since then had been engaged in
practice in Rapid City, S. D. He was mayor of that city
for one term to 1901, state attorney of Pennington County,
S. D., from 1889 to 1903, twice chairman of the Republican
County Central Committee, and twice a member of the
Republican State Committee.

Mr. Brown died at his home in Rapid City February 21,
191 2, in the 53d year of his age. He was a member of the
Presbyterian Church.

He married at Carlinville, 111., June 1, 1884, Mary Adella
Gore (B.A. Blackburn 1881), daughter of David Gore, who
was state auditor of Illinois from 1893 to 1897. Two
children died in infancy, but two daughters and a son with

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Mrs. Brown survive him. One of the daughters married
Robert Burton (M.A. Yale 1906).

William Pitt Niles, son of John A. Niles, a farmer of
Salem, Conn., and Mary F. (Woodbridge) Niles, was born
in Salem, November 3, 1841.

After graduation from the Law School he practiced his
profession in New Haven, and from about 1895 to 191 1
was liquor prosecuting attorney. He was a member of
Pilgrim Congregational Church, and held various church
offices, including membership on the standing committee,
and the chairmanship of the society's committee. He also
served as a burgess in the borough of Fair Haven East.

After a year of ill health, Mr. Niles died at his home in
Fair Haven, April 23, 19 14, in the 73d year of his age.

He married May 25, 1870, Mary, daughter of Luther
Sedgwick and Eliza Adelia (Buck) Dudley. She survives
him with two sons, of whom the elder is a non-graduate
member of the class of 1903 in the Law School, and the
younger, a graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School in
1906, and a daughter (B.A. Smith 1909).

1891

George Leslie Armstrong, son of Thompson Lorenzo
and Elizabeth Leslie (Martindale) Armstrong, was born
August 31, 1833, in the Island of Barbados, in the British
West Indies. He graduated from Harrison College there
in 1850, and was for many years in mercantile life in the
West Indies, but from 1856 to 1866 lived in Philadelphia,
Pa., where he was chiefly engaged in the importation of
sugar from those islands. He then came to New Haven
to reside, and had studied law and been admitted to the bar
as an attorney before entering the Senior class in the Yale
Law School. After graduation he had an office in the
Exchange Building for a time. In recent years he had

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spent his winters in the Barbados or Cuba, had visited
Alaska, and been three times to Europe.

Mr. Armstrong died at the home of his cousin, the wife
of Dr. Joseph H. Townsend (B.A. Yale 1885), in New
Haven, April 27, 1914, in the 81st year of his age. He
was a member of St. Paul's Church.

He married in Philadelphia, November 2, 1862, Sarah
Morrill Thorne, daughter of Nathaniel Arthur and Sarah
Abigail (Bishop) Thorne of New Haven. Their only child,
a daughter, is deceased, and Mrs. Armstrong died in 1909.
Their home on Olive Street, New Haven, which had also
been the home of Mrs. Armstrong's parents and grand-
parents, Mr. Armstrong gave to St. Paul's parish for
settlement work, as a memorial of his wife.

Susumu Uchida, of a samurai family, was born in
Tokyo, Japan, May 7, 1867. In 1884 he was sent to a
missionary school called the Meijigakuin in Tokyo, where
he completed the courses of the Middle School and the
College of English Literature.

In 1889 he came to the United States and entered the
Yale Law School, receiving honors in Junior year. Soon
after graduation he returned to Japan and became a teacher
of English, for several years teaching in Fukui. In 1904,
when the Russo-Japanese War broke out, he went to the
field of battle as interpreter to a foreign journalist attached
to the Japanese army, and he kept that post till the close of
the war. In 1909 he was appointed a teacher at the Middle
School in Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture.

Mr. Uchida died August 19, 1912, at the age of 45 years.
His widow and two daughters survive him.

1893
Bernard Gilpin, son of Bernard and Mary (Bernard)
Gilpin, was born September 7, 1856, in Baltimore, Md.

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He attended the Friends' Elementary and High School in
Baltimore, and in 1872-73 the preparatory department of
Swarthmore College, but on account of ill health removed
to Colorado and joined a United States Government expe-
dition for exploring the territory west of the 100th
meridian. Soon afterward he went into the cattle business
and became a successful ranchman.

After seventeen years of this life he entered the Yale
Law School, and upon graduation returned to Colorado
and was engaged in ranching and mining. Later he was
sent by investors to examine mining conditions in Japan,
Brazil, Alaska, California, and northern Mexico, and he
was connected for a time with mines near Parral, in
Chihuahua. He was afterward again in Baltimore, with
the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co., and more
recently in Pittsburgh.

He died in Baltimore, February 2, 1914, in the 58th year
of his age.

He married in Los Angeles, October 17, 1906, Miss
Helen S. Spillane, who survives him.

James St. Clair McCall, son of Captain Hugh White-
ford McCall, a lawyer, and Rachel (Kell) McCall, was
born August 15, 1872, in York, Pa., and took his prepara-
tory course in the High School there.

In his Junior year in the Yale Law School he received
the Betts Prize, and in Senior year the Jewell Prize for
superior scholarship, and graduated with highest honors.
He was admitted to the bar in his native city in 1893, and
had since practiced his profession there. He had been
counsel for the city in important matters, and from 1905
to 1908 was mayor. He was a director of the West York
Industrial Bank, a member and trustee of the First Presby-
terian Church, and active in the religious interests of the
city.

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Mr. McCall died from uraemic poisoning at his home in
York October 3, 1913. His health had been failing for
two years. He was 41 years of age.

He married in York, November 20, 1901, Anna Mary,
daughter of William Fluhrer, a jeweler, and Emma Eliza-
beth (Hake) Fluhrer. She survives him with two daugh-
ters, an only son having died in infancy. A brother also
graduated from the Law School in 1897.

1894

Richard Henry Tyner, one of the ten children of Jonas
and Mary J. (McMahon) Tyner, was born February 10,
1866, in Davenport, la. In early life he worked on a
farm, and in order to earn money for an education taught
school and engaged in various other occupations. He was
then a student in Highland Park College, Des Moines.

While in the Yale Law School he was a member of the
University Debating Team with Harvard, and at graduation
received his degree cum laude.

After graduation he practiced his profession in New
Haven and was almost from the first connected with the
New Haven City Court, first as assistant clerk, then as
assistant city attorney, city attorney, and from 1903 to 1913
as associate judge. During his last term on the bench he
sought health in Denver, Colo., and Asheville, N. C, but in
January, 1914, returned to his home in New Haven, where
he died of tuberculosis May 6, at the age of 48 years.

He married at Beatrice, Nebr., December 20, 1894,
Lillian M. Knotts, daughter of Jedediah Knotts, of
Shawnee, Okla., but they were divorced in 191 1. He mar-
ried in New Haven, Conn., June 1, 191 1, Gertrude, daughter
of Frederick H. Brethauer, former town clerk of New
Haven. She survives him with a son.

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1895

Louis Edgington Conner, son of Oliver E. Conner, a
real estate dealer, and Joanna (DeCamp) Conner, was born
October 28, 1873, in St. Louis, Mo., but received his pre-
paratory education in Cincinnati, O. He then graduated
from the University of Cincinnati, of which his father was
also a graduate.

While in the Yale Law School, he received honors in
Junior year and the first Wayland Prize in Senior year.
After graduation he was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati,
and had since practiced there.

Mr. Conner died of a cerebellar tumor in Cincinnati
March 13, 19 13, in the 40th year of his age. He was
unmarried.

1912

Harry Patrick Mayer, second son of John Francis and
Cecelia (Cunningham) Mayer, was born in Cincinnati, O.,
October 2, 1890. He received his early education in St.
John's Catholic School for Boys in Indianapolis, Ind., and
the Manual Training High School of that city. After two
years in the University of Michigan he took the combined
academic and law course in Indiana University, from which
he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 191 1, and
then entered the Senior class in the Yale Law School,
graduating with honor.

Since graduation he had practiced in Indianapolis, where
he was chosen secretary of the Democratic Committee of
the city in September, 1913, and in January, 1914, assistant
city attorney.

Mr. Mayer was killed near Camby, Ind., April 26, 1914.
The automobile in which he was returning with a friend to
Indianapolis from Martinsville struck an obstruction and
was overturned, and he was thrown beneath the machine,

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dying soon afterward from a fractured skull. He was in
his 24th year, and not married. His mother and three
brothers survive him.

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1897

Charles Aaron Van Vleck, son of William L. and
Rebecca Van Vleck, was born at Shell Rock, Butler County,
la., April 20, 1861. He was a student in the State Uni-
versity of Iowa from 1885 to 1887, read law, and was
admitted to the Iowa bar in 1889. He practiced in
Waverly, la., until 1896, then spent a year in the
Graduate class of the Yale Law School, and received the
degree of Master of Laws in 1897.

The following year he was a Graduate student in political
science in the University of Minnesota. In 1899 he settled
in Des Moines, and was assistant attorney-general of Iowa
until 1903. From 1900 to 1905 he was connected with
Highland Park College of Law, at first as Lecturer on
Roman Law, then until 1903 as Professor of Contracts
and Evidence, and from 1903 to 1905 as Dean. Since then
he had been Professor of the Law of Contracts in Drake
University and had also practiced his profession in Des
Moines.

Professor Van Vleck died in Des Moines August 5, 1913,
at the age of 52 years. His widow and three children
survive him.

1913

Arthur Reed Dearth, son of George Michael Dearth,
a real estate dealer, and Emma (Reed) Dearth, was born
April 3, 1890, at Dunreath, la. His preparatory educa-
tion was obtained in the Capital City Commercial College
in Des Moines. He received the degree of Bachelor of

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Laws from Drake University in 191 2, and was admitted to
the Iowa bar.

After a year in the Graduate class in the Yale Law School
he received the degree of Master of Laws cum laude in
1913, and since then had practiced his profession in Des
Moines.

Mr. Dearth died of typhoid pneumonia in Des Moines,
December 3, 19 13, in the 24th year of his age. He was
not married. His parents survive him.

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1854

Alonzo Tyler Mosman, son of Tyler and Harriet
(Hayden) Mosman, was born February 5, 1835, at
Stoughton, Mass. He was fitted for college at the Worces-
ter (Mass.) High School, his home being then in Brook-
field, Mass., where his father was a boot manufacturer.

He took the Engineering course in the Sheffield Scientific
School, and after graduation returned to the School and
was for a year Assistant in that subject. June 1, 1856,
he entered the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey,
where he served for fifty-seven years. He was soon
chosen to assist Dr. Benjamin A. Gould (B.A. Harvard
1844) in making astronomical observations at Cambridge
and at the Dudley Observatory, Albany, for the Survey.
In 1859 he was sent to the Pacific coast, and the following
year he observed the eclipse of the sun with Lieutenant
J. M. Gillis, United States Navy, at Steilacoom, Washing-
ton, but on account of the Civil War he returned East.
In 1862 he was with a party surveying the Florida Reefs.
The next year he was acting assistant engineer in the
Army of West Virginia, and at great hazard and under
the most trying circumstances engaged with the other
officers in preparing military maps. In 1864, under
Admiral Lee, he made a dangerous but successful survey
along the Tennessee River for the same purpose.

He took part in the determination of the longitude of
Washington from Greenwich over the first Atlantic cable,
being stationed at Valencia, Ireland. In 1867 he made
astronomical observations in the new territory of Alaska,
and three years later was with Admiral Selfridge in
explorations on the Isthmus of Darien for a route for an
interoceanic canal. From 1892 to 1896 he was a United

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States commissioner on the boundary line between Mexico
and the United States.

From 1856 to 1903 his main work was on transcontinental
triangulation, his duties taking him into all the states along
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and most of the interior
states. After that he was in charge of the precise tri-
angulation of Greater New York in cooperation with the
city government, but in 1910 became chief of the chart
division of the Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Mr. Mosman died after an illness of many months from
cancer at his home in Washington June 9, 191 3, at the age
of 78 years.

He was a member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers and the Washington Academy of Science.

He married in Rutland, Vt., December 23, 1861, Lucy
Augusta, daughter of Chester Merritt, of Brookfield,
Mass., and had two sons (respectively, B.S. Mass. Inst.
Tech., 1887 and E.E. Lehigh Univ. 1892) and two
daughters, all of whom with Mrs. Mosman survive him.

1864

Robert Long Brownfield, only son of Colonel Ewing
Brownfield, a merchant and bank president in Uniontown,
Pa., was born there February 7, 1844. His mother was
Julia A. (Long) Brownfield, of Springfield township,
Fayette County, Pa. His preparatory education was
obtained at Madison College in Uniontown, and the
Episcopal Institute at New Brighton, Pa.

In the Sheffield Scientific School he took the Engineering
course, and upon graduation returned to Uniontown, and
at first became interested in searching for oil, and was then
connected with the Fayette County Mutual Fire Insurance
Co. In 1865 he moved to Philadelphia, Pa., and engaged
in a general commission business until about 1880, and was
then associated with the management of a number of banks,

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trust companies, and other corporations, in Philadelphia
and elsewhere. After holding the office of director of the
Seventh National Bank of Philadelphia for several years,
in 1888 he was chosen president of the bank. In 1892 he
resigned that position to accept an appointment as one of
the commissioners from Pennsylvania to the World's
Columbian Exposition at Chicago, and was chairman of the
Art Committee. Upon the completion of his work in this
connection, he retired from all business.

Mr. Brownfield died at his home in Atlantic City, N. J.,
April 13, 1913, at the age of 69 years. He was buried at
Uniontown, Pa.

He married, December 7, 1867, Sophie E., daughter of
Alfred Newlon of Uniontown, and had three sons, who
survive him. One of the sons graduated from Swarthmore
College in 1900.

Frederick Farnsworth, son of Dr. Ralph Farnsworth
(B.A. Harvard 1821), a physician in Norwich, Conn., was
born in that city December 5, 1842, and was prepared for
college at the Norwich Free Academy. His mother was
Eunice Williams (Billings) Farnsworth, sister of Hon.
Noyes Billings and William W. Billings (respectively,
B.A. Yale 1819 and 1821), who were whaling merchants
in New London.

After graduation he studied in Bellevue Hospital and
Medical College (now New York University), receiving
his medical degree in 1867, and was then at the Nursery
Hospital in New York City two years. Later he engaged
in manufacturing, and was in the oil business in Philadel-
phia, Pa., till 1887. Since then his home had been in New
London, where he died after an illness of five months
from paralysis, February 23, 1914. He was 71 years of
age.

He married in Philadelphia, November 12, 1878, Lydia
Warner Sanderson, daughter of William Sanderson. She

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died at New London, March 12, 1888. They had no
children. A brother survives him.

1868

Lyman Bradley Pars hall, son of Caleb Halsey Par-
shall, a farmer, and Betsey Barlow (Bradley) Parshall, was
born June 28, 1845, at Interlaken, N. Y. He taught school
before coming to Yale, and was fitted for college at
Northville, Long Island, N. Y. He took the Select course.

Since graduation he had been engaged in stock-raising
at Canton, la. He was county superintendent for Jackson
County from 1892 to 1896. In 1908 he was elected
Democratic state senator.

He died at his home in Canton, May 9, 191 3, in the
68th year of his age.

He married near Cedar Rapids, la., July 24, 1884, Ella
Rebecca, daughter of Philip Smith, a farmer, and had two
daughters.

1869

Charles Henrique Pope, son of Samuel W. and Helen
Ruth (Avery) Pope, was born April 16, 1849, at Genoa,
Cayuga County, N. Y. After preparation in the Louis-
ville (Ky.) High School, he took the Civil Engineering-
course in the Sheffield Scientific School. His father was
a native of Hallowell, Me., and a business man, who died
in St. Louis, Mo., in 1892.

After graduation he was with the Louisville (Ky.)
Agricultural Works for ten years. On their failure he
moved to St. Louis, Mo., and was with Deere, Mansur &
Co. ten years. Removing to Moline, 111., in 1889, he was
in charge of the office of Deere & Co. five years. In 1894
he resigned that position and engaged in the real estate
business, in 1895 becoming president and treasurer of the

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East Moline Land Co., and in 1898 assistant treasurer of
Deere & Co., Inc. Soon afterward he took up the manu-
facture of cement, and in 1903 was made vice-president
of the Iola Portland Cement Co., but four years later he
sold his interest. In 1905 he organized the American
Harvester Co., manufacturing mowers. Afterward he was
elected president and manager of the Midland Motor Co.,
succeeding the Deere Clark Motor Car Co., manufacturers
of automobiles at East Moline.

Mr. Pope died of erysipelas at Moline, 111., May 23, 191 3,
at the age of 64 years. His body was cremated.

He married at Milburn, N. J., March 13, 1879, Lillian
Elma, daughter of Sylvanus Lyon. She died in September,
1880, leaving no children. September 12, 1882, he married
in St. Louis, Mo., Sarah Margaret, daughter of William
Drake Baxter, of Cincinnati, and Sarah Margaret (Patter-
son) Baxter, and had three sons and two daughters, who
with Mrs. Pope survive him. One of the sons received the
degree of Bachelor of Science from the University of
Illinois in 1909.

1870

William Dennis Marks, son of Dennis Marks, was
born February 26, 1849, in St. Louis, Mo. His mother
was Amira (Bacon) Marks. After preparation in General
Russell's Collegiate and Commercial Institute in New
Haven, he took the Civil Engineering course in the Sheffield
Scientific School.

The year after graduation he continued his studies as a
Graduate student, and received the degree of Civil Engineer
in 1 87 1. Soon afterward he became assistant to one of
the division engineers of the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western Railroad, and then transitman on the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway. In 1872 he was appointed resident
engineer and accountant to the contractors for the Laclede

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Gas Works in St. Louis. After their completion he
engaged in building locomotives and blast furnaces, and
their machinery, as contractor until 1876, when he was
appointed Instructor in Dynamical Engineering in the
University of Pennsylvania, and the following year Whit-
ney Professor of Dynamical Engineering there. In 1884
he had leave of absence in order to superintend and organize
the scientific work of the International Exhibition of the
Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. The following year
he was chairman of the executive committee of the Insti-
tute, which completed its standard series of experiments
on applications of steam and electricity. He had special
charge of the details of electrical measurement and of
photometric tests.

After holding his professorship twenty-two years he
resigned in 1889 to become engineer to the Edison Electric
Co. of Philadelphia, for which he designed and built an
electric light station larger than any previously constructed.
Soon afterward he was appointed engineer to the Edison
General Co. of New York, but after a few months he
returned to Philadelphia. In 1892 he was elected president
of the Philadelphia Edison Electric Co., and so continued
until the company sold its property in 1896.

Since then he had engaged in the construction of elec-
trical apparatus and practiced as consulting engineer, being
connected with many gas, electric light and electric rail-
road companies as manager, director or president, and
besides his work of construction and operation had given
special attention to the accounting departments and finances
of the companies. In 1906 he was appointed as expert gas
and electric light engineer for the City of New York and
made investigations of the cost of construction and
operation of the gas and electric light companies supplying
the city.

He was the author of "The Relative Proportions of the
Steam Engine," 1880; "The Finance of Gas and Elec-

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tricity Manufacturing Enterprises," 1902; "An Equal
Opportunity: a Plea for Individualism," 1905; prepared
a Revised Edition of Nystrom's Mechanics' Pocket Book,
1885 ; and he wrote various reports and papers on engi-
neering. Since graduation he had served as Secretary of
his class.

He was an honorary life member of the Franklin Insti-
tute and for some time chairman of its committee on
science and the arts, fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, member of the American
Philosophical Society, the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, and other technical societies.

Mr. Marks died at the Champlain Valley Hospital, Platts-
burg, N. Y., January 7, 1914, in his 65th year. He had
been spending some time in Westport, N. Y.

He married at Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1874, Jeanette
Holmes Colwell, who died in Westport, N. Y., in 1894.
Two daughters survive him, the elder having been
Professor of English Literature at Mount Holyoke.

1871

Alfred Louis Moore, son of Benjamin Franklin and
Eliza Mary (Conklin) Moore, was born in Fond du Lac,
Wise, May 1, 1850. His father was a native of Water-
ville, Me., but settled in 1846 in Fond du Lac, where he
engaged in the lumber and real estate business and in
1874 in the making of wagons. Both his parents died in
1904.

On finishing his preparation in the Fond du Lac High
School, he entered the Sheffield Scientific School, and took
the course in Civil Engineering.

After graduation he was surveying for a few years in
the state of Washington, and during that time laid out the
town of Wenatchee, a suburb of Everett. He then

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returned to Fond du Lac and was connected with his father
and brothers in the La Belle Wagon Co. He was later in
Racine, Wise, with the Fish Brothers Wagon Co., but in
October, 1896, became connected with the Moline Wagon
Co., at Moline, 111. Upon the sale of that business in
January, 1910, to Deere & Co., he was made vice-president
and general manager, but January 1, 19 12, retired from
business, and spent the winter in Florida, and the follow-
ing summer in Fond du Lac. In September, 19 12, he
sailed for Naples with his wife and daughter, and then
went to Rome, Italy. While on the links of the Rome Golf
Club, he died suddenly of angina pectoris February 24,
1913, in the 63d year of his age. He was buried in that
city.

Mr. Moore married at Fond du Lac, May 20, 1875, Sarah
Louisa, daughter of Edward Colman, and had a son,
Edward C. (B.A. Yale 1899), and a daughter, who with
Mrs. Moore survive him.

1874

William McGrath, son of William and Helen
(Lamont) McGrath, was born April 3, 1848, in Bridgeport,
Conn. After preparation in the New York Free Academy,
New York City, he took the Civil Engineering course in
the Sheffield Scientific School.

For ten years after graduation he had charge of the
Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine office in Hartford, and
in 1884 founded the New Haven Decorating Co., from
which he retired in 1906 owing to ill health.

He died of paralysis February 27, 1914, at his home in
East Haven, Conn., where he had resided since 1906. He
was in his 66th year. He was a member of the East
Haven Congregational Church.

He married in Hartford, Conn., November 12, 1879,
Isadora, daughter of William Henry and Laura (Preston)

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Collins, and had two daughters and a son, who with Mrs.
McGrath survive him.

1878

Frank Turner Moorhead was born in Pittsburgh, Pa.,
September 23, 1857. He was the son of John Moorhead,
an ironmaster, and Anne (Turner) Moorhead.

Before coming to Yale he was a student in the Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh. He took the Select course in the
Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation, with his brother, John Moorhead, Jr.,
he was a member of the firm of Moorhead Brothers &
Co., owners of the Vesuvius Iron Works at Sharpsburg,
Pa. About 1 89 1 he retired from that firm, and had since
then been connected with James D. Dyer & Co., iron and
steel factors, of Pittsburgh.

Mr. Moorhead died of pneumonia December 14, 19 13,
at the Allegheny General Hospital. He was 56 years of
age.

He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., February 6, 1882, Kate,
daughter of Rear-Admiral John H. and Martha Custis
(Williams) Upshur. A son (Ph.B. Yale 1908) survives
him.

1883

David Murdoch Pratt, son of Daniel Ransom Pratt, a
native of Havana, N. Y., and Isabella (Murdoch) Pratt,
was born at Elmira, N. Y., May 10, 1861. He was prepared
for college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.

Soon after graduation he entered the Second National
Bank of Elmira, of which his father was president. Start-
ing as messenger and bookkeeper, he was elected cashier in
January, 1887, and president in May, 1904. Since October,
1 90 1, he had also been postmaster. He was active in the

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commercial, social, and religious interests of the city. He
was a member of the Lake Street Presbyterian Church,
and for several years a trustee.

Mr. Pratt died at his home in Elmira, November 25, 1913.
In the spring he had had pneumonia, and had not been well
since then. He was 52 years of age.

He married, December 8, 1886, Madeline, daughter of
Hon. John H. Woodward, of Portland, Ore., and Anna
(Whitaker) Woodward. She survives him with a daugh-
ter. A brother and sister are also living.

1887

Erwin Starr Sperry, son of Hobart and Mary Jane
(French) Sperry, both natives of Bethany, Conn., was
born February 28, 1866, in Ansonia, Conn. After pre-
paratory work in the High School of Birmingham (now
Derby, West Side), Conn., he took the Chemistry course
in the Sheffield Scientific School.

For four years following graduation he was Assistant
in Analytical Chemistry in the School, and was then super-
intendent of the Waldo Foundry until 1905, when he
founded the Brass World, of which he had since been the
editor and publisher.

He died of Bright's disease at his home in Bridgeport,
January 31, 19 14, in the 48th year of his age.

He married in Derby, Conn., June 23, 1891, Jennie Ginn
Perry, daughter of George H. and Harriet Frances (Lyon)
Perry. She survives him. They had no children.

1888

Charles Kirtland Shelton, son of John Hiram and
Sarah M. (Foote) Shelton, was born June 6, 1864, in
Waterbury, Conn. After preparation in the Wesleyan

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Academy, Wilbraham, Mass., he took the Chemical course
in the Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he was with the Bridgeport Brass Co.
in Bridgeport, Conn., from 1889 to 1897, and was also
proprietor of a steam laundry a year. Since then he had
been with the Benedict & Burnham Manufacturing Co. in
Waterbury.

Mr. Shelton died after an operation for appendicitis at
the Waterbury Hospital August 15, 191 3, at the age of 49
years. He was a member of the Second Congregational
Church in Waterbury.

He married in Bridgeport, July 7, 1897, Katherine
Lincoln Arnold, daughter of George W. and Charlotte B.
(Hubbell) Arnold, who survives him with two daughters.

1892

Wilbur Fisk Day, son of Wilbur Fisk Day, who was
president of the National New Haven Bank and for many
years auditor of Yale University, was born in New Haven
August 30, 1 87 1. His mother was Mary Jane (Osborn)
Day. He studied in the Hopkins Grammar School for
four years, then at Phillips (Andover) Academy, and in
the Sheffield Scientific School took the Civil Engineering
course.

After graduation he was connected with the Lavigne and
Scott Manufacturing Co. for a number of years, and was
then in the National New Haven Bank for a time, but on
account of ill health had not been in active business for
the past eight years. He was a communicant of Christ
(Episcopal) Church.

Mr. Day died at his home in New Haven, May 25, 1914,
in the 43d year of his age. He was unmarried, and is
survived by his mother, and by two brothers, graduates of
the Sheffield Scientific School in 1889 and 1899, respectively.

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1894

Ralph Albree, son of Joseph Albree, a wholesale boot
and shoe dealer and banker, was born in Allegheny, Pa.,
October 17, 1872. His mother was Martha (Bid well)
Albree. He was prepared at Phillips (Andover) Academy,
and took the Civil Engineering course in the Sheffield
Scientific School.

After graduation he was a civil engineer on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Lines West of Pittsburgh until 1898, when
he became associated with his brother in the Chester B.
Albree Iron Works of Allegheny, later becoming a partner.
In 1906 the business was incorporated as the Chester B.
Albree Iron Works Co., of which he had since been secre-
tary and treasurer.

While visiting in New York City he died February 16,
1914. He was in his 42d year.

He married, January 22, 1901, Anna Theodora, daugh-
ter of James Theodore Wood, an iron manufacturer of
Allegheny. She survives him with four sons and three
daughters.

Meyer Wolodarsky, son of Israel Wolodarsky, a whole-
sale dry goods merchant, and Eva (Jampolsky) Wolo-
darsky, was born May 9, 1862, in Belaja Zerkow, Kiev,
Russia. He gained his early education in a number of
Hebrew schools, and took the Civil Engineering course in
the Sheffield Scientific School.

He immediately began a Graduate course in mathematics
and Biblical subjects, and received the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy in 1899. During the year 1898-99 he was
Assistant in Rabbinical Literature in the University, and
for four years following Instructor in Russian. He began
the study of law in New Haven, continued it a year in the
New York Law School, and since 1902 had practiced law

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with his son (Ph.B. Yale 1900) in New York City. He
was also a book editor and publisher of the Morgen Journal.

Dr. Wolodarsky died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 6, 1914,
in the 52d year of his age.

He married, June 10, 1879, Malka Manastirsky of Skvira,
Kiev, Russia, daughter of Akiba Manastirsky, a merchant,
and had three sons and three daughters. A brother gradu-
ated from the Yale Medical School in 1906.

1895

Robert Anderson, son of Larz and Emma (Mendenhall)
Anderson, was born in Cincinnati, O., June 28, 1874. He
was prepared for college at the Franklin School.

After graduation from the Sheffield Scientific School he
entered the Junior class in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, continuing his course in Electrical Engineer-
ing, and received there the degree of Bachelor of Science
in the summer of 1897.

During the following six years he was associated in dif-
ferent positions with the Bullock Electric Manufacturing
Co. in Cincinnati, and in 1903 with W. P. Anderson and
Tylor Field formed the Ferro-Concrete Construction Co.,
with which he had since been connected.

Mr. Anderson died of paresis at his home in Cincinnati,
October 28, 1913, at the age of 39 years. A brother grad-
uated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1894 and
another brother from Columbia University in 1891.

He married in Cincinnati, April 9, 1902, Clara M.,
daughter of William H. and Isabelle (Mitchell) Ellis, who
survives him with three sons and a daughter.

Frederick Deming Sherman, son of John Taylor Sher-
man, a native of Suffield, Conn., and a New York merchant,
was born February 23, 1872, in Brooklyn, N. Y. His

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mother was Julia Champion (Deming) Sherman. After
preparation in the Dwight School, New York City, he took
the Select course in the Sheffield Scientific School.

Since graduation he had been in the wholesale fine cotton
goods business in New York City which was established
by his father, and was vice-president and treasurer of the
Sherman & Sons Co.

Mr. Sherman died after a brief illness from pneumonia
with complications at his home in Brooklyn, April 30, 1914,
at the age of 42 years.

He married in Brooklyn, January 30, 1900, Leslie, daugh-
ter of Isaac A. Whitman, a New York merchant. She
survives him with a daughter and two sons.

1896

Theodore Edward Smith, son of Jabez William and
Mary (Diamond) Smith, was born August 30, 1874, in
Milford, Conn. After preparation in the Hopkins Gram-
mar School, New Haven, he took the Chemical course in
the Sheffield Scientific School.

In July, 1897, he was appointed chemist for the Central
Lard Co. of New York. He had charge of their cotton
oil manufacture and soap business in 1898, all their manu-
facturing in 1899, designed new factories for them which
were completed in 1902, and continued as superintendent
until the absorption of the business by Halstead & Co., meat
packers, in 1907. He was manager of the technical depart-
ment of the latter until January, 191 1. He was then
appointed official chemist to the New York Produce
Exchange and referee to the Cotton Seed Products Trade,
and in July of the same year referee chemist to the United
States Shellac Association. He had recently been advisory
chemist to the Corn Products Refining Co. of Edge water,
N. J. From 1897 to 1902 his home was in New York City,
and since then at Weehawken, N. J.

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He patented a process for combining oils and fats with
heavier fluids, and a circulator, for mixing liquids of dif-
ferent specific gravity.

He was a member of the sub-committee on oils and fats
of the International Congress of Applied Chemistry in 19 12.
He was a member of the governing board of the Association
of Cotton Seed Products Analysts, of the American Insti-
tute of Chemical Engineers, and of the American Chemical
Society.

Mr. Smith died at his home in Weehawken, September
2, 1913, at the age of 39 years.

He married at Mil ford, Conn., September 18, 1900, Ada
May, daughter of Charles A. and Lucia (Sperry) Tomlin-
son. She survives him.

1898

Paul David Kelley, youngest son of David Kelley, a
prominent commission and wholesale heavy hardware
merchant of Chicago, 111., was born in that city August
11, 1875. His mother was Sarah J., daughter of Lund
Lovejoy, of Lowell, Mass. He was prepared for college
at the Hill School and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.,
and took the Civil Engineering course in the Sheffield
Scientific School.

After graduation he entered his father's business in
Chicago, but about 1909 engaged in farming in Clarke
County, Va.

He married at her father's home in Neenah, Wise, June
17, 1909, Mrs. Herbert Alward, daughter of John Stevens,
a capitalist, and Mary A. (Osborn) Stevens.

Mr. Kelley died of nephritis at Berryville, Va., May 4,
1913, in the 38th year of his age. He had no children.
His widow, mother, and a brother survive him. He was
buried in Chicago.

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1903

George Frederic Chatfield, son of Henry Beach and
Ida Elizabeth (Adt) Chatfield, was born March 11, 1881,
in New Haven, Conn. He was prepared for college in
the Boardman Manual Training High School there, and
took the Chemical course in the Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he studied a year at Heidelberg Uni-
versity, Germany, and traveled a while in Europe. On
his return he became chemist for the Gulf Refining Co.
at Port Arthur, Texas, and in 1907 chief chemist of the
Waters-Pierce Oil Co. While at their refinery at Tampico,
Mex., he was taken ill with the coast fever and was obliged
to resign his position. He made a long sea voyage along
the coast of Mexico and South America, and later went
to Cuba, Spain, and France.

Upon his return in 1909 he became chemist and engineer
for the Valvoline Oil Co. at Edgewater, N. J., and from
November, 19 13, held the same position with the Indian
Refining Co. at Lawrenceville, 111., where he died from
heart trouble, January 8, 1914. He was in his 33d year.
The burial was in New Haven.

He married in Newport, R. I., January 24, 191 1, Clemen-
tina Augusta, daughter of Eugenio and Agnes (Jackson)
Marinelli. She survives him, also his parents and a sister.

Charles Barnes Hoadley, son of Charles Ammi Hoad-
ley, a merchant and town clerk of Branford, Conn., was
born in that town July 18, 1883. His mother was Lizzie
Gertrude (Crowe) Hoadley. He was fitted for college at
the Branford High School, and took the Mining
Engineering course in the Sheffield Scientific School.

The summer after graduation he was draftsman for the
Malleable Iron Fittings Co. of Branford, in the autumn
returned to the Sheffield Scientific School for a course in
Chemistry, and the following June attended the Crocker

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Summer School of Mining at Silver Plume, Colo. In
August, he went to Denver where he worked in a zinc
mill and the Globe Smelter, was then at Silverton, Colo.,
in different mines and mills, was at the Union Mill in
Florence, Colo., in May, 1905, and later assistant assay er
and chemist at the Dorcas Mill until its destruction by fire
in March, 1906. After traveling with a party of mining
experts through Nevada and adjoining parts of California,
he entered the employ of the Quartette Mining Co. at
Searchlight, Nev., remaining until November, 1907, when
he became an assayer for the Interior Mining and Trust
Co. near Wickenburg, Ariz., and later foreman of the
cyanide plant and metallurgist for the company, but in
June, 1908, the mills were closed. After visiting his home
in Branford for the first time in four years, he returned
to Searchlight, but early in 1910 went to Mexico to study
methods of treating ores, and was superintendent of the
stamp mill of the Zambona Mining Co. at Minas in Sonora
County, then going to mills at Guanajuato. In October,
1912, he went to the mills of the McKeever Brothers of
New York City and became assistant to the general
superintendent and metallurgist of the El Favor mine at
Hostolipaquillo, belonging to the McKeever Brothers of
New York City. While passing through a ravine in pur-
suing a party of Mexican bandits who had robbed the
company's general store, he and a companion were killed,
April 26, 19 14. He was in his 31st year and unmarried.

1905

Alexander Scott McLean, born February 26, 1883, in
Danbury, Conn., was the son of David and Ellen J. (Scott)
McLean. He was prepared for college at the Norwalk
(Conn.) University School, and took the Electrical Engi-
neering course in the Sheffield Scientific School. He was

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a member of the Freshman Glee Club, chairman of the
Scientific Monthly, treasurer and a member of the executive
committee of the Christian Association of the Department,
vice-president of the class, and a member of the Class
Day committee.

He spent the summer after graduation abroad. In
February, 1907, he engaged in the automobile business, and
was manager of the Pyramid Motor Car Co. until July 30,
1910, when he was so seriously hurt in an automobile
accident that he was an invalid until his death, which
occurred in Danbury December 4, 191 3. He was in the
31st year of his age. He was a member of the First
Congregational Church.

He married at Brookline, Mass., June 20, 1908, Helen
Eglee, who survives him with a son. His parents, a
brother, and three sisters are also living.

Herbert Vincent Olds, son of Alfred Allen and Eliza-
beth Maria (Whipple) Olds, was born May 23, 1883, in
Hartford, Conn., and was prepared for college in the High
School in that city. He took the Civil Engineering course
in the Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he continued his studies as a Graduate
student and in 1907 received the degree of Civil Engineer.
He was then for nearly four years with the Central New
England Railway as transitman. Since then he had been
engaged with his brother, Alfred W. Olds, in the manage-
ment of a tobacco plantation at Bloomfield, Conn. He was
a member of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church in
Hartford.

Mr. Olds died after an operation for appendicitis com-
plicated with a gastric ulcer at the Charter Oak Hospital
in Hartford, December 2, 1913. He was in his 31st year.

He married in Lynn, Mass., January 8, 19 13, Mary
Emerson Lovejoy (B.A. Wellesley 1905), daughter of

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Dr. Charles Averill Lovejoy (B.A. Harvard 1872). She
survives him with his parents, two sisters, and two brothers
(Ph.B. Yale 1899 and 19°2> respectively).

Richard Clement Whittier, son of Charles Robert
Whittier (B.S. Wore. Polyt. Inst. 1877), an engineer, was
born July 25, 1883, in Worcester, Mass. His mother was
Mariana (Souther) Whittier, sister of William T. Souther
(B.A. Yale 1873) and John I. Souther (B.A. Yale 1884)
and daughter of Rev. Samuel Souther (B.A. Dartmouth
1842). He was prepared for college at the High School
at Port Richmond, Staten Island, N. Y.

He took the Biological course in the Sheffield Scientific
School, was a member of the University Glee Club, of the
governing board of Byers Hall, and of the executive com-
mittee of the Young Men's Christian Association of the
Department. During the three years of his course he was
a member of the University Crew and in Senior year its
captain. He was also president of his class.

Since graduation he had had congenial work as instructor
in history in the Pomfret School, at Pomfret Center, Conn.,
and the last three years was senior master. In the fall of
1913 he was unable to resume his work, and after an ill-
ness of two months died of acute Bright's disease at a
hospital in Brookline, Mass., October 26, 191 3, at the age
of 30 years. He was buried in the Forest Hills Cemetery,
Boston. He was unmarried. His father and a sister
survive him.

1906

Joseph Cornelius Rathborne, only child of Joseph and
Catherine (Van Schaak) Rathborne, was born in Chicago,
111., July 20, 1883. He received his preparatory training

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in New Orleans and at the Harstrom School in Norwalk,
Conn. He entered the Sheffield Scientific School with the
Class of 1905 but joined 1906 in Junior year, taking the
Select course.

After graduation he entered his father's business, becom-
ing secretary and treasurer of the Louisiana Cypress
Lumber Co., of which his father was president. He
was also connected with the Excelsior Lumber Co. of
Timberton, La.

He died after a week's illness from blood poisoning,
February 21, 19 14, in his 31st year, at his home in Harvey,
La., opposite New Orleans.

He married in New Orleans, June 12, 1907, Miss George
Winship, daughter of James M. Winship. She survives
him with a son.

1907

Clifford Andrew Upson, son of William C. and Fannie
S. Upson, and grandson of Captain Andrew Upson (B.A.
Yale 1849), was DOrn November 3, 1885, in Southington,
Conn. He was prepared for college at the Lewis High
School in that place, and took the Civil Engineering course
in the Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he was for a short time with his father's
firm of Upson Brothers, grocers in Southington, was then
draftsman in the construction department of the Winchester
Repeating Arms Co. nearly four years, and since then had
been in the office of the First Assistant Chief Engineer of
the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. in
New Haven.

Mr. Upson died of typhoid pneumonia at his home in
New Haven, March 31, 191 3, in the 28th year of his age.
He was not married. Besides his parents a younger
brother is living.

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Robert Wallace, eldest son of Frank Albert and Zella
(Curtis) Wallace, was born in Wallingford, Conn., Feb-
ruary 8, 1885. After preparation at St. Paul's School,
Concord, N. H., he took the Chemistry course in the
Sheffield Scientific School.

The first two years after graduation he was purchasing
agent for the R. Wallace & Sons Manufacturing Co., silver-
smiths, in Wallingford, but then owing to ill health he spent
two years in a hospital at Loomis, N. Y. Later he entered
the United States Forest Service, and was stationed on
the Stanislaus National Forest, with headquarters at
Sonora, California, and early in 1913 he became purchasing
agent for the Yuba Construction Co. in San Francisco.

Mr. Wallace died of tuberculosis at Monrovia, Calif.,
January 17, 1914, in the 29th year of his age. The burial
was in Wallingford.

He married in Philadelphia, April 10, 191 2, Helen
Miriam, daughter of Rev. William Almor Spinney, D.D.
(B.A. Colgate 1877), and Ella Maud (Bingham) Spinney,
who survives him without children. A brother graduated
from the Academical Department in 1909. He was a
nephew of George Martin Wallace (B.A. Yale 1881).

1909

Julian Penfield Burr, son of Algernon Taylor Burr
and Clarissa Josephine (Downes) Burr, was born October
11, 1890, in Greenwich, Conn. His father, a non-graduate
member of the Class of 1875 in the Sheffield Scientific
School, was secretary of the Mill Creek Coal Company and
other coal companies. After preparation at the Gunnery
School, Washington, Conn., he took the Mechanical
Engineering course in the Sheffield Scientific School.

After graduation he was for nearly a year in the coke
department of the Algoma Steel Corporation at Sault Sainte

1907-n 7QI

Marie, Ontario, Canada. In 1912 he removed to Chicago,
and was with the H. Koppers Co., constructors of
by-product coke and gas ovens.

Mr. Burr died of diphtheria following typhoid fever in
Chicago, November 26, 191 3, at the age of 23 years. He
was unmarried. A brother graduated from the Sheffield
Scientific School in 1906 and another brother from the
Connecticut Agricultural College in 1908.

Emanuel Louis Dreyfus, son of Louis Goethe Dreyfus,
a native of Paris, France, and Constance (Auerswald)
Dreyfus, was born February 13, 1888, at Santa Barbara,
Calif. He was prepared for the Sheffield Scientific School
at the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn., and took the
Civil Engineering course.

After graduation he returned to Santa Barbara, . and
engaged in the real estate business with his father, becom-
ing junior member of the firm of Louis G. Dreyfus & Son.
In addition to this he was secretary of the Arlington Hotel
Co. and the Stearns Wharf Co. He was also secretary
of the Santa Barbara Chapter of the Southern California
Yale Alumni Association.

Mr. Dreyfus died of sarcoma at his home in Santa Bar-
bara, September 4, 1913, at the age of 25 years. His
parents, two sisters, and a brother (B.A. Yale 1910)
survive him.

1911

Albert Bernard Coxe, son of George Lissant Coxe, a
dry goods merchant, and Florence (Albert) Coxe, was born
September 20, 1891, at Maysville, Ky. His college pre-
paration was obtained at the New York Military Academy
at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, N. Y., and the Princeton
Preparatory School.

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He took the course in Sanitary Engineering in the Shef-
field Scientific School, and after graduation was assistant
treasurer of the Cort-Kitsee Company in New York City,
but his health soon began to fail and he went to California,
spending some time in Redlands. He died of pneumonia
at the Maryland Hotel, Pasadena, October 8, 191 3, at the
age of 22 years. His parents survive him. He was
a communicant of the Church of the Nativity.

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1875

Andrew Lewis Buttner, son of Andrew Buttner, a
cabinet maker, and Catherine (Antrup) Buttner, was born
February 26, 1845, m F°rt Wayne, Ind. He received the
degree of Bachelor of Arts from Wabash College in 1871,
and then entered the Yale Divinity School, but was away
from the School during part of his Middle year.

After a pastorate of about two years at Elkhart, Ind., he
returned to Fort Wayne where he taught school and sup-
plied several small churches in the neighborhood for about
four years. He then went to Gallatin, Tenn., and
worked for the Indiana Lumber Co. until he engaged
in the lumber business for himself at "The Ridge" in
Tennessee, where he also preached. From there he went
to Drake, Allen County, Ky., where he was similarly
occupied.

On account of failing voice he gave up the ministry
several years ago, and sought a warm climate at Loxley,
Baldwin County, Ala. There he died of pulmonary tuber-
culosis, November 4, 191 3, in the 69th year of his age.

He married at Gallatin, Tenn., Mattie Blanche Whiteside,
who died in April, 1905. He married, July 20, 1909, Nola
M., daughter of John S. and Elizabeth Morris, who
survives him with a son.

1876

Doane Rich Atkins, son of Deacon Paul and Kezia
(Paine) Atkins, was born at Truro, Mass., April 25, 1845.
He was a fisherman until he was 21, and then entered
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., where he was fitted for

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Amherst College. From there he graduated as a Bachelor
of Arts in 1873.

Upon receiving his degree from the Yale Divinity School
in 1876, he preached at Westbrook, Conn., where he was
ordained and installed as pastor of the Congregational
Church January 17, 1877. He closed his work there in
April, 1878, and from September, 1879, to September, 1881,
supplied at Brimfield, Mass. In October of the latter
year he became a home missionary in the Black Hills of
South Dakota, being stationed at Custer, Mitchell, and
Columbia until 1888. While in this work he led in building
two churches, which were dedicated free of debt. In the
winter of 1888 he was called to Calumet, Mich., where he
was pastor until 1892. He then engaged in journalistic and
literary work in Chicago. His song "Sailing a Summer
Sea," 1906, and the Christian Endeavor song, "The Star in
the East," were published, and his "Historical Discourse
commemorating One Hundred and Fifty Years of the Con-
gregational Church at Westbrook, Conn.," was also printed.
The degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him by
Amherst College in 1896.

After a severe illness from heart trouble Mr. Atkins died
October 11, 1913, at his home, Lawn Ridge, South Haven,
Mich., at the age of 68 years. The burial was in Worcester,
Mass.

He married at Worcester, Mass., December 25, 1883,
Elizabeth, daughter of Ephraim Willard Wesson and Betsey
Gilbert (Reed) Wesson. They had no children. Mrs.
Atkins died in Worcester, February 24, 19 14.

1878

Theodore Booth Willson, son of James Bradley Will-
son (B.A. W. Reserve 1846), who was for two years a
student in the Yale Law School, for thirty years a lawyer
in Grand Rapids, Mich., and commissioner of the circuit

1876-78 7°5

court, was born at Cuyahoga Falls, O., May 26, 185 1. His
mother was Charlotte O. (Booth) Willson. His father
was at Cuyahoga Falls and later in Willoughby, O., in prac-
tice until 1858, when he removed to Grand Rapids, where
the son was prepared for college. He graduated with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan
in 1872, and received the degree of Master of Arts there
in 1876. From 1872 to 1875 he taught Latin and Greek in
the Grand Rapids High School and later engaged in
journalism, and then took the course in the Yale Divinity
School.

After finishing his theological studies he was pastor of
the Congregational Church at Ludington, Mich., where he
was ordained to the ministry July 29, 1879, and was pastor
there and at Whitewater, Wise, two years each, and of the
First Congregational Church at Muskegon, Mich., and the
First Congregational Church at Moline, 111., five years
each. Resigning from his last charge in 1896, he had
since resided in New Haven, Conn. He did much private
tutoring, and in 1897, on the death of Joseph Gile (B.A.
Dartmouth 1857) he succeeded to the principalship of the
Gile (private) Grammar School, and continued there until
1 901. He also preached in churches in the vicinity for
considerable periods, and conducted the men's class in the
Dwight Place Church. He was a member of the United
(Congregational) Church. He was a director of the
Young Men's Institute, was an active member of the Civic
Federation, and had been recently chosen a director of
the Mount Carmel Children's Home. He was a delegate
to the International Congregational Council in London in
1891, and had traveled extensively in the Holy Land and
Continental Europe.

For several years he had been connected with The
Steinert Co. as manager of its advertising department.
Under the auspices of the University, he had written a
"History of the Steinert Collection of Musical Instru-

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ments," collected and presented to the University by the
late Morris Steinert of New Haven. He was greatly
interested in mechanics, and contributed many articles to
the Popular Science Monthly, and other periodicals.

Mr. Willson died suddenly of apoplexy at his new home
in the Norwood section of Hamden, Conn., January 30,
1914, in the 63d year of his age.

He married in New Haven, October 22, 1879, Nettie
Louise, daughter of Benjamin Lott Lambert, a real estate
dealer, and Susan A. (Treat) Lambert. She survives him
with two daughters, one of them the wife of G. Albert
Thompson (B.F.A. Yale 1898), a former Instructor in
Painting in the School of the Fine Arts.

1879

Frederick William Ernst was born June 28, 1853, in
East Feliciana Parish, La. He was the son of Frederick
S. Ernst, a clergyman, and Elizabeth (Hammond) Ernst.
He was prepared for college at Covington and Danville,
Ky., and entering Dartmouth College in 1872, graduated
there in 1876. During his course in the Yale Divinity
School his home was in Boston, Mass.

After graduation he was pastor at South Hartford, N. Y.,
until 1884, and was ordained there June 30, 1883. In 1885
he received the degree of Master of Arts from Dartmouth
College. He was principal of Dow Academy, Franconia,
N. H., from 1885 to 1899. In 1900 he became principal
of the Parsonsfield Seminary, at North Parsonsfield, Me.,
and so continued until 1903. Since that time he had lived
in Dorchester, Mass., having a private school (the Univer-
sity School) in Boston. He died in Dorchester, of heart
failure, November 3, 191 2, at the age of 59 years, but was
buried in New Haven, Conn.

He married in New Haven, March 18, 1880, Hattie
Emeline, daughter of John H. Holt, a merchant, and Mary

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(Smith) Holt, who survives him with two daughters (the
elder Smith 1902) and two sons (B.A. Harvard 1910 and

1912, respectively).

1886

William Sandbrook was born in Maesteg, Wales,
November 1, 1857. His parents were James and Mary
(Rees) Sandbrook. After graduation from Bala College
in North Wales he came to this country with his classmate
Peter Roberts and entered the Yale Divinity School.

After graduation from the latter he was ordained at
Lovell, Me., September 1, 1886, and served the Congrega-
tional Church there until June, 1893. The following Sep-
tember he began a pastorate of twenty years at Salmon
Falls, in the town of Rollinsford, N. H., where his devotion
to the work of the ministry, his breadth of view, and friend-
liness won the affection of all classes in that region.

Mr. Sandbrook died at his home in Salmon Falls, June 6,

1913, after three months' illness from ursemic poisoning.
He was in his 56th year. The burial was in Rollinsford,
N. H.

He married in Lovell, Me., June 14, 1887, Carrie Corey,
daughter of Josiah Heald, a dentist of Portland, Me., and
Eliza Corey (Jones) Heald, who survives him.

1890

Robert Coit Chapin, son of Rev. Aaron Lucius Chapin,
D.D., LL.D. (B.A. Yale 1837), who was president of Beloit
College from its beginning in 1849 until 1886, was born in
Beloit, Wise, January 4, 1863. His mother was Fanny
L., daughter of Robert Coit of New London, Conn. He
graduated from Beloit College as Valedictorian in 1885,
and then taught a year in the High School at Beloit. He
began the study of theology in the Chicago Theological

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Seminary, and entered the Yale Divinity School in the
Middle class. In 1888 he received the degree of Master
of Arts from Beloit, and the next year interrupted his
theological course to become Instructor in civil polity at
Beloit. After finishing his course, he was Professor
of History in Drury College from 1890 to 1892, and
since then had been Professor of Political Economy
in Beloit College, and since 1896 also Secretary of the
Faculty, In 1910 he was acting Dean of the College. He
spent the year 1904-05 at the University of Berlin, and
during a year's leave of absence in 1906-07 studied in
Columbia University. In 1909, after two years of research
work for the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City,
he received from Columbia University the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy. The results of his investigation
were published in 1910 in a volume entitled "The Stand-
ard of Living among Workingmen's Families in New York
City." He was a member of the American Economic
Association, American Sociological Society, and the Ameri-
can Historical Association. In January, 1907, he was
elected secretary of the New York State Conference of
Charities and Corrections.

While spending his vacation at Whitefield, N. H., Pro-
fessor Chapin died of pneumonia, September 12, 1913, at
the age of 50 years. For many years he had been a mem-
ber of the First Congregational Church in Beloit, and had
served it as deacon and trustee.

He married at Springfield, Mo., in 1907, Winogene,
daughter of Ethelbert and Mary Cooper (Alexander)
Grabill, who survives him. They had no children.

1899

David Yeretsian Moor was. born at Moosh, Turkey in
Asia, December 27, 1869. His name was earlier written
David Moorad Yeretsian. He received from his parents

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a Christian training, and came to America in 1889 to
prepare for the ministry. He worked his way through
Mount Hermon (Mass.) School and Williams College,
receiving from the latter the degree of Bachelor of Arts
in 1896.

He then entered the Yale Divinity School, and upon
graduation preached in North Dakota at Rose Valley and
Williston, being ordained in 1900, and from 1901 to 1903
was pastor at Ridgeville, Ind. He was then pastor at
Odell, 111., until 1910, and at Glenwood, Minn., the next
two years. In November, 1912, he was called to St. Peters-
burg, Fla., and died there after an illness of several months,
February 25, 1914, at the age of 44 years.

He married at Willington, Conn., July 24, 1901, Lena,
daughter of John F. Whitford. She survives him with a
daughter.

1904

George Edwin Porter, son of Joseph and Mary (Wood)
Porter, was born in Peterboro, in the province of Ontario,
Canada, October 2, 1874. He was prepared for college at
Peterboro Collegiate Institute, and received the degree of
Bachelor of Arts from Toronto University in 1901.

A year later he entered the Middle Class in the Yale
Divinity School, and upon graduating from there he spent
a year in Harvard University. He was ordained at Glen-
wood, Minn., in December, 1905. In 1907 he returned to
Harvard University, and in 1908 he received there the
degree of Master of Arts and there also in 1910 the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy. In 19 10- 11 he was Instructor
in English in Amherst College and in September, 191 1,
became Professor of English in Franklin and Marshall
College, Lancaster, Pa. After a service of only a year
during which his rare scholarship and culture were appar-
ent, Professor Porter died of tuberculosis at the Lancaster

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General Hospital, November 20, 1912, at the age of 38
years.

He married at Peterboro, July 18, 191 2, Susan Margaret,
daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Gallon) Campbell,
who survives him.

1911

Christopher Hubert Yearwood was born February 28,
1878, at Georgetown, British Guiana, and was the son of
Thomas Richard Yearwood, a cabinet maker and Metho-
dist local preacher, and Louisa Prescod (Isley) Yearwood.
He attended Queens College in Georgetown and, was also
trained for the Methodist ministry, and ordained. Coming
to the United States, he preached three years in the Loring
Street Church, Springfield, Mass. In 1906 While preaching
in Chelsea, Mass., he began a course of medical study in
the Boston College of Physicians and Surgeons. The fol-
lowing year he was a Second Year student in the Harvard
Medical School, but removed to New Haven, and entered
the Yale Divinity School as a special student, the next
year beginning the regular course. From 1908 to 191 1 he
preached at the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
in New Haven.

After graduation he was pastor of the Bethel African
Methodist Episcopal Church in New Bedford, Mass., and
since March, 191 2, had been pastor of the church of the
same name in Providence, R. I.

He was a trustee of Wilberforce University in Ohio,
a member of the General Conference of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church, and general secretary of the
New England Conference of his denomination.

Mr. Yearwood died after an illness of four months from
paralysis at Providence, October 29, 1913. He was 35
years of age and not married. His mother and two
brothers, one of whom studied law in McGill University
in Montreal, survive him.

YALE FOREST SCHOOL
1909

Addison Wetherald Williamson, son of Rev. Harvey
R. Williamson, a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and Mary Matilda (Smith) Williamson, was born
March 7, 1884, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

He prepared for college at Lincoln High School, Cleve-
land, O., and received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy
from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1907.

After graduation from the Forest School his professional
work was entirely with the United States Forest Service,
in which he became assistant July 1, 1909, and was assigned
to the Office of State and Private Cooperation. During
the field season of that year he was engaged in a cooperative
study of forest conditions in North Carolina, and the fol-
lowing spring, with Alfred K. Chittenden (Ph.B. Yale
1900) studied forest taxation in Wisconsin. Later in 1910
he investigated cottonwood culture in the Mississippi Val-
ley. February 1, 191 1, he was transferred to the newly
established Office of Forest Management in the East, and
spent most of his time while in Washington until April,
19 1 3, in charge of that Office. For several months he
devoted himself to investigating the results of sowing and
planting in the East. In 19 12 he completed the cotton-
wood study begun two years before, the report of which
he prepared for a Bulletin of the Department of Agri-
culture. In connection with other work in the Forest
Service he examined private timberlands and Government
military and naval reservations, with recommendations for
their management. He was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.

Mr. Williamson married, February 19, 1910, in Annap-
olis, Md., Mary Elizabeth, daughter of William and Anne
(Senogles) Mylchreest, of Middletown, Conn.

He died of cancer at his wife's home in Middletown July
29, 19 1 3, at the age of 29 years. Mrs. Williamson survives
him. A brother (B.A. Wesleyan Univ. 1909) is living.

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1896

Theodate Louise Smith, daughter of Thomas and
Philomela (Hall) Smith, was born April 11, 1859, at
Augusta, Me. She received the degree of Bachelor of
Arts from Smith College in 1882 and of Master of Arts
there in 1884. From 1882 until January, 1884, she taught
in the High School at Gardiner, Me., then in the Brooklyn
Heights (N. Y.) Seminary until 1886, and the following-
three years in the Mount Vernon Seminary, in Washington,
D. C.

In 1895-96 she was a student in Clark University. After
receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Yale
she returned to the Mount Vernon Seminary, and during
the year 1896-97 was also a student in the Catholic
University in Washington.

From 1902 to 1909 she was research assistant to Presi-
dent Hall at Clark University, from 1902-04 working under
a Carnegie grant, during part of the next year on an
Estabrook grant, and spending several months in study
in the University of Berlin. Since 1909 she had been
Lecturer and Librarian of the Children's Institute of Clark
University. She had a large and valuable collection of
material regarding child welfare, which with her own
extended knowledge she placed at the service of everyone
interested.

Dr. Smith died of diabetes after a day's illness at
Worcester, February 16, 191 4, in the 55 th year of her age.
A brother, Rev. Ernest Charles Smith (B.D. Harvard
1888), survives her.

1902

Edward Arthur Sumner was born in Rome, N. Y.,
November 3, 1857, the son of John Alexander and Helen

1896-1902 7X3

(Brooks) Sumner. He graduated from Wesleyan Univer-
sity as a Bachelor of Arts in 1878, and as Master of Arts
in 1 88 1. The years intervening between these degrees he
was principal of the Portland (Conn.) School. From 1878
to 1882 he studied law with Hon. Moses Culver in Middle-
town, and from 1881 to 1883 was also principal of the
Gildersleeve High School in Portland. He was admitted
to the Connecticut bar in 1882, from 1883 to 1885 practiced
his profession in Springfield, Mass., and from 1885 to
1892 in Minneapolis, Minn. Since 1892 he had practiced
in New York City, making a specialty of corporation law.
He was counsel of Sir Thomas Lipton in the Spanish-
American war relief fund. He was greatly interested in
yachting, and at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration was
division commander of the sixth squadron.

During the year 1901-02 Mr. Sumner was a student of
economics in the Yale Graduate School, and received the
degree of Master of Arts in 1902.

He died after a brief illness from tumor on the brain
at his home in New York City, September 22, 1913, in
the 56th year of his age.

He married, January 29, 1885, at Northampton, Mass.,
Martha, daughter of Luther and Sarah (Clapp) Dickinson
of Northampton, Mass., who survives him with a son,
who was a member of the Academical Class of 1914 until
the death of his father, and a daughter. One son died in
infancy.

Kaiei Yamasaki, son of Yorataro and Sada Yamasaki,
was born September 9, 1876, at Nakakanbaragori, Niigata-
ken, Japan. He graduated from Keio University, Tokyo,
Japan, in 1901, and took the degree of Master of Arts there.

After a year of study in philosophy in Yale University
he received the degree of Master of Arts, and since then
had been engaged in the retail business of J. Honda of

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New York City, and in 191 1 became manager of Kondo &
Co. there.

He died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 6,
19 1 3, at the age of nearly 37 years.

He married in Brooklyn, June 4, 1908, Nellie, daughter
of William Richard Inshaw, a civil engineer, and Anne
(Manton) Inshaw. She survives him with a son.

In Japan he was a priest and member of the Sodo sect
of Buddhism. After studying Christianity in this country
his views on religion changed considerably, but he did not
attach himself to a particular church.

1909

Kenzaburo Okamoto, son of Teikyu Okamoto, a
prominent business man of Tokyo, Japan, was born in that
city April 20, 1883. He graduated from the college of
Literature of Keiogijuku University in 1907, and then
spent two years in the Yale Graduate School, making a
special study of English.

Upon receiving the degree of Master of Arts he returned
to Japan, where after a long illness he died at the Red
Cross Hospital in Tokyo, October 1, 1912. He was 29
years of age.

Edgar Hammond Olmstead, son of Leonard Sylvester
and Sarah A. (Hammond) Olmstead, was born at Cam-
den, Mich., April 15, 1870. He was prepared for college
in Clinton, N. Y., received the degree of Bachelor of Arts
from the Tri-State Normal College, Angola, Ind., in 1893,
and that of Bachelor of Divinity from Oberlin College in
1899.

After teaching in Granby (Conn.) Academy and in
Branch County, Mich., he was pastor at Lyons, O., from
1893 to 1895, and following his divinity course at Oberlin

1902-09 7i5

and ordination in 1899, ne was at tne West Madison Ave-
nue Church in Cleveland, O., till 1901. The next year he
was studying at Hiram College. From 1902 to 1904 he
was at Granby, Conn., and 1904 to 1908 he was pastor of
the Congregational Church at Kensington, Conn., where he
was also helpful in educational matters.

After a year of study of Biblical Literature in the Yale
Graduate School, Mr. Olmstead received the degree of
Master of Arts in 1909.

Since November, 1908, he had been pastor of the Con-
gregational Church at Greenfield Hill, Conn., and during
that time the church had received large accessions to its
membership. He contributed a few brief articles to
religious papers.

Mr. Olmstead died at Greenfield Hill, Conn., of pneu-
monia January 25, 1914, in the 44th year of his age.

He married at Oberlin, O., June 7, 1899, Minnie L.,
daughter of George Smith and Narcissa Adelaide (Pope)
Pay. She survives him with three children.

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ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT

(Yale College)

Class

Nam and Age

Place and

Time of Death

1840

Garwood H. Attwood, 95

Waterbury, Conn.

Feb. 1,

14

1843

George A. Bryan, 93

Norwich, Conn.

Oct. 15,

13

1845

George W. Goddard, 89

Rome, Italy.

Oct. 2,

13

1847

Frederick A. Copp, 89

Wakefield, N. H.

Nov. 6,

13

1847

Alfred Mills, 86

Morristown, N. J.

Dec. 13,

13

1849

John L. Hanes, 89

Paterson, N. J.

June 17,

13

1849

Charles A. L. Richards, 83

Providence, R. I.

March 20,

14

1849

JohnWillard,87

Chicago, 111.

Dec. 1,

13

I85I

John B. Brooks, 82

Minneapolis, Minn.

May 4,

14

1851

Jonathan L. Jenkins, 82

Pittsfield, Mass.

Aug. 15,

13

1853

J. Stoddard Johnston, 80

Clayton, Mo.

Oct. 4,

13

1853

Charles L. Thomas, 82

Providence, R. I.

Nov. 26,

13

1854

Henry E. Howland, 78

New York City.

Nov. 7,

13

1854

William H. Palmer, 83

North Woodstock, Conn. Aug. 3,

12

1855

Alfred B. Miller, 82

New Haven, Conn.

Aug.13,

13

1855

John L. Mills, 80

Marietta, 0.

June 14,

13

1855

Charles R. Palmer, 79

New Haven, Conn.

April 22,

14

1856

Henry B. Brown, 77

Bronxville, N. Y.

Sept. 4,

13

1856

Theron Brown, 81

Newtonville, Mass.

Feb. 14,

14

1858

Chauncey S. Kellogg, 76

New Orleans, La.

Jan. 31,

M

1858

Brinley D. Sleight, 78

Sag Harbor, L. I., N. Y. Dec. 10,

13

i860

Joseph Clay, 75

Brunswick, Ga.

March 26,

14

i860

Oliver A. Kingsbury, 74

Memphis, Tenn.

May 5,

14

i860

Josiah E. Kittredge, 77

Rochester, N. Y.

Dec. 21,

13

i860

Xenophon Wheeler, 78

Chattanooga, Tenn.

Jan. 30,

14

l86l

Leonard F. Morse, 73

New Haven, Conn.

Jan. 9,

14

l86l

Edward P. Payson, 73

Tacoma, Wash.

Sept. 22,

13

1862

Samuel R. Blatchley, 74

New Haven, Conn.

Feb. 11.

14

1862

Edward B. Coe, 71

New York City.

March 19,

14

1862

Melville C. Day, 74

Florence, Italy.

Dec. 29,

13

1862

Heman P. DeForest, 74

Lexington, Mass.

Jan. 21,

14

1862

Harrison B. Freeman, 73

Baltimore, Md.

July 4,

13

SUMMARY

717

1862

John S. Robert, 73 Center Moriches, L. I., N. Y.

May 5, '

1862

Levi P. Treadwell, 77

New York City.

Nov. 13, '

1863

Henry P. Robinson, 72

Guilford, Conn.

June 5, '

1863

Edward P. Sheldon, 74

New York City.

March 18, '

1864

William E. Barnett, 68

Pinehurst, N. C.

Oct. 10, '

1864

Joseph Lanman, 73

Rochester, Minn.

Sept. 11,'

1864

David B. Lyman, 74

Chicago, 111.

April 8, '

1864

George S. Merriam, 71

Springfield, Mass.

Jan. 22, '

1864

Charles G. Rockwood, 70

Caldwell, N. J.

July 2, '

1864

Job Williams, 72

Hartford, Conn.

March 15, '

1865

Lyman D. Gilbert, 68

Harrisburg, Pa.

May 4, '

1865

Francis W. Kittredge, 70

Boston, Mass.

Nov. 24, '

1865

William Stone, 71

South Yarmouth, Mass. Oct. 27, '

1865

William C. Witter, 71

New York City.

March 27, '

1866

Cassius M. Clay, 67

Paris, Ky.

Nov. 28, »

1866

Gustavus P. Davis, 69

Hartford, Conn.

April 1, '

1867

Joseph J. Brooks, 68

near Shields, Pa.

April 10, '

1867

Wallace Bruce, 69

De Funiak Springs, Fla. Jan. 2, '

1867

Benjamin Smith, 72

Moorestown, N. J.

May 18, '

1868

Joseph S. Burns, 71

Ashmont, Mass.

July 26, '

1868

William Durant, 67

Wellesley, Mass.

March 1, '

1869

John C. Eno, 66

New York City.

Feb. 28, '

1869

John C. Grant, 65

Chicago, 111.

March 21, '

1869

Mitchell D. Rhame, 67

Minneapolis, Minn.

Dec. 9, '

1869

Rufus B. Richardson, 68

Cli f ton Springs, N.Y.

March 10, '

1870

Charles H. Strong, 63

Milledgeville, Ga.

Jan. 21, '

187 1

William T. Hazard, 63

Chicago, 111.

Feb. 3, '

1871

Isaac O. Woodruff, 65

New York City.

July 12, '

1872

Greene Kendrick, 62

West Haven, Conn.

Sept. 21, '

1872

James Oakey, 63

Loma Linda, Calif.

March 9, '

1873

Leonard B. Almy, 62

Norwich, Conn.

Sept. 27, '

1874

Charles W. Benton, 61

Minneapolis, Minn.

Nov. ii,'

1874

George S. Brown, 62

New Britain, Conn.

Dec. 8, '

1874

Frank Jenkins, 62

New York City.

Sept. 16, '

1874

James M. Townsend, 61

Mill Neck, L. I., N. Y

. Oct. 31, '

1875

Dwight A. Jones, 59

St. Louis, Mo.

Dec. 7, ■

1876

John Porter, 59

Montclair, N. J.

Nov. 20, '

1876

George M. Rogers, 59

Chicago, 111.

April 15, '

1876

George L. Sterling, 57

New York City.

Aug. 8, '

1879

Timothy L. Woodruff, 56

New York City.

Oct. 12, *■

1880

William D. Barnes, 57

New York City.

Jan. 2, '

1880

Preston King, 56

Minneapolis, Minn.

Jan. 18, '

1880

Alfred B.Nichols, 61

Concord, Mass.

Sept. 9, '

7i8

YALE

COLLEGE

i88o

Edward P. Noyes, 55

Winchester, Mass.

Sept. 20, ']

1880

John B. Porter, 56

Elgin, 111.

Oct. 30, ']

1881

Edwin M. Adee, 56

Cromwell, Conn.

March 12, ']

1881

Richard H. McDonald, 59

San Francisco, Calif.

Sept. 23, ':

1881

Henry C. White, 57

New Haven, Conn.

Feb. 7, ':

1883

William H. Merrill, 52

Pepperell, Mass.

Dec. 2, ']

1883

Joseph R. Parrott, 54

Lake Thompson, Me.

Oct. 13, '

1883

David F. Read, 52

Bridgeport, Conn.

April 13, '

1884

Maxwell Evarts, 50

Windsor, Vt.

Oct. 7, '

1884

Frank D. Trowbridge, 52

New Haven, Conn.

Nov. 5, '

1885

Francis J. Vernon, 49

New York City.

Feb. 16, '

1886

John C. Adams, 51

Oakland, Calif.

Nov. 8, '

1886

Elliot C. Lambert, 50

New York City.

April 8, '

1887

Allan B. Bonar, 49

Detroit, Mich.

Aug. 16, '

1887

Charles M. Hinkle, 50

Hot Springs, Va.

June 7, -

1888

Frank V. Millard, 46

Tarrytown, N. Y.

Feb. 4, ■

1888

Edward Pond, 47

At sea.

Aug. 9, !

1889

William P. Aiken, 47

Brattleboro, Vt.

Dec. 15, !

1891

William C. Rhodes, 44

Cleveland, O.

Feb. 5, '

1892

Percy Finlay, 41

Memphis, Tenn.

Sept. 14, '

1893

Thomas A. Gardiner, 42

Saranac Lake, N. Y.

Oct. 30, '

1895

Ralph H. Burns, 40

Ashland, Ore.

June 30, '

1895

Charles B. Cheyney, 40

Washington, D. C.

June 6, '

1895

Francis J. Harris, 43

New York City.

Jan. 26, '

1895

Isaac M. Jordan, 41

Chicago, 111.

Jan. 14, 1

1895

John R. Williams, 42

Chicago, 111.

Jan. 21, '

1897

James P. Sawyer, 41

New York City.

April 21,'

1897

Robb deP. Tytus, 37

Saranac Lake, N. Y.

Aug. 14, '

1899

Henry C. Andrews, 36

Fishkill, N. Y.

Jan. 16, '

1899

Francis J. Hall, 35

Peking, China.

May 26, '

1899

Huntington Mason, 39

Chicago, 111.

May 25, ■

1900

Allister M. Bell, 37

Caldwell, N. J.

Jan. 28, '

1900

John H. Campbell, 36

East Haven, Conn.

July 27, '

1901

John B. Chamberlin, 32

Mile Post 114, B.C.

June 23, \

1902

Harry B. Chamberlin, 31

Atlanta, Ga.

Nov. 14, '

1902

Howard G. McDowell, 33

Cohoes, N. Y.

April 28, '

1902

Jay M. Pickands, 33

Cleveland, O.

Nov. 18, '

1902

Laurance B. Rand, 32

Cedarhurst, L. I., N. Y. Feb. 4, '

1903

Arsene L. Trenholm, 33

Seivern, S. C.

March 5, '

1908

Reginald W. Catlin, 27

Brooklyn, N. Y.

March 2, '

1909

John B. Perrin, 26

Pasadena, Calif.

Oct. 29, '

1910

Erford W. Chesley, 26

Worcester, Mass.

July 27/

SUMMARY

719

YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL

1853

Charles E. Sanford, 83

Bridgeport, Conn.

April 26, '14

i857

Ezra Smith, 77

Judd's Corners, Mich.

Dec. 21, '13

1861

Horace P. Porter, 73

Butler, Mo.

Dec. 23, '12

1862

Robert G. Hassard, 72

Thomaston, Conn.

Jan. 21/14

1864

John D. Brundage, 78

Goshen, Conn.

Oct. 21/13

1865

William A. Mitchell, 70

Brooklyn, N. Y.

Sept. 26, '13

187 1

Robert Lauder, 73 Noroton Heights, Conn.

May 31, '13

1876

Laban H. Johnson, 67

Terryton, Kans.

July 26, '13

1888

Edward C. Beach, 46

Milford, Conn.

June 2, '13

1893

Martial A. Scharton, 39

New York City.

July 18/12

1898

William W. Markoe, 39

Charlestown, N. H.

Oct. 19, '13

1903

Cleveland Ferris, 35

New York City.

Aug. 21, '13

1905

Charles R. Pratt, 33

Bridgeport, Conn.

July 16, '13

1912

Forrest G. Crowley, 33

New Haven, Conn.

Oct. 8, '13

YALE LAW SCHOOL

1851

Charles S. Andrews, 90

New Britain, Conn.

Oct. 7, '13

1859

Richard Z. Johnson, 76

Wasserburg, Bavaria

Sept. 10, '13

1866

Andrew C. Lippitt, 68

New London, Conn.

Feb. 24/13

1872

Henry G. Newton, 70

New Haven, Conn.

March 21, '14

1876

Elj en K. Wilcox, '64

Cleveland, 0.

Feb. 3, '14

1881

Allan W. Paige, '59

Chicago, 111.

July 27, '13

1883

Charles W. Brown, 52

Rapid City, S. D.

Feb. 21, *I2

1883

William P. Niles, 72

Fair Haven, Conn.

April 23, '14

1891

George L. Armstrong, 80

New Haven, Conn.

April 27, '14

1891

Susuma Uchida, 45

Takahashi, Japan

Aug. 19, '12

1893

Bernard Gilpin, 57

Baltimore, Md.

Feb. 2, '14

1893

James S. McCall, 41

York, Pa.

Oct. 3. '13

1894

Richard H. Tyner, 48

New Haven, Conn.

May 6, '14

1895

Louis E. Conner, 39

Cincinnati, 0.

March 13, '13

1912

Harry P. Mayer, 23

near Camby, Ind.

April 26, '14

MASTERS OF LAWS

.

1897

Charles A. VanVleck, 52

Des Moines, la.

Aug. s, '13

1913

Arthur R. Dearth, 23

Des Moines, la.

Dec. 3, '13

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL

1854

Alonzo T. Mosman, 78

Washington, D. C.

June 9, '13

1864

Robert L. Brownfield, 69

Atlantic City, N. J.

April 13, '13

1864

Frederick Farnsworth, 71

New London, Conn.

Feb. 23, '14

1868

Lyman B. Parshall, 67

Canton, la.

May 9, '13

1869

Charles H. Pope, 64

Moline, 111.

May 23, '13

720

1870
1 871

1874
1878
1883
1887
1888
1892
1894
1894
1895
1895
1896
1898
1903
1903
1905
1905
1905
1906
1907
1907
1909
1909
1911

1875
1876
1878
1879
1886
1890
1899
1904
1911

1909

1896

1902

YALE

COLLEGE

William D. Marks, 64

Plattsburg, N. Y.

Jan. 7, '

14

Alfred L. Moore, 62

Rome, Italy

Feb. 24,

13

William McGrath, 65

East Haven, Conn.

Feb. 27,

14

Frank T. Moorhead, 56

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Dec. 14,

13

David M. Pratt, 52

Elmira, N. Y.

Nov. 25,

13

Erwin S. Sperry, 47

Bridgeport, Conn.

Jan. 31,

M

Charles K. Shelton, 49

Waterbury, Conn.

Aug. 15,

13

Wilbur F. Day, 42

New Haven, Conn.

May 25,

14

Ralph Albree, 41

New York City

Feb. 16,

M

Meyer Wolodarsky, 51

Brooklyn, N. Y.

March 6,

14

Robert Anderson, 39

Cincinnati, O.

Oct. 28, '

13

Frederick D. Sherman, 42

Brooklyn, N. Y.

April 30,

M

Theodore E. Smith, 39

Weehawken, N. J.

Sept. 2,

13

Paul D. Kelley, 37

Berryville, Va.

May 4,

13

George F. Chatfield, 32

Lawrenceville, 111.

Jan. 8,

14

Charles B. Hoadley, 30

Hostolipaquillo, Mexicc

April 26,

14

Alexander S. McLean, 30

Danbury, Conn.

Dec. 4,

13

Herbert V. Olds, 30

Hartford, Conn.

Dec. 2,

13

Richard C. Whittier, 30

Brookline, Mass.

Oct. 26,

13

Joseph C. Rathborne, 30

Harvey, La.

Feb. 21,

M

Clifford A. Upson, 27

New Haven, Conn.

March 31,

13

Robert Wallace, 28

Monrovia, Calif.

Jan. 17,

14

Julian P. Burr, 23

Chicago, 111.

Nov. 26,

13

Emanuel L. Dreyfus, 25

Santa Barbara, Calif.

Sept. 4,

13

Albert B. Coxe, 22

Pasadena, Calif.

Oct. 8,

13

YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL

Andrew L. Biittner, 68

Loxley, Ala.

Nov. 4,

13

Doane R. Atkins, 68

South Haven, Mich.

Oct. 11,

13

Theodore B. Willson, 62

Hamden, Conn.

Jan. 30,

14

Frederick W. Ernst, 59

Dorchester, Mass.

Nov. 3, ;

12

William Sandbrook, 55

Salmon Falls, N. H.

June 6, '

13

Robert C. Chapin, 50

Whitefield, N. H.

Sept. 12, '

13

•David Y. Moor, 44

St. Petersburg, Fla.

Feb. 25, '

H

George E. Porter, 38

Lancaster, Pa.

Nov. 20, '

12

Christopher H. Yearwood

, 35 Providence, R. I.

Oct. 29, '

13

YALE FOREST SCHOOL

Addison W. Williamson, 29 Middletovvn, Conn.

July 29, '

13

YALE GRADUATE SCHOOL

Theodate L. Smith, 54

Worcester, Mass.

Feb. 16,

14

Edward A. Sumner, 55

New York City

Sept. 22, '

13

SUMMARY 721

1902 Kaiei Yamasaki, 37 Brooklyn, N. Y. Sept. 6, '13

1909 Kenzaburo Okamoto, 29 Tokyo, Japan Oct. 1, '12

1909 Edgar H. Olmstead, 43 Greenfield Hill, Conn. Jan. 25, '14

The number of deaths recorded this year is 193 and the average
age of the 117 graduates of the Academical Department is nearly
62 years. »

The following graduates have also died, but the information
desired regarding them could not be obtained in time for the
insertion of sketches in the present Record:
1855 William Howell Taylor died at Richmond, Va., May 11,

1914.
1892/ Morgan John Flaherty died at Detroit, Mich., February 7,

1914.
1894 m Edward Brooks Marston died in Lowell, Mass., February

27, 1913.

The oldest living graduate of the Academical Department is :
Class of 1839, David Fisher Atwater, of Springfield, Mass., born

October 29, 1817. He is also the oldest living graduate of the

Medical Department, in the Class of 1842.

insriDiEix:

Members of the Divinity, Forest, Gradua
are indicated by the letters d,for., a o

Class Page

1886 Adams, John C. 632
1881 Adee, Edwin M. 622

1889 Aiken, William P. 636
1894^ Albree, Ralph 691

1873 Almy, Leonard B. 606
1895 s Anderson, Robert 692
1851 / Andrews, Charles S. 666

1899 Andrews, Henry C. 645
1 89 1 / Armstrong, George L. 673
1876 d Atkins, Doane R. 703
1840 Attwood, Garwood H. 531

1880 Barnes, William D. 618

1864 Barnett, William E. 575

1888 m Beach, Edward C. 661

1900 Bell, Allister M. 467

1874 Benton, Charles W. 608
1862 Blatchley, Samuel R. 565

1887 Bonar, Allan B. 633
185 1 Brooks, John B. 540
1867 Brooks, Toseph J. 591
1883 / Brown, Charles W. 672

1874 Brown, George S. 609
1856 Brown, Henry B. 552
1856 Brown, Theron 554
1864 s Brownfield, Robert L. 681

1867 Bruce, Wallace 592
1864 m Brundage, John D. 658
1843 Bryan, George A. 532

1875 d Btittner, Andrew L. 703

1868 Burns, Joseph S. 594
1895 Burns, Ralph H. 639
1909.? Burr, Julian P. 700

1900 Campbell, John H. 648
1908 Catlin, Reginald W. 652

1902 Chamberlin, Harry B. 649

1901 Chamberlin, John B. 649

1890 d Chapin, Robert C. 707

1903 s Chatfield, George F. 695
1910 Chesley, Erford W. 654
1895 Cheyney, Charles B. 640
1866 Clay, Cassius M. 589
i860 Clay, Joseph 558
1862 Coe, Edward B. 566

Class

895/
847

911 .?

912 m

866
862
892 s

913 mi
862
909^
868

, Law, Medical, and Scientific Schools
dp, /, m or ml, and s, respectively.

Conner, Louis E.
Copp, Frederick A.
Coxe, Albert B.
Crowley, Forrest G.

Davis, Gustavus P
Day, Melville C.
Day, Wilbur F.
Dearth, Arthur R.
DeForest, Heman P.
Dreyfus, Emanuel L.
Durant, William

8r»9 Eno, John C.

879 d Ernst, Frederick W.

884 Evarts, Maxwell

Page
677
535
701

664

590
568
690
678
569
701
595

596
706
629

864 s Farnsworth, Frederick 682
903 in Ferris, Cleveland 663

892 Finlay, Percy 638
862 Freeman, Harrison B. 570

893 Gardiner, Thomas A. 638

865 Gilbert, Lyman D. 584
893 / Gilpin, Bernard 674
845 Goddard, George W. 533
869 Grant, John C. 597

899 Hall, Francis J. 645

849 Hanes, John L. 537

895 Harris, Francis J. 641

862 m Hassard, Robert G. 657

871 Hazard, William T. 602

887 Hinkle, Charles M. 634

903 s Hoadley, Charles B. 695

854 Howland, Henry E. 545

874 Jenkins, Frank 610
851 Jenkins, Jonathan L. 540
876 m Johnson, Laban H. 661
859 / Johnson, Richard Z. 667
853 Johnston, J. Stoddard 542

875 Jones, D wight A. 611
895 Jordan, Isaac M. 641

898 s Kelley, Paul D. 694

858 Kellogg. Chauncey S. 556

INDEX

723

Class Page

1872 Kendrick, Greene 603

1880 King, Preston 618
i860 Kingsbury, Oliver A. 559

1865 Kittredge, Francis W. 585
i860 Kittredge, Josiah E. 560

1886 Lambert, Elliot C. 632

1864 Lanman, Joseph 577

1871 m Lauder, Robert 660

1866 / Lippitt, Andrew C. 668
1864 Lyman, David B. 578

1893 / McCall, James S. 675

1881 McDonald, Richard H. 623
1902 McDowell, Howard G. 650
1874 * McGrath, William 687
1905 ^ McLean, Alex. S. 696

1898 m Markoe, Willium W. 662

1870 s Marks, William D. 684

1899 Mason, Huntington 646
1912 / Mayer, Harry P. 677

1864 Merriam, George S. 580
1883 Merrill, William H. 626
1888 Millard, Frank V. 635
1855 Miller, Alfred B. 548
1847 Mills, Alfred 535
1855 Mills, John L. 549

1865 m Mitchell, William A. 659
1899 d Moor, David Y. 708

1871 s Moore, Alfred L. 686
1878 s Moorhead, Frank T. 688
1861 Morse, Leonard F. 563

1854 -y Mosman, Alonzo T. 680

1872 / Newton, Henry G. 668
1880 Nichols, Alfred B. 619
1883 / Niles, William P. 673
1880 Noyes, Edward P. 620

1872 Oakey, James 605

1909 a Okamoto, Kenzaburo 714

1905 ^ Olds, Herbert V. 697

1909 a Olmstead, Edgar H. 714

1881/ Paige, Allan W. 671

1855 Palmer, Charles R. 550
1854 Palmer, William H. 547
1883 Parrott, Joseph R. 626
1868 s Parshall, Lyman B. 683
1861 Payson, Edward P. 564
1909 Perrin, John B. 653

Class Page

902 Pickands, Jay M. 650

888 Pond, Edward 636

869 ^ Pope, Charles H. 683

904 d Porter, George E. 709

861 m Porter, Horace P. 657
876 Porter, John 612
880 Porter, John B. 621

905 m Pratt, Charles R. 664
883 s Pratt, David M. 688

902 Rand, Laurance B. 651

906 s Rathborne, Joseph C. 698

883 Read, David F. 628
869 Rhame, Mitchell D. 598
891 Rhodes, William C. 637
849 Richards, Charles A. L. 537

869 Richardson, Rufus B. 599

862 Robert, John S. 571

863 Robinson, Henry P. 573

864 Rockwood, Charles G. 581
876 Rogers, George M. 613

886 d Sandbrook, William 707
853 m Sanford, Charles E. 655
897 Sawyer, James P. 643

893 m Scharton, Martial A. 662
863 Sheldon, Edward P. 574
888 s Shelton, Charles K. 689

895 s Sherman, Frederick D. 692
858 Sleight, Brinley D. 556
867 Smith, Benjamin 593
857 m Smith, Ezra 656
8g6dp Smith, Theodate L. 712

896 .$■ Smith, Theodore E. 693

887 s Sperry, Erwin S. 689
876 Sterling, George L. 614

865 Stone, William 586

870 Strong, Charles H. 601

902 a Sumner, Edward A. 712

853 Thomas, Charles L. 544

874 Townsendjames M. 610

862 Treadwell, Levi P. 572

903 Trenholm, Arsene L. 652

884 Trowbridge, Frank D. 630

894 / Tyner, Richard H. 676

897 Tytus, Robb deP. 643

891 / Uchida, S. 674

907 ^ Upson, Clifford A. 699

724

YALE COLLEGE

Class

Page

Class

Page

1897 ml VanVleck, Charles A.

678

l89S

Williams, John R.

642

1885

Vernon, Francis J.

631

1909 for Williamson, A. W.

711

>

1878 d

Willson, Theodore B.

704

1907 s

Wallace, Robert

700

1865

Witter, William C.

587

i860

Wheeler, Xenophon

56i

1894^

Wolodarsky, Meyer

691

1881

White, Henry C.

624

1871

Woodruff, Isaac O.

602

1005^

Whittier, Richard C.

698

1879

Woodruff, Timothy L

615

1876/

Wilcox, Elj en K.

670

1849

Willard, John

539

1902 a

Yamasaki, Kaiei

713

1864

Williams, Job

583

191 1 d

Yearwood, Christ'r H

710

OBITUARY RECORD

OF

GRADUATES OF YALE UNIVERSITY

Deceased dating the year ending
JULY 1, /9/5,

INCLUDING THE RECORD OF A FEW WHO DIED PREVIOUSLY
HITHERTO UNREPORTED

[No. 5 of the Sixth Printed Series, and No. 74 of the whole Record. The
present Series consists of five numbers.]

&

OBITUARY RECORD

OF

GRADUATES OF YALE UNIVERSITY

Deceased during the year ending
July i, 191 5,

Including the Record of a few who died previously, hitherto unreported

[No. 5 of the Sixth Printed Series, and No. 74 of the whole Record.
The present Series consists of five numbers.]

YALE COLLEGE
(academical department)

Stephen Cummins Upson, B.A. 1841

Born November 9, 1823, in Lexington, Ga.
Died May 31, 1914, in Athens, Ga.

Stephen Cummins Upson, youngest and last surviving
member of the Class, was born at Lexington, Ga., Novem-
ber 9, 1823. He was the youngest son of Stephen Upson
(B.A. Yale 1804), who became an advocate of high repu-
tation in Georgia, grandson of Captain Benjamin Upson,
of Waterbury, Conn., and descended in the sixth genera-
tion from Stephen Upson, the original planter. His mother
was Hannah, youngest of the six daughters of Rev. Francis
Cummins, D.D., who was long a distinguished Presbyterian
minister in the South.

He was prepared for college at Flushing Institute, Flush-
ing, N. Y., but as he had not completed his fourteenth year
he did not enter college at the beginning of Freshman year,
but joined his Class the following January.

After graduation he spent the year 1843-44 studying
medicine with Dr. Willard Parker (B.A. Harvard 1826)
in New York, and then read law with Chief Justice Joseph

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H. Lumpkin of Georgia. Sailing in July, 1847, he spent
a year in France attending the University of Paris, but on
account of the French Revolution and the death of a mem-
ber of his family he then returned home, and practiced law
for several years in Lexington. About 1854 he removed to
New York City and resided there or in the vicinity until
about 1880, when he returned to Lexington. In 1885 he
removed with his family to Athens, Ga., which had since
been his home.

He read widely in Latin, German, and French, as well
as English, and had an unusual memory. His life was
spent mostly in the quiet of his own home, and with physical
powers unimpaired and mind clear and active he was able
to continue his customary occupations to its close. He died
of pneumonia at his home in Athens, May 31, 19 14. He
was a member of the Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Upson married Matilda, daughter of James and
Matilda (Leigh) Sanson, and had three sons and three
daughters. Mrs. Upson and all their children survive him.
His son, Francis Lewis, received the degree of Bachelor of
Engineering from the University of Georgia in 1884,
Stephen C, the degree of Bachelor of Arts there in 1890,
and Edward L. was a student in the same university. The
daughters are Esther A., Emily, and Serena. A brother,
Francis L. (B.A. Union 1832), attended the Yale School of
Law, and died in 1894.

Augustus Smith, B.A. 1842

Born January 29, 1816, in Washington, Conn.
Died July 27, 1914, in Washington, D. C.

Augustus Smith, son of Captain Amos Smith and Eunice
(Clark) Smith, was born in Washington, Conn., on January
29, 1816.

The first year after graduation he spent in teaching in his
native town, but in 1843 he returned to Yale, where he
studied in the Theological Department for two years. After
another year of teaching, he entered Andover Theological
Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1847.

During the winter of 1847-48 he taught in Manchester,
Conn., after which he preached for six months in Bethany,

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that state. He returned to Andover, Mass., in the spring
of 1849, and spent the summer at the seminary, preaching
at the same time in the vicinity. Late in the same year Mr.
Smith commenced preaching in the New Hartford (Conn.)
South Congregational Church, where he remained for about
a year and a half. After this he lived in Washington,
Conn., occasionally preaching, although he was never
ordained, teaching music in the winter, and spending his
summers in farming.

In the fall of 1868 he removed to Washington, D. C,
there entering the employ of the Internal Revenue Bureau
of the Treasury Department, where the tables for container
capacity which he worked out are still in use. At the time
of his retirement about four years ago, when the condition
of his health compelled him to give up all activities, he was
the oldest employee in the Government Civil Service.

He had been a conductor of oratorio music, and at one
time was in charge of the choir and music at the First
Presbyterian Church in Washington. He was long a mem-
ber of the First Congregational Church of that city, belong-
ing to the Business Men's Bible Class. He had never
married, and for some time had made his home with a
nephew.

Mr. Smith died in Washington, D. C, on July 27, 1914,
from infirmities incident to his advanced years. His body
was taken to Washington, Conn., for interment. A brother,
Ebenezer Clark Smith, graduated from the College in 1836.

George Edwards Hill, B.A. 1846

Born November 3, 1824, in Boston, Mass.
Died March 5, 1915, in Indianapolis, Ind.

George Edwards Hill was born in Boston, Mass., on
November 3, 1824, the son of Henry Hill, for thirty-two
years (1822-54) treasurer of the American Board of Com-
missioners for Foreign Missions. His mother was Laura,
daughter of Rev. David Porter, D.D. (B.A. Dartmouth
1784). He was prepared for college at Phillips Academy
at Andover, and entered Yale with the Class of 1845, join-
ing the Class with which he was graduated in September,
1843.

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The two years following his graduation were spent in
the study of theology at the Andover Theological Seminary,
after which he returned to New Haven to complete his
studies at Yale. He was licensed to preach in 1849, and in
June, 185 1, was ordained first pastor of the Congregational
Church at North Manchester, Conn., where he remained
for nearly two years. He then traveled in Europe and the
Orient, in company with his classmate, Chester N. Righter,
and Dr. Samuel I. Prime of the New York Observer. For
this paper he wrote frequent letters of travel during the
year 1854.

Mr. Hill was installed at Sheffield, Mass., on May 6,
1855, and after eight years' service there, accepted a call
to the Edwards Church in Saxonville, Mass. He held that
charge until March 1, 1870, when he removed to Southport,
Conn. During his pastorate in that town, a new church
edifice was built. In 1877 he entered the service of the
American Missionary Association at Marion, Ala., with
which he was connected for the next two years. His last
two pastorates were at Pittsfield, N. H., and Atkinson
Depot, near Haverhill, Mass. During the years of his
ministry two hundred and eighty-nine persons were received
on profession of faith into his churches.

He had written articles for the Congregationalist and
other publications, and had published a few sermons and
reports.

In the summer of 1914 Mr. Hill had a fall, breaking his
right arm and injuring his shoulder and head, but he
recovered quickly in spite of his advanced age. His
strength had been failing gradually, however, and he died
on March 5, 191 5, at his home in Indianapolis, Ind., where
he had lived since 1892. Burial was in Forest Hills
Cemetery, Boston.

He was married on November 19, 1850, to Julia Webster,
daughter of Chauncey Allen Goodrich (B.A. 1810), for
many years a professor at Yale, and Julia Frances (Web-
ster) Goodrich. Mrs. Hill, who was the granddaughter of
Noah Webster (B.A. 1778) and the sister of Chauncey
Goodrich (B.A. 1837) and William Henry Goodrich (B.A.
1843), died on October 14, 1851, and on May 1, 1855, Mr.
Hill was married in Exeter, N. H., to Emily, daughter of
John T. and Sarah (Folsom) Gordon, who survives him.

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There were three children by this marriage, — Henry Gor-
don, Laura Porter, and Bessie Goodrich, — all of whom are
now living.

Henry Barton Chapin, B.A. 1847

Born September 14, 1827, in Rochester, N. Y.
Died July 7, 1914, in White Plains, N. Y.

Henry Barton Chapin, son of Moses Chapin (B.A.
181 1 ), was born on September 14, 1827, in Rochester, N. Y.,
where he was prepared for Yale at the Rochester Collegi-
ate Institute. His mother was Lucy Terry, daughter of
William and Mehitabel (Terry) Barton, and widow of
Simeon Terry Kibbe (B.A. 1815). In college he was a
member of Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he was engaged in teaching until 185 1,
when he entered the Union Theological Seminary in New
York City. He studied at the Princeton Theological Sem-
inary from 1852 to 1854, being licensed to preach by the
Presbytery of New York in 1853, and ordained a year later.
The next two years were spent in mission work in New
York City, in connection with the University Place Presby-
terian Church. He held the pastorate of the Second Pres-
byterian Church of Steubenville, Ohio, from October, 1856,
until November, 1858, and that of the Third Church at
Trenton, N. J., for the following seven years.

During the year 1866 he was associate principal of the
Edgehill School at Princeton, N. J., and the next year he
became proprietor and principal of the Collegiate School
in New York City, founded in 1820 by Mr. William For-
rest. The name of this school was later changed to the
Chapin Collegiate School, and Dr. Chapin continued his
work there until his retirement in 1903. Besides his work
in the educational field, he had frequently supplied the
pulpits of churches in New York and its vicinity.

In 1868 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of
Philosophy at Princeton, and in 1891 the degree of Doctor
of Divinity was conferred upon him by the same university.
Since 187 1 he had been recording secretary of the United
States Evangelical Alliance, and he served as a delegate to
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in 1896. For thirty years he acted as chaplain of the Society
of the Cincinnati in the State of Rhode Island, of which
he was an hereditary member as the lineal representative
of his great-grandfather, Colonel William Barton, an officer
of the Rhode Island Continental Line in the Revolutionary
War, and in 1905 he became chaplain general of the
National Society of the Cincinnati. He had also been chap-
lain of the Presbyterian Home for Aged Women in New
York City, and was a member of the Sons of the Revolu-
tion. Since the death of William Peet in 1895 he had been
Secretary of the Class of 1847 at Yale. He acted as
financial agent of Princeton Seminary from January to
September, 1867.

Dr. Chapin died, from a complication of diseases, at
his summer home in White Plains, N. Y., on July 7, 1914.
Burial was at Kensico, N. Y. A service in his memory was
held in the chapel of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian
Church in New York City on October 29.

He was married on February 2.2, 1854, to Harriet Ann,
daughter of Charles and Ann (Hannah) Smith of New
York City. Mrs. Chapin died on March 15, 1914. Dr.
Chapin is survived by his five sons : Rev. Charles Brookes
Chapin, D.D. (B.A. Princeton 1876) ; Dr. Henry Dwight
Chapin (B.S. Princeton 1877, M.D. Columbia 1881) ; Wil-
liam Barton Chapin; Robert Smith Chapin, and Louis
Ward Chapin. Professor Charles H. Smith (B.A. 1865)
is a nephew of Dr. Chapin.

Edward Shaw, B.A. 1847

Born October 8, 1824, in Attleboro, Mass.
Died September 26, 1914, in Washington, D. C.

Edward Shaw was born in Attleboro, Mass., on October
8, 1824, being one of the three children of Daniel Shaw, 3d,
a sea captain, who served as a private in a Massachusetts
regiment in the War of 1812, and Salona Perry ( Wilmarth)
Shaw. After receiving his early education in his native
town, he entered Phillips Academy at Andover, whence he
came to Yale in 1843. He was a member of Phi Beta
Kappa.

After graduation he taught school in Attleboro and also
in Haddam, Conn., for about five years, and then went to

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Washington, D. C, where he had since made his home.
During the summer of 1853 he was for a time the sole
telegraphic correspondent of the Associated Press. In
August of that year he took up his work as an assistant
examiner in the Patent Office, a position which he held until
the outbreak of the Civil War, when much of the work
of the office was temporarily suspended. During the war
he was detailed to reportorial duty. He received an appoint-
ment in the War Department as a hospital steward in 1867,
and as such performed clerical duty in the surgeon gen-
eral's office until September, 1870, when he was honorably
discharged. From that time until July 15, 1908, when a
serious illness caused him to resign, he served as librarian
in the office of the surgeon general.

He was a member of the Association of the Oldest Inhabi-
tants of the District of Columbia and a charter member of
the Young Men's Christian Association of Washington.
For many years he attended the First Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Shaw died on September 26, 19 14, at his home in
Washington, from a valvular disease of the heart from
which he had suffered for five years. The burial was in
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington. He was unmarried.

Richard Gleason Greene, B.A. 1849

Born June 29, 1829, in East Haddam, Conn.
Died July 7, 1914, in New York City

Richard Gleason Greene was born in East Haddam,
Conn., on June 29, 1829, the son of Richard William and
Charlotte (Gleason) Greene, and received his early educa-
tion in the schools of Philadelphia, Pa. He entered Yale
with the Class of 1849, Dut l^t m January of his Freshman
year on account of the death of his father. In 1873 tne
honorary degree of M.A. was conferred upon him by the
University, and he was at that time enrolled with his Class.
His father, who was also given an honorary M.A. by Yale,
was widely known as a teacher and author of school books
on grammar, arithmetic, and algebra.

For about three years after leaving college Mr. Greene
was engaged in teaching, after which he studied at Amherst
College for about a year. In 1850 he entered Andover

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Theological Seminary, graduating from that institution
three years later.

During 1853-54 he was acting pastor of the First Congre-
gational Church in Springfield, Ohio, and he then served
for two years as acting pastor of the Eastern Congrega-
tional Church in New York City. His ordination took place
in 1856, and during the following year he held the pastorate
of Plymouth Church at Adrian, Mich. His next charge
(from 1858 to i860) was in East Cambridge, Mass., and
for the two years following he served a church in Brighton,
Mass. The next three years were spent in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
as acting pastor of Bedford Church, and in 1865 he went
to Orange, N. J., to supply the Orange Valley Congrega-
tional Church. From 1866 to 1874 he held the pastorate of
the North Church, Springfield, Mass., after which he
served for fourteen years as pastor of Trinity Church in
East Orange, N. J.

Since 1890 he had been engaged in literary work, having
edited the "Library of Universal Knowledge," "Inter-
national Cyclopaedia" (first edition), and the "Columbian
Cyclopaedia," the last-named including a dictionary. He
had written a number of reviews of theological and philo-
sophical works for periodicals. In 1877 he published
"Glimpses of the Coming" (the second coming of Christ).
An election sermon, entitled "Christianity a National Law,"
which he preached in Boston on January 7, 1874, before
the executive and legislative bodies of the government of
Massachusetts, was later published by the state. In 1883
he delivered in the New Jersey State House at Trenton
"An Address on the Four-hundredth Anniversary of the
Birthday of Martin Luther," — one of several addresses
assigned to representatives of different denominations.

Mr. Greene died on July 7, 1914, in New York City, his
last illness being caused by congestion of the lungs.

He was married on October 1, 1856, to Augusta, daughter
of Ferdinand W. Ostrander, M.D., and Sarah Ann
(Wright) Ostrander of Brooklyn, N. Y., whose death
occurred about a month before his own. Three children
were born to them, a daughter, Adele, and a son, Ernest,
surviving.

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Stephen Adams, B.A. 1850

Born February 28, 1829, in Fulton, N. Y.
Died March 21, 1915, in Lynchburg, Va.

Stephen Adams was born in Fulton, N. Y., on February
28, 1829, the son of John Lawson and Hannah (Russell)
Adams, and before coming to Yale, which he entered in
September, 1847, as a member of the Class of 1849, he
attended the academy at Albany, N. Y., and also studied
for a time in New York City. He interrupted his course
at Yale during 1848, but in the second term of Junior year
joined the Class of 1850, with which he was graduated.

The first few months after leaving college were spent
in teaching at a private school in Amherst County, Va.,
his family having removed to that state while he was in
college. He was then for a brief period engaged in engi-
neering with the James River & Kanawha Company, after
which he spent some time in the study of law in the office
of Mr. Robert J. Davis in Lynchburg, Va. Mr. Adams
taught for the next three years, at first as principal of Elon
Academy in Amherst, and then for two years as a tutor in
a private family.

In the fall of 1855 he was admitted to the bar in Lynch-
burg, and from that time until the outbreak of the Civil
War he practiced in Raleigh, Logan, and the adjoining
counties, in partnership with Mr. Evermont Ward. He was
one of the first to enlist for the Confederate service in that
section, and, being chosen captain of a volunteer regiment
formed at that time, he served in the field until the battle
of Winchester in September, 1864, when he was desperately
wounded while commanding the Thirtieth Virginia Bat-
talion, and was taken prisoner.

After the war he settled in Lynchburg, continuing in
practice there until his retirement in 1908. In 1879 and
1880 he represented Campbell County in the House of Dele-
gates of Virginia, and for seven years he served as judge
of the court of that county. He was a member of the
Court Street Methodist Church of Lynchburg.

Mr. Adams had been in poor health for several years,
but his death, which occurred at his home in Lynchburg,
March 21, 1915, was very sudden, heart failure being the

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immediate cause. Interment was in Spring Hill Cemetery
in Lynchburg.

On April 26, 1854, he was married to Emma Camm,
daughter of William L. and Mary (Camm) Saunders of
Lynchburg, who survives him. Of their six children, four
are living: John Lawson; William Saunders; Peter O.,
and Emma. The other two, — Stephen and Benjamin
Donald, — died in 1862 and 1872, respectively.

David Huntington Bolles, B.A. 1850

Born December 18, 1829, in Clinton, Conn.
Died February 12, 191 5, in Elmira, N. Y.

David Huntington Bolles, son of Asa Moore and Eliza-
beth (Rutty) Bolles, was born in Clinton, Conn., on Decem-
ber 18, 1829. His father, a graduate of Brown University
in 1823, practiced as a lawyer in Connecticut, and made
frequent contributions to the press. His great-grandfather
was Rev. Eliphalet Huntington, a graduate of the College
in 1759, and he was a descendant of John Eliot, the "Apostle
to the Indians." He entered Yale from Jamestown, N. Y.

After graduation he studied law in the office of Angell
& Company in Ellicottville, N. Y., and after his admission
to the bar in April, 1853, practiced for some time in that
place. He removed to Olean, N. Y., about i860, there form-
ing a law partnership with the late Charles S. Cary. Later
he had at different times as partners in that town, Messrs.
Enos C. Brooks, Charles P. Moulton, and James H. Waring.
In 1904 Mr. Bolles formed a partnership with Mr. A. L.
Elliott at Friendship, N. Y., where he practiced under the
firm name of Elliott & Bolles until his retirement in 1908.

He belonged to St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church
of Olean. For a number of years he was a leading edi-
torial writer for the Olean Times. In 1863 he was elected
to the judgeship of Cattaraugus County, N. Y., and some
years later was appointed to fill an unexpired term in the
Superior Court of the state.

In recent years his home had been in Elmira, N. Y.,
where he died on February 12, 191 5. His death, which
occurred after an illness of sixteen months, was due to
infirmities incident to his age.

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Mr. Bolles was married on November 14, 1855, to Mrs.
Eglantine E. Moulton, by whom he had two sons : Asa M.,
who died in childhood, and John Huntington, whose death
occurred about 1903. Mrs. Bolles died in 1890, and on
January 29, 1892, he was married in Olean to L. Adele,
daughter of Rodney M. and Amanda (Hull) Willis, who
survives him. There were no children by this marriage.

James Edward Estabrook, B.A. 185 1

Born October 29, 1829, in Worcester, Mass.
Died March 11, 1915, in Worcester, Mass.

James Edward Estabrook, son of James Estabrook, at
one time collector of the port of Boston, and Almira (Read)
Estabrook, was born on October 29, 1829, in Worcester,
Mass., being prepared for college in the high school in that
place. The American line of the family began with Rev.
Joseph Estabrook, born in Enfield, England, who came
to Concord, Mass., in 1660, and was graduated from Har-
vard in 1664. His grandson, Hobart Estabrook, took his
B.A. at Yale in 1736. James E. Estabrook was awarded
a Berkeley premium for excellence in Latin composition
in his Freshman year at Yale.

After graduating in 185 1 he traveled extensively in the
South and West. Upon his return he entered the Harvard
Law School, and after studying there for a time, began the
practice of law in Worcester, where for several years he
was associated with Dwight Foster (B.A. 1848), later a
justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court.

When the Civil War broke out he enlisted, and was first
appointed upon the staff of General Devens, and later served
upon the staff of General Butler. In 1862 he was compelled
by illness to resign from active service, and returned to
Worcester.

At the close of the war he entered politics, soon becoming
one of the most influential Democrats in Central Massachu-
setts ; he had at different times served as chairman of the
City, County and State Democratic committees, was for
twenty years a delegate to the National Democratic con-
ventions, had served in the state legislature, and during
President Cleveland's administrations was postmaster of the

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city of Worcester. Mr. Estabrook had also acted as presi-
dent of the City Council, and had been a member of the
School Board and a director of the Free Public Library of
Worcester. He had never married. One of his nieces is
the wife of Arthur W. Ewell (B.A. 1897, Ph.D. 1899).

Mr. Estabrook died on March 11, 1915, in the house
which had been his home for sixty years. His death was
due to diabetes and complications incident to his advanced
age. Interment was in the Rural Cemetery in Worcester.
Although he had been a great physical sufferer for years,
his infirmities preventing an active life, his mental faculties
and memory were unimpaired to within a few days of his
death. For the past twenty years he had spent his time
among the books of his extensive library.

Joel Foote Bingham, B.A. 1852

Born October II, 1827, in Andover, Conn.
Died October 18, 1914, in Hartford, Conn.

Joel Foote Bingham was born in Andover, Conn., on
October 11, 1827, the son of Cyrus and Abigail (Foote)
Bingham. He prepared for Yale at home, and in college
was awarded several Berkeley premiums for excellence in
Latin composition, as well as a number of other prizes, was
valedictorian of his Class and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduating from Yale he went to New York City,
where he became head master of a high school for boys
at the Bible House, at the same time attending Union Theo-
logical Seminary. In 1855 he was licensed to preach, being
ordained to the Congregational ministry in June of the fol-
lowing year. From 1858 to i860 he held a pastorate in
Goshen, Conn., and then went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he
preached at the Second Presbyterian Church for about a
year, later removing to Buffalo, N. Y. From there he went
to Augusta, Maine, where he was pastor of the South
Congregational Church from 1867 to 1871.

In that year he was Ordained to the priesthood of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, soon becoming rector of a
church in New Haven, Conn. From 1872 to 1875 he was
located in Portsmouth, N. H., and for the next four years
in Waterbury, Conn., as rector of St. James' Church.

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Upon the conclusion of his service in that parish, he
retired from the active ministry to enter literary work,
although for two years (1888-90), he was acting rector of
St. James' Church in New London.

He was the author of several books, including a number
of translations, one being a translation in decasyllabic Eng-
lish verse of Silvio Pellico's drama "Francesca da Rimini. "
In the "Library of the World's Best Literature," edited
by Charles Dudley Warner, the article on Pellico, as well as
those on Massilon, Petrarch, and Tasso, was written by
Mr. Bingham. He had also published numerous sermons
and articles, and had contributed extensively to magazines.
He had spent much time abroad, and throughout his life
had devoted himself to the study of foreign languages, giv-
ing especial attention to Italian, and he had become known
as one of the most distinguished Italian scholars in this
country. For ten years he served as lecturer on Italian
literature at Trinity College, from which institution he
received the honorary degree of L.H.D. in 1898. Western
Reserve University conferred the honorary degree of Doctor
of Divinity upon him in 1869.

Dr. Bingham died on October 18, 19 14, at his home in
Hartford, Conn., where he had lived since 1880, death fol-
lowing an apoplectic stroke several days before, from which
he had not regained consciousness. Burial was in the family
plot in the cemetery at Andover.

He was married in Hartford on July 14, 1857, to Susan
Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Johnson and Elizabeth Ives
(Deming) Grew of Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Bingham died
in Hartford on August 20, 1-908. They had two sons, —
Theodore Alfred (B.A. 1876) and Howard Henry Charles
(B.A. Harvard 1887), — Dotn °f whom survive.

Henry Silliman Bennett, B.A. 1853

Born March 7, 1832, in New York City-
Died March 24, 1915, in Petersham, Mass.

Henry Silliman Bennett was born in New York City on
March 7, 1832, the son of Henry Bennett, who was first
president of the New York Bible Society, an office he held
until his death, and Mary Emily (Martin) Bennett. He

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received his preparatory training at Penn Yan, N. Y., and
first entered Yale in 1848, spending two years with the
Class of 1852, and then, after a year's absence, joined the
Class of 1853, with which he was graduated.

After graduation he taught for a time at the school for
orphans conducted by Mr. Leake Watts in New York City,
but later began the study of law in that city. In 1858,
after spending a year in European travel, he entered upon
the practice of his profession in New York, being prin-
cipally engaged as a corporation lawyer.

He retired about twelve years ago, and for some time
past had made his home on "Deer Farm" in Petersham,
Mass., which he had purchased in 1892, and where he died
on March 24, 191 5, following a general breaking down in
health due to old age. He was buried in the East Cemetery
at Petersham.

' Mr. Bennett had devoted much time to literary pursuits,
being the owner of a library of three thousand volumes,
and had frequently contributed to the newspapers and to
magazines.

On June 8, 1870, he married Maria Conrey, daughter of
Ashbel Greene and Lucy (Bainbridge) Jaudon of New York
City, and granddaughter of Commodore William Bain-
bridge, who took a prominent part in the War of 1812.
Mrs. Bennett died on December 10, 1896. They had three
children, — Harry Martin, Bainbridge Jaudon, and Mary
Emily, — all of whom survive. The older son took a special
course in the Scientific School during 1894-95, while the
younger is a non-graduate member of the Class of 1896 in
the School of Law.

Edward Harland, B.A. 1853

Born June 24, 1832, in Norwich, Conn.
Died March 9, 1915, in Norwich, Conn.

Edward Harland, son of Henry and Abby Leffingwell
(Hyde) Harland, was born in Norwich, Conn., on June 24,
1832, and received his early education at the academy in
that town. His maternal ancestors were among the found-
ers of the town of Norwich, two hundred and fifty years
ago, and his grandfather, Thomas Harland, settled there

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in 1773, having come to this country from London, England,
shortly before.

After graduation he studied law for two years in Nor-
wich with John Turner Wait (Hon. M.A. 1871), being
admitted to the bar of New London County in 1855. He
continued in practice until the outbreak of the Civil War,
when he recruited a company of volunteers for three
months' service and was elected and commissioned captain
in Company D of the Third Regiment, Connecticut Vol-
unteers. He was mustered out of service with his regiment
on August 12, 1 86 1, but shortly afterwards was commis-
sioned lieutenant colonel of the Sixth Connecticut Volun-
teers. He joined the Eighth Connecticut Volunteers in
September, 1861, being mustered into its service as colonel
early the next month. In the spring of 1862 he suffered a
severe attack of typhoid fever, but was with his company
as it moved northward during the summer, being in com-
mand at the battle of Antietam. He was appointed briga-
dier general in November, 1862, and continued in service
until the close of the war, when he returned to Norwich,
and resumed the practice of law.

General Harland was twice elected to the Connecticut
House of Representatives — in 1868 and 1878; was a state
senator, president of the Senate pro tempore and a Fellow
of Yale College ex officio in 1870. He was judge of pro-
bate for the district of Norwich from 1872 to 1876, and
during 1879-80 served as adjutant general of the state
of Connecticut. From 1883 until his resignation two or
three years ago he was a member of the State Board of
Pardons.

In 1875 General Harland was chosen a director of the
Chelsea Savings Bank of Norwich, fifteen years later being
made president, an office which he filled until his death.
He had also served as president of the Aspinook Company
of Jewett City, Conn. He was one of the corporators of
the W. W. Backus Hospital, serving as the first president
of its board of trustees, and he belonged to the Century
Club of New York City and the New England Society.

Although his health had been gradually failing for several
years, his death, which was due to bronchitis and asthma,
occurred March 9, 191 5, after an illness of only four days,
in Norwich, at the family homestead, where he had always

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lived. Burial was in the Yantic Cemetery in that town.
General Harland had never married, and was the last
survivor of his family.

Charles Henry Leeds, B.A. 1854

Born January 9, 1834, in New York City-
Died November 6, 1914, in Atlantic City, N. J.

Charles Henry Leeds was born in New York City on
January 9, 1834, the son of Samuel and Mary Warren
(Mellen) Leeds, and was fitted for college at Phillips
Academy in Andover, Mass. Through his father he was
descended from Richard Leeds, who sailed from Great
Yarmouth, England, in 1637, and settled in Dorchester,
Mass. His mother was the daughter of William H. Mellen,
whose father, James Mellen, was an officer in the
Revolutionary War.

For thirty years he was engaged in mercantile business
in New York City. In 1883 he removed to Stamford,
Conn., where he had since taken a very active interest in
civic and philanthropic affairs. He was elected the first
mayor of the city in 1894, but at the close of his term
declined renomination, and retired to private life. He had
taken an active part in the management of the Stamford
Hospital and Children's Home, and had served as a trus-
tee and treasurer of the Stamford Presbyterian Church.
From 1884, when he gave up his business interests in New
York City, until 1888 he was secretary of the Stationers'
Board of Trade of New York City. He had been Secretary
of his Class at Yale since graduation.

He was married on December 21, 1865, to Sarah Perley,
daughter of William Gage and Sarah (Perley) Lambert,
and sister of his classmate, Dr. Edward W. Lambert, and
of Dr. Alfred Lambert (B.A. 1843). They had seven chil-
dren,— five sons and two daughters : Alfred (B.A. 1887) ;
Edward Lambert (Ph.B. 1888) ; Norman (Ph.B. 1895) ;
Arthur Russell (Ph.B. 1900); Ellen; Mary Warren (Mrs.
Henry F. Devans), and Howard (died August 10, 1882).

Mr. Leeds died, from nephritis and arterio sclerosis, at
Atlantic City, N. J., on November 6, 1914. A few hours
after her husband's death, Mrs. Leeds fell, breaking her

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hip, and lived but a few hours afterwards. She was buried
beside Mr. Leeds in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York.

John Denison Champlin, B.A. 1856

Born January 29, 1834, in Stonington, Conn.
Died January 8, 1915, in New York City

John Denison Champlin, whose first ancestor in this
country was Geoffrey Champlin, who settled in Aquidneck
(now Rhode Island) in 1638, and whose descendants have
taken a prominent part in the history of that state, was born
in Stonington, Conn., on January 29, 1834. Christopher
Champlin (B.A. 1810) was of the same family. John
Champlin was the son of John Denison Champlin, an early
constructor of railway lines in the West, and Sylvia (Bost-
wick) Champlin, and was a lineal descendant of Rev. James
Noyes, who served on Yale's first board of trustees.
Another ancestor was Captain George Denison, who fought
under Cromwell at the Battle of Marston Moor, and who
later became one of the most distinguished soldiers of Con-
necticut in her early settlement, being captain of the New
London County forces in King Philip's War. His pre-
paratory training was received at the Hopkins Grammar
School in New Haven. In college he was a member of
Brothers in Unity and the Ariel Boat Club.

After graduation he studied law with Gideon H. Hollis-
ter (B.A. 1840) in Litchfield, Conn., being admitted to
the bar there in April, 1859. He soon removed to Milwau-
kee, Wis., where he practiced for a short time, after which
he was located in New York City, as a member of the
firm of Hollister, Cross & Champlin.

In December, i860, he went to Louisiana, intending to
practice in New Orleans, but soon after the outbreak of
the Civil War he returned to the North. He became asso-
ciate editor of the Bridgeport (Conn.) Evening Standard
in the spring of 1864, and about a year later established the
Sentinel, a. Democratic weekly, in Litchfield, editing it until
1869, when he sold it and removed to New York City,
where he had since been engaged in literary work.

For a time he was connected with Harper & Brothers, as
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"Fox's Mission to Russia" (compiled from the journal
of J. E. Loubat) in 1873 ; in April of the same year he was
chosen a member of the staff of revisers of Appleton's
"American Cyclopaedia," and for the next two years was
one of the corps of editors, having special charge of the
illustrations and maps. Later he assisted in editing an
abridged edition of the same work. He was the author of
numerous books for young people, including the well-
known and widely used "Young Folks' Cyclopaedia" series.
With his cousin, Arthur E. Bostwick (B.A. 1881), he wrote
"Young Folks' Cyclopaedia of Games and Sports" (one
of this series) in 1890. From 1881 to 1890 he was engaged
as editor of Scribner's art encyclopaedias. An account of
his experiences on a coaching trip through southern Eng-
land in 1884 as the guest of Andrew Carnegie, whose
literary adviser he was for several years, was published two
years later by the Scribner's, under the title: "Chronicle
of the Coach: Charing Cross to Ilfracombe." During
1892-94 he was an associate editor of the "Standard
Dictionary," and in 1893 he was one of the three writers
(with Rossiter Johnson and George Cary Eggleston)
selected by the Authors Club to edit "Liber Scriptorum,"
a unique volume containing contributions by more than
a hundred members of the club, among them some of
the most distinguished literary men in America and Europe.
He was one of the writers selected to contribute copyrighted
articles to the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." He wrote the
article on South College in William L. Kingsley's (B.A.
1843) sketch of the history of Yale College, and a chapter
on the music of two centuries for the "Memorial History
of New York," and for a number of years contributed the
art article in Appleton's "Annual Cyclopaedia." He had
edited a group of the orations, addresses, and speeches of
his classmate, Chauncey M. Depew, published in eight vol-
umes in 1910, and two years later prepared "A Hundred
Families of the Seventeenth Century in England and New
England," which remains unpublished. The Forum and
the Popular Science Monthly, as well as numerous other
periodicals, had received many contributions from his pen.
He belonged to the New York Genealogical and Bio-
graphical Society and the New England Historical Society,
as well as to a number of foreign genealogical societies,

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and was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
He also belonged to the Authors Club, the Barnard Club,
and the Century Association, and was a founder of the
Aldine Club. In 1866 he was a candidate for the Connect-
icut Senate on the Democratic ticket. He received the
degree of M.A. from Yale in that year.

Mr. Champlin died suddenly, from cerebral hemorrhage,
at his home in New York City on January 8, 191 5. His
body was taken to Litchfield, Conn., for burial.

His marriage took place in that town on October 8, 1873,
to Franka Eliza, daughter of the late Captain George Muzal-
lah Colvocoresses of the United States Navy and Eliza
Freelon (Halsey) Colvocoresses, and sister of the present
Admiral George P. Colvocoresses, whose son, George M.
Colvocoresses, graduated at Yale in 1900. Mrs. Champlin
survives him with their son, John Denison Champlin, Jr.,
a non-graduate member of the Class of 1897 S.

Wyllys Seymour King, B.A. 1856

Born December 15, 1834, in St. Louis, Mo.
Died June 17, 1914, in Bay View, Mich.

Wyllys Seymour King was born in St. Louis, Mo., on
December 15, 1834, the son of Wyllys and Eliza Ann
(Smith) King, and received his preparation for college at
Wyman's Classical School in his native town. Entering
Yale in 185 1, he joined the Class of 1856 in Sophomore year.

The four years immediately following graduation he
spent in the wholesale dry goods business with his father's
firm of Wyllys King & Company in St. Louis. In March,
i860, he became connected with the Insurance Department
of Missouri as an accountant and examiner, later holding
the position of actuary. From 1883 to 1907 he was in the
employ of the American Manufacturing Company.

Mr. King died, from arterio sclerosis, in Bay View, Mich.,
on June 17, 1914. Burial was in Belief ontaine Cemetery,
St. Louis.

His marriage took place on October 18, 1865, to Lucy,
daughter of James and Katherine (Hathaway) Graham of
St. Louis, who survives him. Eight children were born to
them: Katherine Graham; Wyllys; Caroline Grier (Mrs.

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Arthur B. Ambler) ; Henry Graham (died October 29,
1875); Edward Charles; Lucy Graham (Mrs. John Jay
Hamilton) ; Robert Grier (died March 17, 1886), and
Benjamin Arthur.

Samuel Lyman Pinneo, B.A. 1856

Born September 21, 1835, in Goshen, Conn.
Died April 3, 1915, in Newark, N. J.

Samuel Lyman Pinneo was born in Goshen, Conn., Sep-
tember 21, 1835, his parents being James B. and Eliza
(Lyman) Pinneo. He entered Yale in 1852 from Newark,
N. J.

He had decided to prepare for the ministry, and after
spending a short time in the West directly after graduation,
and teaching for a brief period in Newark, N. J., he entered
Union Theological Seminary in the autumn of 1857. Leav-
ing there the next spring, he went abroad, and traveled in
Europe, Egypt, and the Orient for about six months. Upon
his return to this country, he resumed his theological
studies, but was compelled to discontinue them after a short
time, on account of poor health. In i860 he went to
St. Louis, Mo., where he was for a time connected with
the wholesale sugar and tea house of Smith, Wood & Com-
pany. While in Missouri he had also turned his attention
to farming to a slight extent.

In 1872 he became engaged in the jewelry manufacturing
business in Newark (having also an office in New York
City), as a member of the firm of Coe, Pinneo & Stevens;
upon the deaths of his partners some years ago, he assumed
their interests for a time, but eventually sold the business.
His home for many years had been in Newark, and he died
in that city on April 3, 191 5.

Mr. Pinneo was married in New Haven, Conn., on
November 26, 1861, to Mary Juliette, daughter of Rev.
Chauncey Wilcox (B.A. 1824) and Sarah A. (Cooke)
Wilcox, and sister of his classmate, Timothy Keeler Wilcox.
Mrs. Pinneo died in August, 1879. Three children were
born to them: Eliza Lyman, who married Rev. Dr. Henry
Woodward Hulbert, a graduate of Middlebury College in
1879 and of Union Theological Seminary in 1885 ; Frank
Wilcox, who graduated from the College of Physicians and

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Surgeons in 1901, and James Beza. The younger son died
on March 13, 1899, and the daughter on June 9, 1905.

George Robert Marble, B.A. 1858

Born December 17, 183 1, in Winchester, N. H.
Died April 24, 191 5, in Oshkosh, Wis.

George Robert Marble was born in Winchester, N. H.,
on December 17, 183 1, being one of the eight children of
Rev. Elias Marble, a Congregational minister, and Maria
Bourn (Gifford) Marble. He was fitted for college under
Mr. Cyrus Richards of Meriden, N. H., and in 1854 entered
Yale, where he was a member of Brothers in Unity. He
left during the third term of Freshman year, but on petition
of his classmates he received the honorary degree of M.A.
in 1866, and was then enrolled with his Class.

After leaving college he became a teacher, and for two
years, beginning in August, 1864, he taught in a public
school in East Boston, Mass. In March, 1866, he took a
position as head master of the Chapman School in that
town, where he continued until 1893.

His health failed in 1894, and since that time he had not
been able to engage in any work. For the past ten years
he had lived in Oshkosh, Wis., where he died April 24,
19 15, his death resulting from a paralytic stroke suffered
some time before. He was buried in Doty Cemetery,
Oshkosh.

Mr. Marble was married in Chesterfield, N. H., on
December 30, 1857, to Adele E., daughter of Colonel Ezra
Titus and Electa (Kneeland) Titus, and sister of his class-
mate, Herbert Bradwell Titus. Their only son, Herbert
B., died in infancy. Mrs. Marble's death occurred in
Asheville, N. C, April 4, 1882.

Charles Hornblower Woodruff, B.A. 1858

Born October 1, 1836, in Newark, N. J.
Died May 4, 1915, in Litchfield, Conn.

Charles Hornblower Woodruff was born on October I,
1836, in Newark, N. J., the son of Lewis Bartholomew
Woodruff (B.A. 1830, LL.D. Columbia i860). The latter's

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parents were General Morris Woodruff, a descendant of
Nathaniel Woodruff, one of the first settlers of the town
of Litchfield, Conn., and of Matthew Woodruff, one of the
eighty-four original proprietors of Farmington, and Can-
dace, daughter of Lewis Catlin of Harwinton, Conn., one
of whose ancestors was Thomas Catlin, an early settler of
Hartford. His mother was Harriette Burnet, daughter
of Chief Justice Joseph Coerten Hornblower of New Jersey
and Mary (Burnet) Hornblower. He entered Yale from
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and in college was a
member of Linonia.

His preparation for the law, which he had decided to fol-
low as a profession, was received at Harvard, where he
spent the academic year of 1859-60, and at Columbia, from
which he was graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1861.
He also received the honorary degree of M.A. from Yale
in 1865.

He was admitted to the bar of New York in May, 1861,
and after spending part of the following autumn in an
office, began practice in New York City on January 1,
1862. For six years he was associated with his father
and Charles F. Sanford (B.A. 1847), an uncle of his wife,
subsequently judge of the Superior Court of New York,
under the firm name of Sanford & Woodruff. Upon the
withdrawal of the elder Woodruff, upon his appointment
as a judge of the Court of Appeals of New York State,
Mr. Edward Randolph Robinson joined the firm, which
became Sanford, Robinson & Woodruff, and with which
Mr. Woodruff continued until 1875. From that time he
practiced independently until 1896; then with his son,
Frederick, until 1902, when he retired.

He was until his death a member of the Bar Association
in the City of New York, and belonged to the Society of
the Cincinnati in New Jersey, the Society of Colonial Wars,
the New England Society, and the Sons of the Revolution,
all of the state of New York, being for many years on
the board of managers of the latter organization. He was
the first president of the Phillips Academy Alumni Asso-
ciation in New York, and had long served as an elder in
the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church of that city. He
had traveled to quite an extent both in this country and
abroad.

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In recent years Mr. Woodruff had spent much of his
time in Litchfield, Conn., where he had long had a summer
home, and where his death occurred, from a cerebral hemor-
rhage, on May 4, 191 5. Interment was in the East
Cemetery in Litchfield.

His marriage took place on June 30, 1863, in New
Haven, Conn., to Catherine Gertrude Laing, daughter of
William Elihu and Margaret Louise (Craney) Sanford,
who survives him with two of their sons : Lewis Bartholo-
mew, a graduate of the College in 1890 and of the New
York Law School in 1892, and Frederick Sanford, who took
a B.A. at Yale in 1892. Their oldest son died at birth,
and the deaths of the two youngest, — Charles Hornblower,
Jr., who was a non-graduate member of the Class of 1896,
and Edward Seymour, a graduate of the College in 1899
and of the School of Forestry in 1907, — occurred within
a month of each other in 1909. Mr. Woodruff's brother,
Morris, was a member of the Class of i860, and the latter's
two sons, — Morris and George W. L., — also graduated from
Yale, the former with the degree of B.A. in 1893 and the
latter with that of Ph.B. in 1895.

Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury, B.A. 1859

Born January 1, 1838, in Ovid, N. Y.
Died April 9, 1915, in New Haven, Conn.

Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury was born on January 1,
1838, in Ovid, N. Y., the son of Rev. Thomas Lounsbury,
a graduate of Union College in 1817, who was honored with
the degree of D.D. by that college twenty-eight years later,
and who was settled for more than thirty years over the
Presbyterian Church in Ovid. His mother was Mary
Janette, daughter of Major Peter Woodward (B.A. Har-
vard 1776, Hon. M.A. Yale 1871), who served in the War
of the Revolution. He was descended from Rev. John
Hart (B.A. 1703). In college, which he entered from Ovid
Academy, he was awarded two prizes for English com-
position and a third prize in the Bishop prize debate in
Sophomore year and a Townsend premium for English
composition in Senior year, and received Oration appoint-
ments at Junior Exhibition and at Commencement, speaking

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on both occasions, and acting as one of the managers for
the former. He was a member of Linonia and Phi Beta
Kappa, and served as an editor of the Lit in his final year.

In 1859, he went to New York City, and shortly accepted
a position on the staff of Appleton's "New American
Cyclopaedia." He continued to write for that publication,
chiefly in the department of biography, until the outbreak
of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the One Hundred and
Twenty-sixth New York Regiment as first lieutenant of
Company C. In August, 1863, he was detailed to Elmira,
N. Y., as adjutant of the Draft Rendevous, which subse-
quently was made also a depot for Confederate prisoners.
He was mustered out of service in June, 1865, and after
teaching Latin and Greek for some months at Lespinasse's
French Institute at Washington Heights, he was engaged
for two years as a tutor in a family at Milburn, N. J.

During this time he pursued his favorite studies in the
English language and literature, and in January, 1870, he
began his work at Yale as an instructor in English in the
Sheffield Scientific School, at the beginning of the next
academic year being appointed an instructor in the Grad-
uate School, in the department of Germanic languages. He
was raised to a professorship in English in the Scientific
School in 1 87 1, an appointment which he held until his
retirement in 1906, when he was made professor emeritus.
From 1873 to 1896 Professor Lounsbury served as librarian
of the Scientific School, and for many years previous to
1906 he was a member of the standing committee in charge
of the University Library. He was a member of the
University Council from 1900 to 1906.

Professor Lounsbury was recognized as one of the leading
authorities on the English language and literature in this
country. He had made a life-long study of Chaucer and in
1877 edited that poet's "Parlament of Foules" ; fifteen years
later appeared what is considered Professor Lounsbury's
most valuable contribution to the world of letters : "Studies
in Chaucer, his Life and Writings," in three volumes. In
1879 he completed a "History of the English Language,"
which has passed through several editions, and in 1882 his
"Life of James Fenimore Cooper" was published as one
of the "American Men of Letters" series. He edited the
complete works of Charles Dudley Warner, with a bio-

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graphical sketch, in 1904; in 1910, four lectures which he
had delivered at the University of Virginia on "The Early-
Literary Career of Robert Browning" appeared in printed
form ; two years afterwards he published, through the Yale
University Press, his "Yale Book of American Verse."
He had made numerous contributions to magazines, more
especially since his retirement from active teaching, some
of these articles later appearing in book form, among them
"The Standard of Pronunciation in English" (1904), "The
Standard of Usage in English" (1908), and "English
Spelling and Spelling Reform" (1909). His study of
Shakespeare led him to publish a series of three volumes,
under the general title of "Shakespearean Wars" : the first,
appearing in 1901, entitled "Shakespeare as a Dramatic
Artist"; the second, which was published the following
year, "Shakespeare and Voltaire," and the third, issued
in 1906, "The Text of Shakespeare." In 1905 a course
of lectures was given by Professor Lounsbury at the
Lowell Institute in Boston, Mass., on the subject "The
Transition Period in English Literature from the Georgian
Era to the Victorian." A work on which he was engaged
at the time of his death, and which had nearly reached
completion, was "Tennyson and His Times." He was an
advocate of simplified spelling, although not making use
of modified forms himself, and for several years served as
president of the Simplified Spelling Board.

Professor Lounsbury received an honorary M.A. from
Yale in 1887, and five years later the degree of Doctor of
Laws was granted to him by the University. Harvard con-
ferred a similar degree upon him in 1893, and in 1906 the
University of Aberdeen, to which he had been sent as the
representative of Yale on the occasion of its 400th anni-
versary, also honored him with an LL,D. The degree of
L.H.D. was given to him by Lafayette in 1895, and that of
Doctor of Letters by Princeton University in 1896. In
1892 Professor Lounsbury was a delegate from Yale to the
Tercentenary of Dublin University. He was a Fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member
of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the
Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Professor Lounsbury had suffered from heart trouble for
several years, and in February, 19 15, had an attack of

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bronchial pneumonia, but his death, which occurred very
suddenly on April 9, 19 15, in New Haven, was unexpected.
Burial was in Grove Street Cemetery, that city.

His marriage took place August 2, 1871, in Kendaia,
N. Y., to Jennie D., daughter of General Thomas J. Folwell
and Joanna (Bainbridge) Folwell. Mrs. Lounsbury sur-
vives her husband with their son, Walter Whitney
Lounsbury (B.A. 1894).

Albert Arnold Sprague, B.A. 1859

Born May 19, 1835, in East Randolph, Vt.
Died January 10, 1915, in Chicago, 111

Albert Arnold Sprague, son of Ziba and Caroline M.
(Arnold) Sprague, was born on May 19, 1835, in East
Randolph, Vt., where his father was engaged in farming,
and from which place he entered college with the Class of
1859. His preparatory training was received at the Kim-
ball Union Academy in Meriden, N. H. At Yale he was
a member of Brothers in Unity and the Nautilus Boat Club,
and received Dispute appointments.

During the first two years after graduation he lived in
East Randolph, engaged in the wool and provision trade
and in farming, the unsatisfactory condition of his health
having compelled him to abandon his intention to enter upon
the study of law.

In 1862 he removed to Chicago, 111., there entering the
wholesale grocery business, beginning with limited capital,
in partnership with Mr. Z. B. Stetson, under the firm name
of Sprague & Stetson. Mr. Stetson having withdrawn the
following year, a new partnership was formed with Ezra
J. Warner, a graduate of Middlebury College in 1861 ; in
1864 they were joined by Mr. Sprague's brother, Mr. Otho
S. A. Sprague. The firm, which had since continued under
the title of Sprague, Warner & Company, suffered severely
in the great fire of 1871, but recovered itself, and a remark-
ably successful career had made it for many years one of
the leading wholesale grocery houses in the United States.

Mr. Sprague had always been an active supporter of
movements for the welfare of the community in which he
lived. He was an organizer and a director of the Northern

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Trust Company, and had served as a director of the Chi-
cago Telephone Company, the Commonwealth Edison Com-
pany, the Elgin National Watch Company, and the
Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company. Since
1873 he had also been a director of the Relief and Aid
Society, of which he was president during 1887-90, and
he was a director of the Art Institute of Chicago, a trustee
of the Presbyterian Hospital and of Rush Medical College,
and a trustee and elder in the Presbyterian Church. He
had held office as president of the Yale Club of Chicago,
and was a . charter member, and president during 1882,
of the Chicago Commercial Club. He had traveled exten-
sively in this country and abroad. Of late years he had
been accustomed to spend the winter in Pasadena, Calif.

His death occurred suddenly, from heart failure, at his
home in Chicago on January 10, 191 5. Interment was at
Graceland Cemetery, that city.

He was married on September 29, 1862, to Nancy Ann,
daughter of Ebenezer Atwood, a farmer of Royalton, Vt.,
who at one time represented the town in the state legis-
lature, and Elvira (Tucker) Atwood. Mrs. Sprague sur-
vives him. They had three children : Elizabeth Penn, who
was married on November 12, 1891, to Frederick Shurtleff
Coolidge (B.A. Harvard 1887, M.D. Harvard 1891, M.D.
Rush Medical College 1897), and wno has a son, Albert
Sprague Coolidge, a member of the Class of 1915 at Har-
vard; Carrie Arnold (died September 9, 1874), and Susy
(died November 29, 1873).

Mr. Sprague's will makes the provision that in case all
his descendants die before the final distribution of the
estate, it shall be divided equally between the University
of Chicago and Yale, for the erection of buildings or for
an endowment fund.

Asher Henry Wilcox, B.A. 1859

Bom November 16, 1837, in Norwich, Conn.
Died February 25, 1915, in Norwich, Conn.

Asher Henry Wilcox was born in Norwich, Conn., on
November 16, 1837, the son of William Bissell and Mary
Himes (Kenyon) Wilcox. His preparation for Yale was

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received at the academy in Wilbraham, Mass., and in col-
lege he was a member of Brothers in Unity, being secretary
of that society in Junior year, and of Phi Beta Kappa. In
Sophomore year he was awarded two prizes in English
composition and a third prize for declamation, and he
received a second prize in the Brothers Senior prize debate.
He received Oration appointments, was one of the speakers
at Junior Exhibition and Commencement, and in Senior year
served as an editor of the Lit.

After graduation he remained in New Haven for a year
as a student in the Theological Department at Yale, and
the next year went to Europe for travel and study, spend-
ing part of his time at the University of Berlin. Upon his
return to this country he entered the Andover Theological
Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1863.

During the year 1863-64 he served as a tutor in mathe-
matics at Yale, resigning that appointment at the end of
the college year on account of ill health. The following
winter he preached at Gardner, Mass., and on June 28, 1865,
he was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational
Church and installed as pastor at Preston, Conn., where
he remained until May 1, 1872. He then served for four
years as pastor of the Westerly (R. I.) Congregational
Church. In the summer of 1876 he was appointed to an
instructorship in German in the College, but after acting
for a short time in that capacity, his health again failed
and he was forced to give up the work. From the autumn
of 1876 until the spring of 1882 he held the pastorate of
the Congregational Church at Plainfield, Conn.

Since that time he had resided in Norwich, preaching
regularly in various churches, though without a definite
charge as pastor. He had been greatly interested in the
modern scientific movements of thought in philosophy and
theology, and had written many articles embodying the
results of his studies, some of which had been published.

Mr. Wilcox died, from arterio sclerosis, at his home in
Norwich on February 25, 191 5. It was only in the last
few months before his death that his weakened condition
became apparent, but after the death of his only son,
Arthur Bissell Wilcox, on January 1, 19 15, his strength
failed rapidly. The interment was in the Yantic Cemetery
in Norwich.

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His marriage took place in Andover, Mass., on June 13,
1865, to Harriet Thomas, daughter of George Gilbert
Parker (B.A. 1827) and Hannah Olmstead (Woods nee
Holkins) Parker. She survives him with their daughter,
Elizabeth Kenyon (now Mrs. Francis Raymond Haley of
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada).

Henry Clay Eno, B.A. i860

Born October 28, 1840, in New York City
Died July 16, 1914, in New York City

Henry Clay Eno, son of Amos Richards Eno, a capitalist,
and Lucy Jane (Phelps) Eno, was born in New York City
on October 28, 1840.

The year following graduation, he spent in business in
New York City, and in 1861 entered the College of Physi-
cians and Surgeons at Columbia University, from which
he received his medical degree in 1864. During the latter
part of the Civil War, he served as a medical cadet, and
later held an appointment as resident physician at Bellevue
Hospital.

He studied at Paris and Vienna from 1866 to 1868, and
upon his return to this country became attending surgeon
in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, in which capacity
he served for many years. For the past twenty years he
had devoted the greater part of his time to his extensive
realty and business interests.

His summer home was in Saugatuck, Conn. He was a
member of the Century Association and of the Grolier Club.

Dr. Eno died, after a lingering illness, at his home in
New York City on July 16, 1914. Burial was in Simsbury,
Conn.

His marriage took place October 19, 1869, to Cornelia,
daughter of George William Lane, for many years presi-
dent of the New York Chamber of Commerce, and Ann
Augusta (Bulkeley) Lane. They had one son, Henry
Lane Eno (B.A. 1894), who graduated from Columbia with
the degree of LL.B. in 1898. Dr. Eno was a brother of
the late John Chester Eno (B.A. 1869) and William Phelps
Eno (B.A. 1882). Two of his nephews, Gifford Pinchot

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and Amos R. E. Pinchot, graduated from Yale in 1889 and
1897, respectively.

Brayton Ives, B.A. 1861

Born August 23, 1840, in Farmington, Conn.
Died October 22, 1914, in Ossining, N. Y.

Brayton Ives was born in Farmington, Conn., on August
23, 1840, the son of William A. and Julia (Root) Ives.
An ancestor was William Ives, who settled in Massachusetts
in the seventeenth century, soon afterwards becoming a
leader in the exodus which led to the founding of New
Haven Colony, and he was also descended from Eli Ives
(B.A. 1799), one of the originators of the Medical Depart-
ment at Yale and one of its first five professors. He
was fitted for Yale in New Haven at General Russell's
Collegiate and Commercial Institute and at the Hopkins
Grammar School. In college he was the first fleet captain
of the Yale Navy, and rowed on the University Crew that
raced with Harvard in i860. He received a Colloquy
appointment in Junior year.

He was commissioned on July 23, 1861, and went to the
front as first lieutenant and adjutant of the Fifth Connect-
icut Volunteers. In September of that year he was pro-
moted to be captain, and became assistant adjutant general
with the rank of captain on April 28, 1862, on the staff
of Brigadier General Orris S. Ferry (B.A. 1844). He
served in that capacity until July, 1863, when he was com-
missioned lieutenant colonel of the Fifth Connecticut; but
in consequence of a state of health which forbade his
continuing in the field, he resigned August 5, 1863, and in
the following October entered the Yale School of Law.
Here he remained until commissioned major of the First
Connecticut Cavalry in May, 1864. He was promoted to be
lieutenant colonel of the same regiment in November of
that year, and colonel January 17, 1865. He was brev-
etted brigadier general on March 13, 1865, for gallantry at
the battles of Ream's Station, Deep Bottom, Five Forks,
and Sailors' Creek.

Soon after being mustered out of service in August,
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Scotia, later going to New York City, where, for about
twenty years, he was engaged as a stock broker under the
firm name of Brayton Ives & Company. During this
period, Henry L. Johnson (B.A. i860) was associated with
him for a time.

He was for thirteen years one of the governors of the
New York Stock Exchange, in which he had held the
offices of vice president and president. He was at one
time president of the Northern Pacific Railway and was
active in its reorganization, and in 1889 he became presi-
dent of the Western National Bank of New York City. He
had served as president of numerous other organizations,
among them the Metropolitan Trust Company of New
York, the Atlantic Safe Deposit Company, the Standard
Milling Company, and the Hecker-Jones- Jewell Milling
Company, besides being a director or an officer in many
other corporations.

Early in life he became a collector of antiques, books
and manuscripts, Oriental porcelains, jades, carved stones
and ivory, and things of the sort, and his collection had
acquired a worldwide reputation at the time it was sold,
about twenty years ago. At one time he had a library
of more than 6,000 volumes, including a number of works
from fifteenth century presses, and a collection of two
hundred rare books relating to the settlement of this4
country.

He was one of the founders of the Grolier Club, and its
vice president in 1884. He was also a member of the Mili-
tary Order of the Loyal Legion and of the Century Club,
and was one of the trustees of the Grant Monument
Association.

General Ives died at his country home in Ossining, N. Y.,
on October 22, 1914, from a complication of diseases. He
bequeathed the greater part of his estate to Yale University.

His marriage took place on February 6, 1867, to Miss
Ellen A. Bissell of Norwalk, Conn. They had been
separated since 1904. They had four children: Winifred;
Sherwood Bissell; Eunice (Mrs. Walter E. Maynard), and
Frances Havens. The son, who graduated from the Col-
lege in 1893, receiving his M.D. at Columbia three years
later, died in Mexico on February 16, 1907. Walter T.
Ives (Ph.B. 1890) is a nephew.

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John Barnard Pearse, B.A. 1861

Born April 19, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Died August 24, 1914, in Georgeville, Quebec, Canada

John Barnard Pearse was born in Philadelphia, Pa., on
April 19, 1842, the son of Oliver Peabody and Adelia
Coffin (Swett) Pearse. His father died in 1848, and his
mother afterwards married Dr. Edward Hartshorne of
Philadelphia. He was prepared for college by Charles
Short, who later became professor of the Latin language
and literature at Columbia. He received a Dissertation
appointment in Junior year and an Oration at Commence-
ment, and belonged to Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation he returned to Philadelphia, where he
remained for four years, studying chemistry with Booth
& Garrett until 1863, and having charge of the chemical
division of the United States Army Laboratory for the
following two years, during which time he was engaged in
preparing articles for use in the army.

He then went to Europe for the purpose of studying
mining engineering, and spent more than a year at Frei-
berg in the School of Mines. Afterwards he studied at
Neuberg and various points in Silesia, and at Paris, later
visiting England in order to examine its mines and furnaces.
During this time he gave special attention to iron and
steel, particularly to the manufacture of Bessemer steel,
and the construction of furnaces.

Returning to this country in December, 1867, early
in the following year, he became connected with the
Pennsylvania Steel Works near Harrisburg, of which he
was general manager from 1870 to 1876. Here he did
much to improve the design and product of the Bessemer
steel plant, made various inventions, which were afterwards
generally adopted, and was instrumental in first making
Bessemer pig iron from native New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania ores. In June, 1874, he was appointed a commis-
sioner and secretary of the Second Geological Survey of
Pennsylvania, a position which he resigned in 1881. For
five years, beginning in November, 1876, he served as man-
ager of the works of the South Boston Iron Company, a
company which made a specialty of manufacturing cast-
iron guns and projectiles of all kinds.

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Upon his resignation from that position in 1881, he went
to England, living in London until 1888. There he studied
music, and took a diploma at the Tonic-Sol-Fa College in
South London. He had not been actively engaged in any
professional mining or metallurgical work since his return
to this country. His home had been in Boston, Mass., and,
having become deeply interested in the violin, he had spent
much time investigating the theory of that instrument and
the methods of its construction from a scientific standpoint.
In March, 19 13, he received a diploma from the Franklin
Union in Boston, at which he had taken a regular two-year
course in industrial chemistry. A number of papers which
Mr. Pearse had read before various organizations were
later published, and he had also written articles for
encyclopaedias. Two of his works are: "A Treatise on
Roll Turning for the Manufacture of Iron, by Peter
Tunner," which he translated and adapted, and which was
published in 1869, and "A Concise History of the Iron
Manufacture of the American Colonies up to the Revolu-
tion, and of Pennsylvania until the Present Time," published
in 1876. He was a member of the American Institute of
Mining Engineers from its foundation, and at one time held
office as vice president; he belonged also to the American
Philosophical Society and the Iron and Steel Institute.

Mr. Pearse died of heart disease, on August 24, 1914,
in Georgeville, Quebec, Canada, where he had had a sum-
mer camp for many years. The interment was at Forest
Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Mass.

His marriage took place in Roxbury, Mass., on November
1, 1876, to Mary Langdon, daughter of David Weld and
Adelia (Coffin) Williams. Mrs. Pearse and their two chil-
dren,— a son, Langdon (B.A. Harvard 1899, B.S. Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology 1901, M.S. 1902), and a
daughter, Alice Williams, — survive him.

George Austin Pelton, B.A. 186 1

Born April 15, 1833, in Stockbridge, Mass.
Died October 4, 1914, in New Haven, Conn.

George Austin Pelton, son of Asa Carter and Ophelia
(Austin) Pelton, was born April 15, 1833, m Stockbridge,
Mass., and was fitted for college at Williston Seminary

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in Easthampton. He was of old New England stock, his
ancestors being early settlers in Connecticut and Massa-
chusetts. At Yale he was secretary of the Beethoven
Society, rowed on the Atalanta Boat Club, and, in i860,
was president of the Yale Missionary Society.

During 1861-62 he remained in New Haven studying
theology, later going to Andover, Mass., where he com-
pleted his course in the Theological Seminary in 1864. In
February of that year he was licensed to preach by the
Essex South Association at Salem, Mass., and in the follow-
ing autumn became acting pastor of the First Congrega-
tional Church in Franklin, that state, where he was ordained
to the ministry on August 9, 1865.

He had held pastorates in New York State, Massachu-
setts, and Connecticut, his last charge being at Centerbrook,
Conn., where he was located from May, 1901, to 1907.
Since then he had made his home in New Haven, Conn.,
and while living there he had taken an active part in the
work of Plymouth Church.

Throughout his ministry he had identified himself with
the general religious, social, educational, and civic interests
of every community in which he had been stationed, and
had often delivered addresses in connection with various
conventions and public celebrations. While in Central New
York he was for six years secretary of the Education
Society maintained by the Congregational churches of the
state in the interests of their candidates for the ministry,
and in 1871 he served as one of three general delegates
from the association to the National Council of Congrega-
tional Churches held in Oberlin, Ohio. He had also been
a member of the Congregational Sunday School Committee
for the state of New York.

Two weeks before his death, which occurred on October
4, 1914, he went to Watertown, Conn., to participate in the
celebration of the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniver-
sary of the Congregational Church, of which he was pastor
from 1886 to 1890. His death was due to infirmities inci-
dent to his advanced age, complicated by congestion of the
liver. The burial was in the family plot in Great
Barrington, Mass.

He was married on April 2J, 1864, in New Haven to
Catherine Sarah, daughter of Seth Warner and Catherine

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Post (Niven) Brownson. They had one daughter, Mary-
Ophelia, who died in childhood. The death of Mrs. Pelton
occurred on May 31, 1910. A nephew of Mr. Pelton's,
John S. Bradley, Jr., graduated from the Sheffield Scientific
School in 1908.

Sherburne Blake Eaton, B.A. 1862

Born February 23, 1840, in Lowell, Mass.
Died December 1, 1914, in New York City

Sherburne Blake Eaton was born in Lowell, Mass., on
February 23, 1840, being the son of Forrest and Shuah
(Blake) Eaton. He received his preparatory training at
Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., and at Phillips-Andover,
and joined the Class of 1862 at Yale at the beginning of Jun-
ior year, having previously spent some time at Brown Uni-
versity. He held various offices in Brothers in Unity, and
received the first prize in the Brothers Senior prize debate.

In October, 1862, he entered the Union Army, serving
as adjutant and later as captain in the One Hundred and
Twenty-fourth Ohio Volunteers, and, for thirteen months,
as captain on the staff of Major General William B. Hazen.
He was wounded at Atlanta on July 19, 1864, and the results
of his wound forbidding his continuance in the service, he
resigned in November, 1864, being mustered out with the
rank of major.

For about a year he remained in Huntsville, Ala., in the
employ of the Treasury Department, but in 1866 he went
to Chicago, 111., where for four or five years he was engaged
in business, during most of the time in partnership with
Hubert S. Brown (B.A. 1861). In the great fire of Octo-
ber, 1871, both his business quarters and his residence were
entirely consumed. The following January he removed to
New York City, and entered upon the practice of law,
having previously been admitted to the bar in Illinois.
During his earlier years in New York he made a specialty
of bankruptcy and corporation law, and, in particular, of
practice under the customs laws, where he came to be
retained in most of the important cases. A notable argu-
ment was that before the Committee of Ways and Means
at Washington, in a successful effort of the New York

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Chamber of Commerce and associated bodies for reform
in the revenue laws.

One of his partners from 1877 to 1881 was his classmate,
Governor Daniel H. Chamberlain, the firm being Chamber-
lain, Carter & Eaton. In 1881 Mr. Eaton withdrew to take
charge of the Edison Electric Light Company at the begin-
ning of its career. For a number of years he continued as
president, in due time becoming general counsel of various
connected companies, as well as the personal counsel of
Mr. Edison. In later years he rarely appeared in court,
being diligently occupied in consultation and supervision.
He retired from active practice in 1897, although his name
remained in the firm of Eaton, Lewis & Rowe until his
death, and of late years he had spent much of his time in
Europe.

Since about 1893 ne nad been in very poor health,
due largely to overwork, and his death occurred in New
York City on December 1, 19 14, the immediate cause being
diabetes. Interment was in Exeter, N. H.

Mr. Eaton was married on April 9, 1868, to Anna, daugh-
ter of Richard McClevey of Chicago. Her death occurred
on December 5, 1878. His second wife, Anna Maria
Kenny, to whom he was married about 1899, died on April
18, 19 1 3. He had no children by either marriage.

Daniel Moschel Birmingham, B.A. 1863

Born August 29, 1832, in Root, N. Y.
Died June 18, 1915, in Oroville, Calif.

Daniel Moschel Birmingham was born on August 29,
1832, in Root, N. Y., his parents being David Birmingham,
a farmer of that place, and Elizabeth (Moschel) Birming-
ham. He received his preparatory training at Wesleyan
Academy in Wilbraham, Mass., entering Genesee College
(now Syracuse University) from that school. He was
obliged to withdraw in his Freshman year there on account
of poor health, and with his three brothers went to Cali-
fornia, and engaged in banking and mining in Marysville.
Returning from the West in 1858, he spent a year at the
Cazenovia (N. Y.) Seminary before entering Yale with

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the Class of 1863. He received a Colloquy appointment in
Junior year and a Dispute at Commencement.

After taking his degree he entered what is now the theo-
logical school of Boston University, but which was at that
time located in Concord, N. H., and known as the Metho-
dist General Biblical Institute, graduating there with the
degree of S.T.B. two years later. In 1864 he was admitted
to the New Hampshire Conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church. The greater part of his life, however, had
been spent, not in the ministry, although he had occasionally
preached, but in the work of the educational institutions of
the Church.

He taught Greek and German at Cazenovia Seminary
from 1866 until 1868, and for the next three years was
connected with the department of ancient languages in Wes-
leyan Academy at Wilbraham. In 1883, after several years
during which he was incapacitated for work by the con-
dition of his health, he became dean of the Theological
Department of Central Tennessee College at Nashville.
Three years afterwards he was appointed principal of
Tulare City Seminary of the University of Southern Cali-
fornia. Resigning from that position, he was engaged in
pastoral work for the next five years in Solano County,
Calif. In 1892 he was elected professor of Greek and Latin
in Napa College, a part of the University of the Pacific,
and for a time he served as a non-resident professor of
theology at Walden University, Nashville, Tenn., from
which he received the honorary degree of S.T.D. in 1892.
He was also connected with the Methodist Episcopal
Deaconess' Home and Training School in New York City
as an instructor for a number of years.

For some years he had been associated with his son,
Ernest Fitzyale Birmingham (B.A. New York University
1879), in the editorial conduct of the Fourth Estate and the
News-Letter, and had made his home in New York City.
Failing health at length compelled him to give up active
work, and he had spent the winter of 191 5 at the home of
his daughter in Oroville, Calif., where he had previously
served a pastorate, and where his death occurred on June
18. His body was taken to New York for burial.

He was married on July 6, 1858, about a year before
his entrance to Yale, to Mary Jane, daughter of Rev. Silas

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Kenney, a Baptist minister of Royalston, Mass. Besides the
son previously referred to, they had one daughter, Lillian
Faith (Mrs. Fred Howard Gray). Dr. Birmingham was a
member of the American Philological Association and of
the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

John Birge Doolittle, B.A. 1863

Born November 6, 1836, in Bristol, Conn.
Died February 3, 191 5, in Meriden, Conn.

John Birge Doolittle, son of Abraham Burbank and Juliet
(Birge) Doolittle, was born in Bristol, Conn., on Novem-
ber 6, 1836. Through his paternal grandfather, who mar-
ried a daughter of Abraham Burbank (B.A. 1759), who
was a member of the convention which framed the Con-
stitution of the United States, he was descended from
General Seth Pomeroy of Revolutionary fame. On his
mother's side he was a descendant of Stephen Hopkins of
the Mayflower, and of John Birge, one of the settlers of
Windsor, Conn. After preparing for college at Williston
Seminary in Easthampton, Mass., he entered Yale. He
received Dispute appointments.

The fall after taking his degree he began his theological
studies at Yale, but his course was interrupted in 1864,
when he was commissioned chaplain of the Fifteenth Con-
necticut Volunteer Infantry. After being mustered out
with his regiment at the close of the war, he resumed his
studies, remaining in New Haven two years longer.

Upon entering the ministry of the Congregational
Church, he was installed on June 12, 1867, as pastor at
East Hartland, Conn., where he was located until August,
1872. He afterwards had charge of churches at Bridge-
water and Westbrook, in the same state, but in the latter
part of 1879 ms health failed, and he removed to Nebraska.
When his strength was somewhat restored, he became con-
nected with the Congregational Home Missionary Society
there, and for about fifteen years was active in its service,
building up the work of the Church in Grafton, Farnam,
Harbine, and Plymouth. For two years he also acted as
financial agent for Franklin Academy.

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The work in Nebraska at length proved too severe for
his weak constitution, and in 1895 Mr. Doolittle returned
to Connecticut, settling in West Suffield. After a pas-
torate of about eleven years there he retired from the
active ministry, but in 1907 he served as chaplain of the
House of Representatives at Hartford, and he later
performed a similar service at the Soldiers' Home in
Noroton.

Since 191 1 he had made his home in Meriden, Conn.,
where he died on February 3, 19 15. His death was the
result of angina pectoris. At the funeral services his
classmate, Rev. George W. Banks, reviewed Mr. Doolittle's
life, work, and character.

His marriage took place on August 23, 1866, to Cor-
nelia J., daughter of Laban and Maria (Lewis) Parmelee
of Winsted, Conn., who survives him with their two sons :
Edward Winslow and Charles Banks. A daughter, Kate
Eliza, died in childhood. Rev. John K. Birge (B.A. 1909)
is a cousin.

Charles Miles Gilman, B.A. 1863

Born June 27, 1842, in Godfrey, 111.
Died October 4, 1914, in Southport, Conn.

Charles Miles Gilman, son of Benjamin Ives and Mary
Elizabeth (Miles) Gilman, was born in Godfrey, 111., on
June 27, 1842, and was fitted for college at Phillips Acad-
emy, Andover, Mass. At Yale he received Dissertation
appointments.

In the fall of 1863 he entered the Law School of Colum-
bia University, from which he received the degree of LL.B.
two years later. He was then engaged for a short time in
the practice of his profession in New York City, but in
July, 1867, he went abroad, and spent several years traveling
in Europe.

In 1870 he commenced the practice of law at Southport,
Conn., the following year being elected judge of probate.
He had lived there the rest of his life, his death occurring
at his home on October 4, 1914, after a brief illness. At
one time he edited a weekly newspaper known as the
Southport Chronicle.

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His marriage took place on June 19, 1867, to Mary O.,
daughter of George Bulkley of Southport, and sister of his
classmate, James E. Bulkley. Her death occurred on June
11, 1896. Their son, Benjamin Ives, died at the age of
sixteen. One of Mr. Gilman's brothers, Thomas Poynton
Gilman, is a non-graduate member of the Class of 1863.

Henry Hulbert Ingersoll, B.A. 1863

Born January 20, 1844, in Oberlin, Ohio
Died March 12, 1915, in Knoxville, Tenn.

Henry Hulbert Ingersoll was born in Oberlin, Ohio, on
January 20, 1844, the son of William Ingersoll, whose
mother was Sarah Parsons, granddaughter of Jonathan
Edwards (B.A. 1720), who became president of the Col-
lege of New Jersey (Princeton University). He was a
descendant of John Ingersoll, who came from Bedford-
shire, England, and settled at Salem, Mass., in 1629.
Among other ancestors were Elder Brewster, leader of
Plymouth Colony, Edward Winslow, governor of that
colony in 1633, 1636 and 1644, Rev. Thomas Hooker, who
led his congregation down into Connecticut, and Rev. James
Pierpont, one of the founders of Yale College. His mother
was Semantha (Bassett) Ingersoll. He received his early
education in the public schools in his native town, and was
admitted to Oberlin College at the age of fifteen, after
studying in the preparatory department for several years.
During the winter of 1859 he taught a country school, but
he later resumed his studies at Oberlin, continuing there
until the beginning of the Civil War. After serving for
three months as a private in the Seventh Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, he entered Yale in the winter of 1861. He was
a member of the Glyuna Boat Club and of Linonia, spoke
at Commencement, and received a Dispute appointment.

After spending a year as superintendent of the public
schools of Kenton, Ohio, he began the study of law in Cin-
cinnati, being admitted to the bar in Kenton in August,
1864. He then removed to Greeneville, Tenn., where for
three years he was a member of the law firm of Britton,
Terrell & Ingersoll, in which his classmate, Herbert L.
Terrell, was also a partner.

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During 1866-67 he served as assistant attorney general
for the first circuit of Tennessee; from 1879 to 1880 he
was a judge of the Supreme Court Commission of the state,
and during 1884-85 he acted as a special judge of the regu-
lar Supreme Court. In 1876 Mr. Ingersoll was a presiden-
tial elector, and in 1888 he acted as a delegate-at-large to the
National Democratic Convention at St. Louis. From 1882
to 1885 he held office as president of the Board of Health
of Knoxville, to which place he had removed in 1878. He
had also served at president of the Board of Education,
president of the Lawson-McGee Public Library Associa-
tion, president of the State Bar Association, vice president
of the American Bar Association, a director of the Mechan-
ics National Bank, and president of the Knoxville Abstract
Company.

In 1 89 1 he became dean of the Law School of the Uni-
versity of Tennessee, a connection which was continued for
twenty-four years. For six years he served as a trustee
of Emory and Henry College at Emory, Va., and he acted
in a similar capacity for the University of the South from
1898 to 1904. Washington College in Tennessee con-
ferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws upon him
in 1889.

He was a vestryman of St. John's Protestant Episcopal
Church of Knoxville, and attended many of the Diocesan
and general convocations and conventions of the Church.
For a long time he was grand master of Masons in Tennes-
see, and he had often delivered addresses on Masonry, as
well as on educational, political, social, and religious sub-
jects. In 1886 he edited "Barton's Society in Equity,"
and he was the author of "University of Tennessee Law
Syllabi" (1900), "Ingersoll on Public Corporations"
(1904), and "Municipal Corporations in 'CYC'" (1907).
At the Fiftieth Reunion in 1913, Mr. Ingersoll spoke for
the Class of 1863 at the meeting of the alumni.

He was married on April 7, 1864, to Emily Gertrude,
daughter of Everett and Catharine Eliza (Campbell)
Rogers of Kenton, Ohio, by whom he had two children, — a
son who was stillborn, and a daughter, Mabel Rogers, the
wife of Mr. Oliver Weekes Ingersoll of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mrs. Ingersoll died on January 15, 191 5, a fact which has-
tened Mr. Ingersoll's death, which occurred two months

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later, on March 12, at his home in Knoxville. The imme-
diate cause was heart trouble. He was buried in the family-
plot in the Old Gray Cemetery in Knoxville.

William Rutherford Hayes Trowbridge, B.A. 1863

Born May 7, 1842, in New Haven, Conn.
Died October 30, 1914, in Ouchy-Lausanne, Switzerland

William Rutherford Hayes Trowbridge, third son of
Thomas Rutherford and Caroline (Hoadley) Trowbridge,
was born May 7, 1842, in New Haven, Conn., and was pre-
pared for Yale under Stiles French (B.A. 1827), graduat-
ing in 1863. His ancestors were among the early settlers
of New Haven Colony, and his great-great-grandfather,
Daniel Trowbridge, graduated from Yale College in 1725.

The first year after graduation he spent in traveling with
a tutor in Europe, Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, Asia Minor,
Turkey, and Greece. On his return to the United States,
he was admitted a partner in Trowbridge & Company, the
West India branch of the firm of Henry Trowbridge's Sons
of New Haven, at that time conducted by his father and
three uncles. In 1865 he took up his residence in Barba-
dos, British West Indies, where he spent the next twenty
years, in charge of the firm's business there.

He made several visits to New Haven during this time,
and on his return to the United States with his family in
1885, settled there. Seven years later he retired from active
business, his firm having been dissolved by mutual consent
of the partners, who at the time were himself and his
three brothers. The following year he went abroad, where,
except for a few visits to this country, he had since lived,
passing the greater part of his time in England, Germany,
Switzerland, and Italy, and also in making several journeys
to Ceylon, Australia, and New Zealand, and in visiting the
scenes of his early travels, spending the winter of 1913-14,
the fiftieth anniversary of his first visit to Egypt, in a trip
up the Nile as far as the Soudan.

He was a member of Center Church, New Haven, and
was elected one of its deacons in 1887, the duties of which
office he filled until his departure for England in 1893.
He contributed stories and sketches to a number of English

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and American newspapers and periodicals, and was a great
lover of the Latin classics, never allowing a day to pass
without reading a few pages of Caesar, or some other
favorite author.

Mr. Trowbridge died, from arterio sclerosis, in Ouchy-
Lausanne, Switzerland, October 30, 1914. He was buried
in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven.

He married on June 29, 1865, Isabella, daughter of Alex-
ander and Hester Anna (Wilson) Nesbit of Philadelphia,
Pa. Mrs. Trowbridge died in Dresden, Germany, October
12, 1901. They had five children: William Rutherford
Hayes, Jr., who graduated from Yale in 1887; Isabella
Thomasine; Clifford Nesbit (died in 1893); Florence
Caroline (Mrs. John Edward Heaton), and Harold Ruther-
ford. Besides four of his children, he is survived by one
brother and two sisters, one of the latter being the widow
of George Bliss Rogers (Ph.B. 1880). A nephew, Francis
B. Trowbridge, graduated from Yale College in 1887 and
from the School of Law in 1890. Among other relatives
who have attended Yale are : Winston J. Trowbridge (B.A.
1879, LL.B. 1881); Frank D. Trowbridge (B.A. 1884),
and Elford P. Trowbridge (B.A. 1887).

Charles Larned Atterbury, B.A. 1864

Born December 3, 1842, in Detroit, Mich.
Died November 10, 1914, in New York City-
Charles Larned Atterbury was born in Detroit, Mich.,
on December 3, 1842, the son of Rev. John Guest Atter-
bury (B.A. 1831), and the grandson of Elisha Boudinot.
His father, who served during the greater part of his life
in the Presbyterian ministry, although for a time after
graduation he practiced as a lawyer, received the honorary
degree of D.D. from Marietta College in 1863. His mother
was Catherine, daughter of General Charles Larned.
He was fitted for Yale at New Albany, Ind., and in college
was a member of Brothers in Unity, the Beethoven Society,
the Glyuna Boat Club, and Phi Beta Kappa. He was one
of the Cochleaureati, received an Oration appointment in
Junior year, a Dissertation appointment and a Townsend

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premium for excellence in English composition in Senior
year, and spoke at Commencement.

Immediately after graduation he commenced the study
of law in Detroit, and was admitted to the bar there the fol-
lowing spring. He practiced law in that place until 1872,
when he removed to New York City, there entering the
firm of Betts, Atterbury & Betts. A little later he became
connected with the legal department of the Erie Railroad,
and, after several years, rose to be general counsel of the
company and assistant to the president. In 1884 he left
that railroad to become general counsel of the Chicago &
Atlantic Railway Company, the Pullman Palace Car Com-
pany, and the National Cordage Company. He was later
consulting lawyer for the United Railroads of San Fran-
cisco, the United Railways Investment Company, the Sierra
& San Francisco Power Company, the Railroads & Devel-
opment Power Company, the Philadelphia Company, the
Houston Oil Company, and otiier corporations.

Mr. Atterbury was a member of the New York Bar
Association, and had served on its executive committee,
and also belonged to the Century Club.

His death occurred, from arterial trouble, on November
10, 1914, at his home in New York City. He was buried
in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y.

He was married on January 7, 1868, to Katharine Mitch-
ell, daughter of Marcus and Caroline (Mitchell) Dow, who
survives him with their son, Grosvenor Atterbury (B.A.
1891).

David Gilbert Lapham, B.A. 1864

Born January 17, 1839, in Manchester, N. Y.
Died August 27, 1914, in Seattle, Wash.

David Gilbert Lapham was born in Manchester, N. Y.,
on January 17, 1839, his parents being Anson S. and Amy
A. (Howland) Lapham. In college he took a third prize
for English composition in the second term of Sophomore
year, received Oration appointments, and was a member of
Linonia, the Varuna Boat Club, the Beethoven Society, and
Phi Beta Kappa. In 1862 he was recording secretary of the
Yale Foreign Missionary Society.

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After graduation he spent several years at home, and
then studied law with Senator Eldridge G. Lapham, being
admitted to the bar at Rochester, N. Y., in June, 1869.
Since then, until about 19 10, when he removed to the West,
he had practiced his profession in Canandaigua, N. Y., at
first in the firm of Lapham & Harwood, and afterwards
alone.

In 1885 he was elected surrogate of Ontario County for
a term of six years, ending in December, 1891. The fol-
lowing year (1892), a vacancy occurring by the death of
his successor, he was again elected. He had held at differ-
ent times the offices of town clerk, village clerk, and attor-
ney for Canandaigua, and had served as a member of the
board of trustees of the Ontario Orphan Asylum.

Mr. Lapham died on August 2.J, 1914, at the home of his
daughter in Seattle, Wash., burial being in that city.

He was married in Canandaigua on June 4, 1872, to
Emily M., daughter of Jonas M. Wheeler, who survives
him with their two daughters: Anna Edith (B.A. Vassar
1896), now Mrs. Clemens James France of Seattle, Wash.,
and Emily Marian (B.A. Vassar 1897).

Isaac Piatt Pugsley, B.A. 1864

Born June 5, 1843, in Goshen, N. Y.
Died June 3, 1915, in Toledo, Ohio

Isaac Piatt Pugsley was born in Goshen, N. Y., June 5,
1843, nis parents being David Crosby Pugsley, a merchant,
and Ann Caroline (Piatt) Pugsley. His preparatory train-
ing was received in Binghamton, N. Y., at the Binghamton
Academy and the Susquehanna Seminary, and in his Fresh-
man year in college he was awarded the Hurlbut Scholar-
ship, while the following year he received a third prize in
English composition. He was given a Philosophical Ora-
tion in Junior year, and delivered the Valedictory at
Commencement. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and
Brothers in Unity.

From August, 1864, until October, 1865, he served as
acting assistant paymaster in the United States Navy, being
attached to the bark Midnight. He then taught in New
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study of law in Binghamton. In the spring of 1868 he
removed to Toledo, and soon afterwards was admitted to
the bar. Entering upon the practice of law, he was for
nearly fifteen years a member of the firm of Kent, Newton
& Pugsley, in which his associates were Messrs. Charles
Kent and John T. Newton. Upon the death of Mr. Newton
in 1908 he became an executor of his estate, and since its
settlement had been retained as counsel. From March until
October, 1883, he- filled a vacancy as judge of the Court
of Common Pleas, being again elected to the bench of that
court in November, 1888. He continued in office until
November, 1903, when, having refused to consider a fourth
term, he retired to resume his private practice.

Judge Pugsley died on June 3, 191 5, at his home in
Toledo, and was buried in Patterson, N. Y. He was ill
but a short time, his death resulting from an attack of
apoplexy.

He was unmarried. In 1906 he spent several months in
Europe.

Edgar Thaddeus Welles, B.A. 1864

Born August 29, 1843, in Hartford, Conn.
Died August 22, 1914, in New York City

Edgar Thaddeus Welles, son of Gideon Welles, Secre-
tary of the Navy during the Civil War, and Mary Jane
(Hale) Welles, was born in Hartford, Conn., on August
29, 1843, being prepared for Yale at the high school in
his native town. Thomas Welles, first of the name in this
country, was treasurer of Connecticut Colony from 1639
to 165 1, and governor of the colony during 1655-58. The
land on which stands the Welles house in Glastonbury,
Conn, (where Gideon Welles was born), was purchased
in 1640 from the Indians, and has never passed out of the
Welles family. The Hales also hold lands in Glastonbury
granted them two hundred years ago. In college he was
a member of Brothers in Unity and the Varuna Boat Club.

From June 1, 1866, to March, 1869, he was chief clerk
in the United States Navy Department, resigning to take
up the study of law in Hartford, but although he was
admitted to the bar he had never practiced. About 1870
he became treasurer and manager of the Gatling Gun Com-

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pany of Hartford, and subsequently held the following
positions: president of the Granby Mining & Smelting
Company of St. Louis; president of the Consolidated
Coal Company of St. Louis ; receiver of the National Bank
of the State of Missouri; president of the International
Company of Mexico and of the Mexican Steamship Com-
pany and their subsidiary organizations; president of the
Peninsular Railway of Lower California; vice president
and a director of the Wabash Railroad Company, and vice
president of the National Heating Company. Mr. Welles
had also served as a director of the Ohio & Mississippi
Railroad Company, the Peoria & Pekin Railway Company,
and the United States Trust Company of Hartford, as well
as of other corporations.

He was a member of the Sons of the Revolution in the
State of New York, the Connecticut Historical Society, the
New York Historical Society, and the New England
Society. In 191 1 he authorized the publication of the
remarkable diary of his father, under the title "Diary of
Gideon Welles," and at the time of his death he was pre-
paring for publication the correspondence of his father,
covering many years, which was of the greatest public
interest.

Mr. Welles died at his home in New York City on August
2.2., 1914, after a long illness from a complication of diseases.
The body was taken to Hartford for burial.

He was married in that city on September 29, 1870, to
Alice, daughter of Charles Haskell and Mary Jane (Good-
win) Brainard. Mrs. Welles died in New York City on
January 22, 1901. They had one daughter, Alice Welles,
who survives.

Francis Eben Woodruff, B.A. 1864

Born April 24, 1844, in New York City-
Died June 3, 1914, in Morristown, N. J.

Francis Eben Woodruff was born in New York City on
April 24, 1844, the son of Ebenezer Blachly Woodruff,
M.D., and Elizabeth Sophia (Coursen) Woodruff, and was
prepared for college at the Morristown (N. J.) Academy.
Before coming to Yale he was offered a West Point cadet-
ship, but it was thought best that he should not accept, and

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he entered college with the Class of 1864. He was a mem-
ber of Linonia and Phi Beta Kappa, and received an
Oration appointment at Commencement.

Shortly after graduation he passed the examination for
a second lieutenancy in the United States Customs Service,
but there were so many on the waiting list that his commis-
sion did not come until after he had accepted a position in
the Imperial Maritime Customs Service of China. In Jan-
uary, 1865, he sailed for that country, where he arrived in
July, after spending some time in Rio de Janeiro. The first
year was devoted to the study of the Chinese language at
Peking, and he did not begin his work at Shanghai until
June, 1866. From that time until 1897, when he retired on
account of ill health, he had continued in the Customs
Service of China, having opened several different ports.
At the time of his retirement he held the position of
inspector of customs at Ichang. In 1897 he returned to the
United States, and after some months spent on the Western
Coast, where his health had greatly improved, resumed his
residence at Morristown.

In February, 1878, he received the Civil Rank of the
Third Class, on September 3, 1885, the Civil Rank of the
Second Class, and at the same time the Chinese Decoration
of the Double Dragon, Third Division, First Class. He
was an associate member of the New England Committee
for the Promotion of International Bimetallism, and had
written several brochures on the subject. Besides sketches
of the history of his family, he had published an article
on "A Single Standard for the World," and had also
written more or less for the papers on this subject, as well
as on political topics. He belonged to the Washington
Association of New Jersey, and was a life member of the
New Jersey and New York Historical societies.

Mr. Woodruff's death occurred, after a week's illness
resulting from heat prostration, at his home in Morris-
town on June 3, 1914. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery
in that town.

He was unmarried, and is survived by a sister and two
brothers; one of the latter, Edward Coursen Woodruff,
served in the United States Army for over thirty years,
ranking as a lieutenant colonel when retired.

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John Warren Hicks, B.A. 1865

Born on June 16, 1839, in Charlton, Mass.
Died December 15, 1914, in Worcester, Mass.

John Warren Hicks, son of Elijah Warren and Matilda
Cor bin (Wakefield) Hicks, was born June 16, 1839, in
Charlton, Mass., and received his preparation for college
at the high school in Worcester. At Yale he was a
member of Linonia, and was one of the Cochleaureati.

After graduation he began the study of law in Boston,
but soon removed to the West, and for a time lived in
Columbus, Ohio, where he was engaged in the insurance
business. In 1867 he became interested in a foundry busi-
ness in Worcester, but at the end of that year accepted a
position in the pay department of the United States Navy,
for the next three years being stationed for duty on board
the Ohio at Charlestown, Mass. During that period he also
continued his law studies at Boston, and was interested in
building operations in that city and in Worcester. From
1873 to 1895 he taught school in various places, and was
extensively interested in raising fruit and vegetables in
Auburn and Worcester. While in Auburn he served as
chairman of the School Board and as trustee of the public
library, and for forty years he was a member of the Auburn
Congregational Church.

In 1895 he relinquished all other interests to give his
entire attention to the affairs of the Knights of Malta,
becoming grand recorder of Massachusetts and supreme
commander of America. In 1908, while traveling in the
interests of the organization, his health gave out under the
strain and he suffered a slight stroke. In February, 1910,
he had a second stroke, which left him quite blind and
feeble. His death, the immediate cause of which was heart
trouble, occurred in Worcester on December 15, 1914.
Burial was in the West Auburn Cemetery.

He was married to Mary Ellen, daughter of Moses Myron
and Chloe (Broard) Smith of Rutland, Mass., on April 22,
1868. She died on July 26, 1886, but his daughter, Edith
Mary (Hicks) Adams, with whom he had made his home
for some time, and two of his sons, — William Drury and
Ernest Wakefield, — survive. His eldest son, John Tod,
died in infancy.

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Henry Hinsdale Butler, B.A. 1866

Born November 27, 1843, in Dorchester, Mass.
Died March 14, 1915, in Boston, Mass.

Henry Hinsdale Butler was born in Dorchester, Mass.,
on November 2J, 1843, being the son of Rev. Daniel Butler,
a graduate of Yale in the Class of 1835 and of the Andover
Theological Seminary in 1838, who was for many years
secretary of the Massachusetts Bible Society, and Jane
(Douglas) Butler. He was a descendant in the seventh
generation of Deacon Richard Butler, who was one of the
original settlers of Hartford, Conn. He came to Yale from
Williston Seminary at Easthampton, Mass., entering with
the Class of 1865, which he left at the end of Freshman
year to enlist in the Union Army. He served for nine
months with the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers,
and then returned to Yale as a member of '66. He belonged
to Brothers in Unity, and in Junior year received a Dispute
appointment.

Upon graduation he turned his attention to teaching, and
continued in that work until about fifteen years ago, when
he was compelled by a throat trouble of long standing to
retire. Mr. Butler was located at different times at Long-
meadow and East Bridgewater, Mass., at Danbury, Conn.,
and at Saxonville and Belmont, Mass., his last position
being the principalship of the high school at Belmont. He
had made a number of trips abroad.

His death occurred, from bronchial asthma, in Boston,
Mass., on March 14, 191 5, and the burial was in Pittsfield,
Mass. By Mr. Butler's will, practically his entire estate
is bequeathed to Yale as a memorial to his father.

His marriage took place on June 25, 1887, to Sarah B.
Tucker, who died a little over a year ago. They had no
children.

George Frederick Darrell, B.A. 1866

Born November 4, 1845, in Kingston, Jamaica
Died July 14, 1914, in Stoke Fleming, Devonshire, England

George Frederick Darrell, son of Nathaniel Robert and
Selina George (Lightbourn) Darrell, was born in Kingston,

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Jamaica, on November 4, 1845. He received his prepara-
tion for Yale at the Hopkins Grammar School in New
Haven, and in his Sophomore year in college received a
third prize for declamation.

In the January following his graduation, he entered the
shipping and commission business of Darrell & Nash as
a clerk, succeeding with his brother, Henry Nathaniel Dar-
rell, in 1872 to the firm, which then became known as
Darrell & Company. After the death of his brother in
1880, he continued alone for four years, then taking Mr.
Francis M. Ronan as a partner. The firm later added to
its business sponge importing from Havana, Cuba, in
connection with Lorenzo Ferran of that city.

Mr. Darrell gave up his business in New York in 1888,
and the following year went to the island of Great Inagua
in the Bahamas, for the purpose of building up an old salt
manufacturing and transportation company started by his
father in 1867, under a charter from the Nassau Govern-
ment, as well as one from New York State, and of which
he had become president in 1880. While in Inagua, he
became agent for various steamship companies, furnishing
stevedores for work in West Indian ports and contract
laborers for several companies in the United States and
Great Britain for work in mahogany camps and banana
fields all through the different republics of Central America.
He had also served as agent for Lloyds of London, and
for several underwriters' boards of the United States,
Germany and Norway. In the spring of 1903 he returned
to New York City and became engaged in organizing com-
panies for operation in Haiti and Spanish Honduras, and
also acted as receiver in numerous bankruptcy cases. In
191 1 he went to Shetland to spend a year with his daugh-
ter, and in April, 1914, settled in Paignton, Devonshire,
England. At the time of his death he had retired from
all active business.

Mr. Darrell died, from angina pectoris, in Stoke Fleming,
Devonshire, England, on July 14, 1914. Cremation was at
Golders Green Crematorium, London, England.

He was married in Potsdam, N. Y., on October 15, 1873,
to Mary B. Usher (died in 1913), daughter of Bloomfield
and Anne (Usher) Usher. Two daughters were born to
them: Jean Hoffman and Lina (Mrs. Lewis Garriock).

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Theodore Akerly Lord, B.A. 1866

Born January 23, 1844, at Sag Harbor, N. Y.
Died June 17, 1914, in Yonkers, N. Y.

Theodore Akerly Lord was born at Sag Harbor, N. Y.,
on January 23, 1844, the son of Frederick William Lord
(B.A. 1821, M.D. 1828) and Louisa Smith (Akerly) Lord.
His father was elected to the House of Representatives in
1846. Entering Yale with the Class of 1865, he joined the
Class with which he was graduated at the beginning of
the second term of Freshman year. In Sophomore year he
won a first prize in declamation.

Upon graduation he entered the Columbia Law School,
where he took the degree of LL.B. in 1868. He then began
the practice of his profession in New York City, remaining
there for about a year, when he went to Stockton, Calif.
After a year's trip to Honolulu in 1870, he returned to
California, and took up his residence in San Francisco,
being engaged there as a practicing lawyer until 1^89.

Since that time his home had been in New York State,
his residence being in Yonkers, where he died on June 17,
19 14, after an illness of six months, due to Bright's disease.
Interment was in East Hampton, Long Island.

While living in California he was at one time a trustee
of the Free Public Library of San Francisco, a director
of the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind of the
State of California, president of the Industrial Home of
Mechanical Trades for the Adult Blind of California, vice
president of the South San Francisco Dock Company, and
a member of the council of the Geographical Society of
the Pacific. Of late years he had devoted his time somewhat
to literary work.

He was married in Summit, N. J., on October 12, 1869,
to Julia Clinton, daughter of Judge David S. Jones and
Mary (Clinton) Jones. Edward H. Floyd- Jones (B.A.
1892) is a nephew.

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Earlliss Porter Arvine, B.A. 1869

Born April 19, 1846, in Woonsocket, R. I.
Died June 22, 1914, in Westville, Conn.

Earlliss Porter Arvine, son of Rev. Kazlitt Arvine (BA.
Wesleyan 1841), a Baptist minister, and Mary Ann
(Porter) Arvine, was born in Woonsocket, R. I., on April
19, 1846. He received his preparation for Yale in Chesh-
ire, Conn., and at the Connecticut Literary Institution in
Suffield. He received Colloquy appointments in Junior
year and at Commencement.

In the fall of 1869 he entered the Yale School of Law,
graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Laws two years
later. During this periofl he also studied in the office of
Judge Henry E. Pardee (BA. 1856), and maintained some
connection with the city press.

He was admitted to the bar in January, 1871, and had
continued in active practice until his last illness, at the time
of his death being senior member of the firm of Arvine,
Beers & Woodruff of New Haven, in which his associates
were George E. Beers (BA. Trinity 1886, LL.B. Yale
1889), Robert J. Woodruff (BA. 1896, LL.B. 1899), and
his son, William. For a time in 1894 he was in partnership
with his classmate, Talcott H. Russell.

For several years Mr. Arvine was in poor health, and
from 1894 to 1899 traveled extensively in this country and
abroad. In politics he was a Democrat, and he was several
times the candidate of his party for municipal offices. He
had served as member for Connecticut of the Interstate
Commission for the Unification of Laws, and had also
been a member of the State Board of Mediation and Arbi-
tration. Up to his death he was a director of the Ball &
Socket Manufacturing Company of Cheshire, Conn., and of
the F. E. Spencer Company of New Haven.

Mr. Arvine was a member of the American and Connect-
icut Bar associations, in which he had served on numerous
committees, and for several years previous to his death was
president of the New Haven County Bar Association. He
was a member of St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church
of Westville and vice president of the Alliance Francois.

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His death occurred, as the result of a stroke of apoplexy,
at his home in Westville, Conn., on June 2.2, 1914.

He was married on September 2, 1871, to Alice Jane
Strong of South Manchester, Conn., who survives him
with one son, William Brown, a graduate of the College
in 1903. His daughter, Leonora Porter, died in 1895, and
his two other sons, — Earlliss Palmer and Edward Kazlitt
(Ph.B. 1903, LL.B. 1911), — in 1905 and 1914 respectively.
A sketch of the latter's life appears elsewhere in the present
volume.

William Chalmers Clarke, B.A. 1869

Born June 20, 1847, in Fort Madison, Iowa
Died June 18, 1915, on Clarke Island, Stony Creek, Conn.

William Chalmers Clarke, second of the four children of
Rev. James Augustus Clarke (B.A. 1834), a Congregational
minister, and Louisa Rachel (Thompson) Clarke, was born
in Fort Madison, Iowa, on June 20, 1847. His prepara-
tion for college was received at Williston Seminary,
Easthampton, Mass.

After a brief connection with several enterprises follow-
ing his graduation, he entered the employ of the Gilbert &
Barker Manufacturing Company, makers of fuel-gas and
oil apparatus. He continued with them, — at first as New
York manager and later as vice president, — until his retire-
ment from business in 191 1. His home was in New York
City for thirty years and for a number of years at Ridgefield
and Bloomfield, N. J.

He died at his summer home on Clarke Island, Stony
Creek, Conn., on June 18, 191 5. Interment was in the
Kensico (N. Y.) Cemetery.

On December 19, 1872, he was married in Elizabeth,
N. J., to Helen L., daughter of Henry W. and Helen Maria
(Bronson) Derby. Three children were born to them:
Henry Derby (died April 4, 1875), Robert, and Florence.
Mr. Clarke's brothers are Charles Melville Clarke (B.A.
1877) and James Kilbourne Clarke, a non-graduate member
of the Class of 1875.

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Howell Williams Robert, B.A. 1869

Born December 15, 1844, in New York City
Died August 15, 1914, in Northeast Harbor, Maine

It has been imposible to secure the desired information
for an obituary sketch of Mr. Robert in time for publication
in this volume. A sketch will appear in a subsequent issue
of the Obituary Record.

Samuel St. John McCutchen, B.A. 1870

Born January 14, 1849, in Williamsburg, N. Y.
Died June 4, 1915, in Belmar, N. J.

Samuel St. John McCutchen, who was born in Williams-
burg, N. Y., on January 14, 1849, was the son of William
Moore and Eliza (St. John) McCutchen. His preparatory
training was received at Overhiser's School in Brooklyn,
N. Y., and in college he sang on the Beethoven Glee Club,
was a member of the Wooden Spoon Committee, and played
on the Class and University Baseball teams, being captain
of the latter in 1869 and 1870. He received an Oration
appointment in Junior year and a Dissertation at Com-
mencement, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

He was graduated from the Columbia Law School in
1872, having studied there for two years, and since that
time had been engaged in the practice of law in New York
City. He was for a short time in the office of Mr. John M.
Scribner, Jr., but in 1875 started an independent practice.
For more than twenty years he was a member of the firm
of Fletcher, McCutchen & Brown, in which, at the time of
his death, his associates were George H. Fletcher (B.A.
Dartmouth 1872, LL.B. New York University 1874), Alfred
L. Brown (LL.B. Columbia 1889), and James H. Richards
(B.A. 1895, LL.B. New York University 1898).

His home had been in Plainfield, N. J., since 1870,
although for the past three years he had spent most of his
time in New York City and at his summer home in Belmar,
N. J., where he died, as the result of heart disease, on June

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4, 191 5. He was buried in the family plot in the Baptist
Cemetery in Plainfield.

From 1896 until 191 1 Mr. McCutchen rendered efficient
service as a member of the New Jersey State Board of
Education, of which for a number of years he was the presi-
dent. In 1898 he was appointed by the governor one
of three commissioners to revise the public school laws
of the state, an undertaking which required his attention
for the next five years. Other educational projects had
engaged his interest at different times, and his support had
been given to the various charitable organizations of Plain-
field. He was a member of the board of trustees of the
First Baptist Church of Plainfield until a year ago, when
he retired.

Mr. McCutchen's marriage took place in Plainfield on
June 15, 1876, to Helen Marsh, daughter of Elston and
Eliza (Stelle) Marsh, who survives him, as do their two
sons: William Marsh (B.A. Yale 1900) and Roy Marsh,
a student at Stevens Institute of Technology. Their second
child, Helen Marsh, died at the age of two years.

Samuel Atwater Raymond, B.A. 1870

Born August 27, 1845, in Cleveland, Ohio
Died February 9, 1915, in Cleveland, Ohio

Samuel Atwater Raymond was born in Cleveland, Ohio,
on August 2.7, 1845, tne son °f Samuel and Mary (North)
Raymond. The Norths were early settlers and founders
of the manufacturing interests in New Britain, Conn. His
preparation for college was received partly at Williston
Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., and partly under Profes-
sor Josiah Clark (B.A. 1833) m Northampton. At Yale he
was a member of Linonia, and in Sophomore year was
awarded a prize in declamation.

The nine years following his graduation he spent in
the wholesale dry goods business in Cleveland, during most
of that period as a partner in the firm of Raymond, Low
& Company, a business established by his father in 1836.
He then entered the office of Mr. Amasa Stone, his wife's
uncle, and remained with him for several years. Since
1883 he had been engaged in the real estate business.

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Mr. Raymond had served as a trustee of the University
School of Cleveland and as an elder and the treasurer of
the First Presbyterian Church. He was a corporate mem-
ber of the Children's Aid Society and a trustee of the Home
for Aged Women, and had held various offices in the Yale
Alumni Association of Cleveland. At one time he was
a director of the Lake Huron Iron Company.

Mr. Raymond's death occurred at his home in Cleveland
on February 9, 191 5, after an illness of fourteen weeks, due
to cancer. The burial was at Lake View Cemetery in
Cleveland.

His marriage took place in that city on January 20, 1875,
to Emma E., daughter of Daniel and Hulda (Gleason)
Stone, and sister of Daniel E. Stone (Ph.B. 1879). Six
children were born to them: Mary, who married Edward
Mason Williams (B.A. 1893) ; Hilda, who is the wife of
Frederick Ely Williamson (B.A. 1898) ; Henry Augustine,
a graduate of the College in 1905 ; Julia ; Samuel Edward
(B.A. 1913), and Jonathan Stone, a member of the College
Class of 1917.

Edwin Russell Stearns, B.A. 1870

Born January 10, 1847, in Cincinnati, Ohio
Died October 24, 1914, in Wyoming, Ohio

Edwin Russell Stearns, son of George Sullivan and
Amelia (Stephenson) Stearns, and a descendant of Isaac
Stearns, who came to Salem, Mass., in the Arbella in 1630,
and afterwards settled in Watertown, was born on Jan-
uary 10, 1847, m Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was prepared
for college at the Woodward High School, later attending
the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven. In Freshman
year at Yale he held a Woolsey Scholarship, the next year
won a first prize in English composition, and he received
a Junior rhetorical prize and Oration appointments. He
belonged to Brothers in Unity and Phi Beta Kappa.

Soon after graduation he went abroad with his class-
mate, Thomas J. Tilney, spending the winter of 1870-71 at
Hanover in the study of German. He afterwards traveled
through Germany and Switzerland, and then returned to
his native city, where he had since been engaged in the

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manufacturing of cotton wadding and batting, in connec-
tion with the Stearns & Foster Company, founded by his
father, and of which he became secretary and treasurer.

He had also traveled extensively in this country, and
had made other trips to Europe. For many years Mr.
Stearns was secretary and treasurer of the Cincinnati Chil-
dren's Home, becoming its president in 1910, and, as a
trustee of Berea College, he had served as chairman of the
investment committee of the institution.

He died in Wyoming, Ohio, on October 24, 1914, the
cause of his death being an attack of angina pectoris. He
was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati.

Mr. Stearns was married on June 14, 1883, to Luella,
daughter of Caleb Burroughs and Eunice (Horton) Evans.
They had four children : Dorothy Amelia ; Evans Foster ;
George Sullivan, a non-graduate member of the Class of
1915 S., and Edwin Russell, Jr. (died on July 18, 1907).
The daughter was married on November 13, 1909, to Mr.
A. Lee Thurman of Columbus, Ohio. Russell S. D wight
(B.A. 1907) and Harold S. Dwight (Ph.B. 1914) are
nephews of Mr. Stearns.

Nathaniel Eugene Wordin, B.A. 1870

Born May 26, 1844 in Bridgeport, Conn.
Died May 10, 1915, in Bridgeport, Conn.

Nathaniel Eugene Wordin was born on May 26, 1844, in
Bridgeport, Conn., the son of Nathaniel Sherwood Wordin,
a druggist of that city, and Fanny Augusta (Leavenworth)
Wordin, being a descendant of Thomas Cooke, who set-
tled in New Haven Colony in 1639, later becoming one of
the founders of the town of Guilford, and of Rev. Samuel
Cooke (B.A. 1705), a member of the Yale Corporation
from 1732 to 1746. His mother was the daughter of Fred-
erick Leavenworth, for many years postmaster at Water-
bury, Conn., and the granddaughter of Colonel Jesse
Leavenworth and Dr. Abner Johnson, both of the Class
of 1759. Through her he is also descended from Dr. Sam-
uel Johnson (B.A. 1714), who in 1754 became first presi-

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dent of King's College (now Columbia). His preparatory
training was received at the Golden Hill Institute in his
native town, under Rev. Guy B. Day (B.A. 1845), an(i
before coming to Yale he served through the Civil War as
a member of Company I, Sixth Connecticut Regiment. He
belonged to Linonia in college, and received Colloquy
appointments.

Beginning his medical studies at Yale in the fall of 1870,
he completed his course at the Jefferson Medical College in
Philadelphia, where he was granted an M.D. degree in
1872. Three years later he formed a partnership for the
practice of medicine and surgery in Bridgeport with Dr.
Robert Lauder (M.D. 1871), which he continued until
1879. Except for a brief period when he went to Phila-
delphia to take a special course of study on the eye, with
the intention of accepting an appointment on the staff of
the medical college at Aintab, Turkey, a plan which he
shortly abandoned, he had since followed his profession
independently in Bridgeport, where his practice had become
extensive.

Dr. Wordin was at one time on the staff of the Bridgeport
Hospital, and for many years he served as attending
physician to the Bridgeport Protestant Orphan Asylum.
From 1890 to 1899 he was a member of the Connecticut
State Board of Health. While holding office as secretary of
the State Medical Society (from 1888 to 1905), Dr. Wordin
compiled the annual reports of the organization, and in
1902 he edited its centenary volume, a book of more than
a thousand pages. In 1905 he was chosen president of that
society. His contributions to medical journals and other
publications had been numerous, and he had often delivered
addresses before various bodies. He served for some time
on the advisory board of the Yale Medical Journal. He
was a deacon in the First Congregational Church of Bridge-
port, and his aid had been given to the work of the Chris-
tian Endeavor and the Young Men's Christian Association.
In 1892 he took a trip to Mexico, and six years later went
to the Pacific Coast.

He died, from cerebral apoplexy, after an illness of three
weeks, on May 10, 191 5, at his home in Bridgeport. He
was buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery in that city.

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His marriage took place on December 25, 1879, m Wil-
mington, Del., to Eliza Woodruff, daughter of Julius Steele
Barnes (B.A. 1815, M.D. 1818) and Laura (Lewis)
Barnes, and granddaughter of Jonathan Barnes (B.A.
1784). She survives him, but their daughter, Laura Barnes,
died in 1913. Mrs. Wordin's brother, Lewis, graduated
from the College in 1847, and had a son, John Steele Barnes,
a member of the Class of 1891 in the School of Medicine.
Thomas Cooke Wordin (B.A. 1878), who died in 1905,
was a brother of Dr. Wordin.

Franklin Arnold, B.A. 1871

Born March 25, 1850, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Died January 21, 191 5, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Franklin Arnold was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on March
25, 1850, the son of Daniel S. and Louisa M. Arnold/and
was prepared for college at a private school in that place.
He entered Yale with the Class of 1870, but joined 'ji in
its Sophomore year. While in college he was a member of
Brothers in Unity.

After graduation he traveled in Europe for some months,
and then engaged in the dry goods and commission business
with his brother, Edward Arnold, under the firm name of
Arnold & Banning, and afterwards he was manager of a
Chicago branch of that firm. In 1877 he became a custom
house broker in New York.

He took up the export business for himself in 1878, and
while visiting Central America, with which he conducted
his business entirely, Mr. Arnold contracted a malarial
fever. He was consequently obliged to return to the United
States soon after 1880, so broken in health that he never
recovered, and he died, after many years of invalidism, at
the home of a sister in Brooklyn on January 21, 19 15, and
was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.

He had never married. His brother, William Arnold,
took his B.A. at Yale in 1876 and his LL.B. at Columbia
in 1878.

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Joseph Arthur Burr, B.A. 1871

Born September n, 1850, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Died April 18, 1915, in New York City

Joseph Arthur Burr was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on
September 11, 1850, the son of Joseph Arthur Burr, a manu-
facturer, who had passed most of his life in New York
and Brooklyn, and Harriet (Nash) Burr. He was the
grandson of General Gershom Burr, an officer in the War
of 1812, whose father was Peter Burr, a chief judge of the
Superior Court of Connecticut. His paternal grandmother
was a granddaughter of William Pynchon, one of the set-
tlers of Springfield, Mass., her father being Rev. Andrew
Eliot, a graduate of Harvard in 1762, who received an
honorary degree from Yale in 1774. His earlier ancestors
came from Kent, England, in 1630, and settled in Rox-
bury, Mass. He was fitted for college at Wilton Academy,
Wilton, Conn., and entered college with the Class of 1870,
leaving them on account of illness at the end of Freshman
year, and joining '71 at the beginning of Sophomore year.
He was a member of Brothers in Unity, the Beethoven
Society, and Phi Beta Kappa, received prizes in English
composition and Dissertation appointments, and was elected
Class poet.

He received the degree ot LL.B. in 1873 from the
Columbia Law School, and practiced law in Brooklyn from
the time of his admission to the bar in May of the next
year until his appointment to the bench of the Supreme
Court of the state of New York on December 27, 1904,
except from 1896 to 1898, when he was corporation counsel
for Brooklyn. He was appointed to the bench by Governor
Odell to serve an unexpired term, but in November, 1905, he
was elected to serve the full term of fourteen years to succeed
Justice Willard Bartlett. Since January 1, 1909, he had
been a member of the Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court for the Second Department through assignment by
the governor, and was in active service as an appellate
judge up to the time of his death. While in active prac-
tice he was at different times a member of the firms of
Jackson & Burr, Burr & Coombs, and Burr, Coombs &
Wilson, and during this period he had served as counsel

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for the First National Bank of Brooklyn and the New York
& Brooklyn Refining Company, as a trustee and secretary of
the Kings County Savings Institution, and at one time as
counsel to the sheriff of Kings County. He had also been
president of the Burr & Houston Company.

He was a ruling elder in the First Presbyterian Church,
and for a number of years served as president of the board
of trustees of the Presbytery of Brooklyn. He was an hon-
orary member of the New York State Bar Association, and
a member of the Brooklyn Bar Association, the New Eng-
land Society, the Sons of the Revolution, and the Long
Island Historical Society. As an officer in many of these
organizations and others, he had often delivered addresses,
as well as speaking on various anniversaries and public
occasions, both in Brooklyn and elsewhere.

His death occurred on April 18, 1915, in the New York
Hospital, where he had gone a few days before for an
operation, from which he failed to recuperate. Interment
was in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.

He was married on October 22, 1874, in New Haven to
Ella Anzonetta, daughter of William Holt and Martha
(Wilmot) Dawson of that city. Mrs. Burr survives her
husband, and he leaves also two daughters: Harriet Nash
(Mrs. Edward Pell Folger) and Jessye Dawson (Mrs.
Howard Carlisle London).

Schuyler Brinckerhoff Jackson, B.A. 1871

Born June 16, 1849, in Newark, N. J.
Died July 28, 1914, at Narragansett Pier, R. I.

Schuyler BrinckerhofT Jackson was born in Newark,
N. J., on June 16, 1849, the youngest of the nine children
of John Peter Jackson (B.A. Princeton 1823) and Eliza-
beth Huntington (Wolcott) Jackson. His father, whose
parents were Peter and Hester (BrinckerhofT) Jackson,
had taken a prominent part in the affairs of the state of
New Jersey ; among other things he had served in the legis-
lature, and was the principal originator and founder of the
New Jersey Railroad & Transportation Company. The
founder of the family in this country was James Jackson,
who came to New York about 1746. His mother was a

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daughter of Judge Frederick Wolcott (B.A. 1786), and a
granddaughter of Oliver Wolcott (B.A. 1747), one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence and a governor
of Connecticut. He was prepared at the Newark Academy
and at Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., and, entering
Yale with the Class of 1870, joined the Class with which he
graduated in April of Junior year. He was a member of
Linonia, the Beethoven Society, and the Glyuna Boat Club,
and in his Sophomore year received a third prize for
declamation.

He studied law at Columbia University after graduation,
later being admitted to the New Jersey Bar, and since then
he had been engaged in the practice of his profession. For
a number of years, beginning in 1878, he served as special
master in chancery and Supreme Court commissioner for
New Jersey, and he had also held the positions of corpora-
tion counsel for the towns of East Newark and Harrison,
and attorney for the Fidelity Trust Company, as well as
for a large number of corporations and business houses.

He was at one time an alderman, a member of the state
legislature (being chosen Speaker of the House in 1879),
chairman of the Commission of State Prison Revision, a
member of the Newark Common Council, and of the State
Board of Education. In 1889 he was the Republican
nominee for mayor of Newark.

He had taken three trips abroad, — in 1869, I^83, and
1906, — during the first of which he took a course of lectures
at the University of Berlin. His travels had embraced
Great Britain, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Belgium,
France, and much of his own country. He had written
a number of articles and essays, making numerous contri-
butions to the press and magazines. Mr. Jackson was an
elder in the South Park Presbyterian Church of Newark,
of which he had been a trustee for twenty-seven years,
serving at one time as president of the board.

He died at Narragansett Pier, R. I., on July 28, 1914.
The development of an attack of Bright's disease, from
which he had suffered for a year, was the direct cause of
his death. Burial was in the family lot in Mount Pleasant
Cemetery. By his will bequests were made to Yale Uni-
versity for a scholarship and for annual cash prizes for
English essays, and he also gave legacies to both of his
preparatory schools.

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Mr. Jackson was married in San Francisco, Calif., on
February 27, 1889, to Angela, daughter of Andrew B. and
Kate K. (Thompson) Forbes, who survives him. His
brothers were F. Wolcott Jackson, who studied in the Shef-
field Scientific School in 1852, and who received an honor-
ary M.A. from Yale in 1892; General Joseph C. Jackson
(B.A. 1857, LL.B. New York University 1859 and Har-
vard i860) ; John P. Jackson (B.A. Princeton 1856), and
Huntington W. Jackson (B.A. Princeton 1864, LL.B. Har-
vard 1868), who served as a colonel in the Civil War.
Two nephews are Joseph C. Jackson (Ph.B. 1887) and
John D. Jackson (B.A. 1890).

Charles Reed, B.A. 1871

Born July 19, 1847, in Abington, Mass.
Died October 21, 1914, in West Newton, Mass.

Charles Reed, son of Ezekiel and Cephisa (Studley)
Reed, was born in Abington, Mass., on July 19, 1847, and
was prepared for Yale at Williston Seminary in Easthamp-
ton, Mass. His paternal ancestors were early settlers in
Weymouth and Abington.

After graduating from the College, he entered the Yale
School of Law, where, in 1874, he received the degree of
LL.B. Subsequently he practiced his profession for about
a year in New Haven and then for a while in Ansonia,
Conn. During 1881-82 he served as judge of the Probate
Court in Derby, Conn.

His home had been for thirty years in Massachusetts,
and at different times he had been interested in various
manufacturing concerns. He had traveled somewhat
throughout the South, Bermuda, and the Windward Islands.

Mr. Reed died suddenly, from Bright's disease, at his
home in West Newton, Mass., on October 21, 19 14. Burial
was in Mount Vernon Cemetery in his native town.

He was married on November 28, 1878, in New Haven,
Conn., to Ellen M. H., daughter of Frederick and Sybil
Celestia (Tuttle) Foote, who survives him with their
daughter, Celeste Foote, now the wife of John Ames
Chipperfield.

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Artemas Allerton Murch, B.A. 1872

Born February 19, 1848, in Corinna, Maine
Died January 12, 1915, in Warsaw, N. Y.

Artemas Allerton Murch was born in Corinna, Maine, on
February 19, 1848, his parents being Benjamin Grant and
Louisa Small (Libby) Murch. His father was engaged
during most of his life as a shoemaker and mason in
Carmel, Maine. He was fitted for college at the East Maine
Conference Seminary at Bucksport, and before coming to
Yale taught school at intervals. In college he was a
member of Brothers in Unity, being its president in Senior
year, and served on the Class Picture Committee. He
received prizes in mathematics and English composition
in Sophomore year, a Townsend premium in Junior year,
and Oration appointments that year and at Commencement.

During the two years following his graduation he taught
at Staples Institute in Easton, Conn., after which he entered
upon the study of theology at Yale. His course was inter-
rupted in 1875, when he went to Atlanta, Ga., to take a
professorship in mathematics at Atlanta University. He
returned to Yale in the fall of 1876, two years later
receiving the degree of B.D.

After serving as an instructor in rhetoric, English liter-
ature, and Anglo-Saxon at Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa,
for a year, he became pastor of the Congregational Church
at Chesterfield, 111., where he was located until 1881. For
the next eight years he was engaged in teaching and
preaching in different towns in New England.

He was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal
Church in 1889, and to the priesthood the following year.
From 1889 to 1891 he was located at Sherman and Winn,
Maine, after which he passed two years in Leonardtown,
Md., as rector of St. Andrew's Church. He held the rec-
torship of Christ Church, Salmon Falls, N. H., from 1892
until 1903, and during the next six years was in Vermont,
having charges at Newport and North Troy. Since 1909
he had been rector of Trinity Church at Warsaw, N. Y.,
having charge also of St. Luke's parish at Attica.

He had published "The Story of the Prayer Book," as
well as a number of sermons, articles, and addresses.

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Mr. Murch died, after a short illness from neuralgia of
the heart, at his home in Warsaw on January 12, 191 5. His
body was taken to Carmel, Maine, for burial.

He had never married, and is survived by two sisters
and a brother. The latter, Ben Wilton Murch, attended
Yale during 1877-78, and graduated from Bates College at
Lewiston, Maine, in 1882.

Charles Henry Reed, B.A. 1872

Born January 26, 1852, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Died November 23, 1914, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Charles Henry Reed, son of Thomas Sydenham Reed
(M.D. Jefferson Medical College 1846) and Mary Wood-
nut (Shinn) Reed, was born January 26, 1852, in Philadel-
phia, Pa., where his preparation for college was received
at the Episcopal Academy. At Yale he was a member of
Brothers in Unity, and received Dispute appointments.

After graduating he spent a year with H. C. Archibald
& Company, manufacturing chemists, of Philadelphia, and
another year in the study of law. He then entered the
University of Pennsylvania, from which he received the
degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1878.

After several years of practice in his native town, he
went to Vienna, where he studied for seven years, making
a specialty of the eye. Returning to Philadelphia, Dr. Reed
resumed active practice as an eye specialist, and continued
in that work until April, 1914, when his health failed. The
summer of that year was spent in Germany in an endeavor
to regain his strength, and at the outbreak of the war he
was in Hamburg, where he was compelled to remain until
September 12, when he sailed for home; the strain and
excitement of the war and the journey were too much for
an already weakened condition, and he died in Philadelphia
on November 23, 1914.

He was married on December 12, 1883, in Vienna, Aus-
tria, to Louisa Johanna, daughter of Johan Schmeral, a
graduate of the University of Vienna. Mrs. Reed sur-
vives him. They had four children: Emlen Shinn (died
April 13, 1893) ; Martha Clawson (B.A. Vassar 1910) ;
Marian, and Anna Lee. The late Bradbury Bedell (B.A.
1876) married one of Dr. Reed's sisters.

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Charles Joseph Hardy Ropes, B.A. 1872

Born December 7, 1851, in St. Petersburg, Russia
Died January 5, 1915, in Bangor, Maine

Charles Joseph Hardy Ropes, son of William Hooper
and Ellen Harriet (Hall) Ropes, was born on December 7,
185 1, in St. Petersburg, Russia, where his father was
serving as United States consul. His preparation for col-
lege was received at the City of London School in London,
England, the Gymnasium at Arnstadt, near Erfurt, Ger-
many, and at the Sorbonne in Paris. Upon graduating
from the City of London School he was awarded a valu-
able scholarship, but resigned it in favor of a needy class-
mate, the son of a missionary. Coming to this country in
1869, he entered Yale with the Class of 1873, but was soon
advanced by examination to the Class of 1872, with which
he completed his work. In his Sophomore year he received
two prizes in English composition, and in Junior year he
was given the first Clark premium. The next year a Town-
send premium and a John Addison Porter prize were
awarded to him. He belonged to Phi Beta Kappa, and was
given Oration appointments.

After graduation Mr. Ropes spent a year in Europe in
study and travel, upon his return to this country entering
the Middle Class at Andover Theological Seminary, from
which he was graduated in 1875. He was then for a year
at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City,
where he devoted his time to the study of church history.

His ordination occurred in August, 1877, and for the
next four years he was located at Ellsworth, Maine, as
pastor of the Congregational Church. In 1881 he resigned
that charge to accept a professorship in sacred literature
at the Bangor (Maine) Theological Seminary. The follow-
ing year he was appointed to the Hayes professorship of
New Testament language and literature, which he held
until 1905. For twenty-four years he had also served
as librarian at the seminary. Illness compelled him to give
up most activities several years ago.

In 1879, in conjunction with Professor Egbert Coffin
Smyth (B.A. Bowdoin 1848) of Andover Theological Sem-
inary, he edited and published a translation of Dr. Ger-
hard Uhlhorn's "Conflict of Christianity with Heathenism."

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He had contributed many articles to theological journals.
The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was con-
ferred upon him by both Yale and Bowdoin in 1894. He
was a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and
Exegesis.

Professor Ropes died, from paralysis, after an illness of
nine months, in Bangor on January 5, 191 5, interment being
in that town.

His marriage took place in Westfield, N. J., on October
4, 1877, t0 Annie Marvin, daughter of Edward Homer and
Julia Elizabeth (Marvin) Ladd. Mrs. Ropes survives him
with their six children: Ellen Marvin (B.A. Bryn Mawr
1902, M.A. University of Maine 1908), who married Rev.
Gottfried Martin Horn in 1909; Annie Margaret (B.A.
Bryn Mawr 1903); Marvin; Alice Rogers (B.A. Bryn
Mawr 1906), who was married in 1909 to Rev. Edwin
Dwight Kellogg; John Francis, and Mary Katharine.

Charles Lehmer, B.A. 1873

Born August 7, 1850, in Cincinnati, Ohio
Died June 26, 1914, in Cincinnati, Ohio

Charles Lehmer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August
7, 1850, the son of James Dunn Lehmer, a merchant, and
Jane Bryce (Isham) Lehmer, and was prepared for Yale
at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. On the paternal
side of the family he was of Pennsylvania ancestry; his
mother's people came from Connecticut, being descendants
of Colonel Henry Champion, and of the Ishams, Gilberts,
Stantons, and others of Colonial days ; Edward Fuller, who
came to this country on the Mayflower, was also an ancestor.
In college he served on the Junior Promenade and Class
Day committees.

Upon his graduation he spent some sixteen months
abroad, the first part of the time in travel in the British
Isles, and about one year attending lectures at the College
de France in Paris.

For two years after his return to this country he was
with the pig iron commission house of Matthew Addy &
Company in Cincinnati. He then began the study of law,
and, in 1878, was graduated from the Cincinnati Law

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School. In April of the same year he was admitted to the
bar, and since that time he had been engaged in the prac-
tice of his profession in his native town. In recent years
Mr. Lehmer gave much of his attention to the development
of real estate interests, in which he was very successful.

He died in Cincinnati on June 26, 1914, his death being
caused by cerebro-spinal meningitis, resulting from the
effects of an operation performed three or four weeks
earlier. Burial was in the family lot in Spring Grove
Cemetery in that city.

Mr. Lehmer was unmarried, and is survived by his
mother, a brother, Gilbert Lehmer, a non-graduate member
of the Class of 1874, and two sisters. He was interested
in many charities, and gave liberally, especially in connec-
tion with St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Cathedral, Cin-
cinnati, where he installed an organ about six years ago
as a memorial to his father.

Everton Judson Latimer, B.A. 1874

Born October 14, 1849, in Norwalk, Ohio
Died February 11, 1915, in Cleveland, Ohio

Everton Judson Latimer, son of Cortland Lucas Latimer,
who was for two years a member of the Class of 1832 at
Yale, withdrawing in Sophomore year and entering Rutgers
College, where he was graduated in 1832, and who was
enrolled with his Class at Yale in 1879, was b°rn on
October 14, 1849, m Norwalk, Ohio, being the grandson
of Pickett Latimer (B.A. 1818). His father was engaged
in the practice of law in Norwalk for many years, later
being located in Cleveland. His mother was Charlotte,
daughter of Rev. Abel McEwen (B.A. 1804), who served
as a member of the Yale Corporation from 1826 until his
death in i860, and sister of Rev. Robert McEwen, who
graduated from Yale in 1827.

Before coming to Yale he spent a year at Western
Reserve College, for which he was prepared at the high
school in Cleveland, Ohio. He was for three years a mem-
ber of the Class of 1873 at Yale, and joined the Class with
which he was graduated at the beginning of its Junior
year.

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After graduation he read law with his father in Cleve-
land until the fall of 1875, when he entered the Columbia
Law School. In September of the following year he was
admitted to the bar in Cleveland, where he had since been
engaged in the practice of his profession. Since 1879 he
had devoted himself to office business, being chiefly
occupied with the management of estates and the execution
of various trusts.

Mr. Latimer died, from pneumonia, at his home in Cleve-
land on February 11, 1915. Interment was in his native
town.

His marriage took place in Cleveland on August 15, 1878,
to Ella Crittenden, daughter of General Henry Harrison
Dodge, son of Samuel Dodge, who came to Cleveland in
1798. Mrs. Latimer, whose mother was Mary Ann (Wil-
ley) Dodge, survives her husband. They had one child,
Irene Battell, who died on June 2, 1890.

Theodore Frelinghuysen Leigh ton, B.A. 1874

Born August 16, 1849, in Tunkhannock, Pa.
Died January 17, 1915, in Chicago, 111.

Theodore Frelinghuysen Leighton was born in Tunk-
hannock, Pa., on August 16, 1849, the son of Nathan and
Ruth (Gardner) Leighton, and received his preparatory
training at the Blairstown Presbyterian Academy and at
Mount Retirement Seminary, both New Jersey schools.
In Freshman year at Yale he held the Hurlbut Scholar-
ship, and the first term of Sophomore year he was given
a second prize for excellence in English composition. He
was a member of Linonia, and received an Oration appoint-
ment in Junior year and a Dispute at Commencement.

Upon graduation Mr. Leighton opened a private school
for boys in Stamford, Conn., and after teaching there for
a short time, was similarly engaged in Norwalk, that state,
until 1877, when he went to Yonkers, N. Y., where for
the next ten years he was located as head of a preparatory
school for boys. He assisted in the direction of a military
school in Portland, Maine, in 1887, and during the next
year was head of the mathematics department of Washburn
College, Topeka, Kans., where he later had charge of the
department of Greek.

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In 1890 he was chosen principal of Erie Academy at
Erie, Pa., but after a year in that place removed to
Chicago, 111. He had since been engaged in high school
work there, and since 1895 ^a(^ been continuously at the
Hyde Park High School, instructing in mathematics during
most of the time.

He died at his home in that city on January 17, 191 5,
the cause of his death being acute nephritis. His body was
taken to Tunkhannock for burial.

Mr. Leighton's marriage took place in Hudson, N. Y.,
on July 26, 1875, to Gertrude Amelia, daughter of Charles
William Scofield, a contractor and builder of Stamford,
Conn., and Cordelia (Ingersoll) Scofield. Their children
were: Hugh Guthrie (died March 1, 1903), who took a
B.A. degree at the University of Chicago in 1900 ; Kenneth ;
Ruth Gardner (died March 14, 1885) ; Cordelia Ingersoll
(died May 6, 1883) ; Alden Flagg (died February 19,
1885), and Helen Constance. Mrs. Leighton died in Chi-
cago on November 11, 19 14. James Leighton (B.A. 1881)
and William F. Gillespie (B.A. 1900) were related to Mrs.
Leighton.

Arthur Dexter Whittemore, B.A. 1874

Born August 11, 1852, in Fitzwilliam, N. H.
Died May 29, 191 5, in Utica, N. Y.

Arthur Dexter Whittemore, son of Thomas Wright and
Atossa (Frost) Whittemore, was born in Fitzwilliam, N. H.,
on August 11, 1852. The first Thomas Whittemore came
to Massachusetts from Hitchin, England, in 1640, and
became one of the earliest settlers of Charlestown. The
Whittemore homestead remained in the family until May
1, 1845, a period of over two hundred years. Graduating
from Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., as valedic-
torian of his class, he spent about six months at the College
of the City of New York before entering Yale. In college
he received Oration appointments and a number of prizes
in English composition, and was on the editorial board of
the Lit and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

His first connection after graduation was with his father
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the mirror business conducted by them under the name of
Whittemore Brothers. He continued there until 1881, at
that time removing to Utica, N. Y., where he had since
made his home. For five years he was in the wholesale
clothing business as a member of the firm of Tucker, Calder
& Company, and later he became a dealer in investment
securities.

His health failed about 1883, and, although for a time
he was able to continue his business, in 1888 he was com-
pelled to give up all activities. His condition had never
improved, and he died at his home on May 29, 191 5, after
many years of invalidism. Interment was in Forest Hill
Cemetery, Utica.

His marriage took place on December 14, 1876, in Utica
to Margaret E., daughter of James Pierce Owen, a mer-
chant of that city, and Rebecca (Griffith) Owen. She
survives him with their two daughters: Atossa Frost and
Margaret, the latter being the wife of Rev. Kenneth Brake-
ley Welles (B.A. 1908). Their oldest child, Owen, died
on December 26, 1881. Mr. Whittemore was a member of
the First Presbyterian Church of Utica.

Samuel Isham, B.A. 1875

Born May 12, 1855, in New York City
Died June 12, 1914, in Easthampton, N. Y.

Samuel Isham, son of William Bradley Isham, a merchant
and banker, and Julia (Burhans) Isham, was born in New
York City on May 12, 1855, and was prepared for college
at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. In college he was
on the Record board during 1874-75, and he received
Colloquy appointments both Junior and Senior years.

The three years following graduation were spent in travel
in Europe, after which, in the fall of 1878, he entered the
Columbia Law School. Two years later he was admitted to
the New York Bar, and then was for a short time in the
office of Lord, Day & Lord. In the fall of 1881, he formed
a partnership with George E. Coney (B.A. 1876). Upon
the dissolution of this partnership after a few years, Mr.
Isham went abroad, studying art in Paris from 1885 to
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had resided in New York City, continuing his painting, and
he had exhibited to quite an extent, both abroad and in this
country. He was a member of the art jury of the Buffalo
Pan-American Exposition, received a silver medal at the
St. Louis Exposition in 1904, and was the author of "A
History of American Painting/' In 1901 he received the
degree of B.F.A. at Yale.

He was a National Academician, a director of the Ameri-
can Fine Arts Society, and a member of the National Insti-
tute of Arts and Letters, and of the Century, Players, and
Salmagundi clubs.

On June 12, 1914, while playing golf on the links of
the Maidstone Country Club at Easthampton, N. Y., an
artery burst, and in spite of the efforts of two physicians
who reached him immediately, Mr. Isham bled to death.
He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York.

He had never married. His brother, Charles Isham,
who survives him, was also for a time a member of the
Class of 1875, later graduating from Harvard. One of
Mr. Isham's paintings, entitled "Figure with Two Hounds/'
was presented to Yale from his estate.

Albert York Smith, B.A. 1875

Born January 15, 1854, in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Died June 7, 1915, in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Albert York Smith was born on January 15, 1854, in
Pittsburgh, Pa., the son of Curtis Benjamin Miner Smith,
a non-graduate member of the Class of 1837 at Amherst,
who received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from
that institution in 1852, and whose parents were Benjamin
Bostwick and Calista (Terrill) Smith. His mother was
Hannah Jacobs, daughter of John Washburn, whose ances-
tors came from England in 1632 and settled at Duxbury,
Mass., and Millicent (Stone) Washburn. Through his
father he was descended from James York, who, coming
from England in 1635, settled first in Virginia, later remov-
ing to New England. He was prepared for college at Ayers
Latin School in his native city.

He began the study of law in the office of Smith & Ray-
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graduation, but in April, 1877, entered the office of Major
Samuel Harper, remaining there until January, 1881, when
he started an independent practice, in which he had since
continued. His admission to the bar occurred in November,
1880.

In June, 1889, he was appointed, under the Act of 1869,
register in bankruptcy for the western district of Pennsyl-
vania, and served until his death, in so far as there was
any settled business under the Act. From October, 1897,
until 1903 he held office as secretary of the Allegheny
County Bar Association, in 1904 and 191 5 he was vice
president, and in 1907 president. He had been president of
the Mount Washington Board of Trade, and at the time of
his death was president of the South Hills Board of
Trade. He had served as vice president of the Yale Alumni
Association of Pittsburgh. He was a member of the
Society of Colonial Wars, a director of the Mount Lebanon
Cemetery Company, a director and solicitor in the East
End Homestead Loan & Trust Company and the Allegheny
County Homestead Loan & Trust Company, and partner
and solicitor in the A. A. Gilson Company, Ltd. He
belonged to the Shady Side Presbyterian Church. He had
contributed somewhat to the newspapers, and at one time
was a reporter on the staff of the Pittsburgh Legal Journal.

Mr. Smith died, after an illness of about two years, due
to diabetes, at his home in Pittsburgh on June 7, 191 5.
Interment was in Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Mount
Lebanon Township, Allegheny County.

His marriage took place on October 4, 1888, in Williams-
port, Pa., to Amy Lucretia, daughter of Jeremiah Jeffry
and Cordelia (Derby) Ayres of Williamsport, Pa., who
died on April 10, 1915. Their only child, Jeffry Ayres, died
shortly after birth. Edwin Whittier Smith (B.A. 1878) is
a brother.

John Kean, B.A. 1876

Born December 4, 1852, in Ursino, N. J.
Died November 4, 1914, in Ursino, N. J.

John Kean was the eldest son of John and Lucy (Hal-
sted) Kean, and was born at Ursino, N. J., on December
4, 1852. He received his preparation for college in Stock-

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bridge, Mass., and at Churchill's School, Sing Sing (now
Ossining), N. Y. In Sophomore year he left the Class,
and entered the Columbia Law School, from which he
was graduated in 1875. In 1890 he was given the honor-
ary degree of M.A. by Yale, and had since been enrolled
with the Class of 1876.

He was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in 1877, but so
many business interests at once demanded his attention that
he had never practiced law. In 1893 he was elected first
vice president of the Manhattan Trust Company of New
York City. For many years he had been president of the
National State Bank of Elizabeth, the Elizabethtown Gas
Light Company, and the Elizabeth Water Company, as well
as of numerous other corporations.

He was twice elected to Congress as a Republican, becom-
ing a member of the Forty-eighth and Fiftieth Congresses.
He was chairman of the New Jersey State Republican
Committee during 1891-92, and the Republican candidate
for governor of New Jersey in 1892. Although not elected
to that office, he ran several thousand votes ahead of the
Republican electoral ticket for Harrison. He had also
served as a member of the committee to revise the judiciary-
system of the state. President McKinley offered him the
position of minister at the Court of Madrid, but he declined.
He was nominated by acclamation as party candidate of
the Republican caucus, and, on January 25, 1899, elected
United States senator from the state of New Jersey, being
reelected in 1905, at both times receiving the entire vote
of the members of his party in the legislature. He con-
tinued to serve in the Senate until the end of his term in
191 1, and throughout the twelve years was a member of
the Committee on Interstate Commerce (serving on the
Foreign Relations Committee and on various other com-
mittees at different times). He was a recognized authority
on the rules, customs, and parliamentary procedure of the
Senate, and was frequently requested by the President and
President pro tern, to preside over the body in their absence.
He was delegate-at-large to the National Republican Con-
ventions of 1896, 1900, 1904, and 1908, and in 1908 was
elected chairman of the New Jersey delegation to the
Republican Convention at Chicago, but declined in favor of
Governor Fort.

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With the exception of the winters spent in Washington,
he lived at Ursino, the colonial homestead near Elizabeth,
N. J., in which he was born, and which he inherited from
his father, and where he died on November 4, 1914, after
an illness of several months, due to Bright' s disease. Burial
was in Evergreen Cemetery, Elizabeth.

He had never married. His brother, Julian Halsted
Kean, who survives him, received his B.A. at Yale in 1876
and an LL.B. at Columbia in 1880.

Samuel Augustus Fisk, B.A. 1877

Born February 9, 1856, in Cambridge, Mass.
Died January 18, 1915, in Boston, Mass.

Samuel Augustus Fisk was born in Cambridge, Mass.,
February 9, 1856, the son of Robert Farris and Narcissa
Perry (Whittemore) Fisk. His father, a graduate of
Yale in the Class of 1844, died at a comparatively early
age, and the son was brought up in the home of his uncle
(B.A. 1844), whose name he bore, and who was a dis-
tinguished physician in Northampton, Mass. He was pre-
pared for college by Professor Josiah Clark (B.A. 1833),
a well-known educator in that town. In college he was
elected one of the Class deacons and was active as a teacher
in the Bethany Mission. He received Dispute appoint-
ments, and was one of the speakers at the Junior Exhibition,
and he also served on the Class Day Committee.

In October, 1877, he entered the Harvard Medical School,
where he took his degree in 1880, shortly afterwards
passing a successful competitive examination for the medi-
cal house staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital, a
position which he was unable to fill because of a tendency
to pulmonary disease which manifested itself about that
time.

He went to Colorado in the same year, and for a time
lived an out-of-door life on a ranch, where his health
greatly improved. As a result he was led to settle in
Denver, where in 1883 he began the practice of his pro-
fession. Soon afterwards he was elected professor of
anatomy, and later professor of diseases of the mind and
nervous system, in the Medical Department of the Univer-

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sity of Denver, becoming also secretary and dean of the
Medical Faculty.

He early made a special study of the influence of climate
upon the treatment of disease, especially tuberculosis, and
wrote many articles on the subject, two of which: "Colo-
rado for Invalids," and "Colorado as a Winter Sanita-
rium," appeared in the Popular Science Monthly for July,
1884, and March, 1886, respectively. Many of his writings
on medical and climatic topics were published in medical
journals and in pamphlet form.

He became a member of the medical staff of St. Luke's
Hospital, the County Hospital and the Deaconess' Home
of Denver, and was actively identified with the Colorado
State Medical Society, of which, in 1888, he was elected
president. Dr. Fisk had also served on the surgical staff
of the Union Pacific Railway. He was a director of the
Denver Chamber of Commerce and the Colorado Humane
Society and a trustee of the Home for Consumptives. He
early became active in the councils of the American Clima-
tological Association, of which he was subsequently elected
president. He was also chairman of the Section on Medi-
cine of the American Medical Association, and was a mem-
ber of the National Association for the Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis, the Colorado State Historical
Society, and the Denver Meteorological Society, of which
he was one of the founders and its first secretary. He had
also held office as president of the Colorado Yale Asso-
ciation. In the spring of 1903 he visited Europe as one
of the delegates from the United States to the International
Medical Congress in Madrid. He received the degree of
M.A. from Yale in 1884.

He suffered a nervous breakdown in 1898, and later
multiple sclerosis, a progressive disease, developed. As a
consequence he was compelled to retire from the active
practice of his profession, but, although leading a life of
comparative retirement, he had continued to write many
articles for medical journals and for the press. Since about
1905 his home had been in Brimfield, Mass. In 1908 he
was a delegate to the Massachusetts State Convention,
where he supported the presidential nomination of Taft.
His death occurred on January 18, 1915, in Boston, where
he was spending the winter. The burial was in the family
lot in Mount Auburn Cemetery at Cambridge.

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Dr. Fisk was married on February 2.2, 1906, at Chau-
mont, N. Y., to Clara, daughter of Waitstill and Cordelia
(Collins) Crumb of Royalston, Mass., who survives him
without children. A brother, Arthur Lyman Fisk (B.A.
1883, M.D. Harvard 1889), and a sister are also living.

Henry Martyn Rood, B.A. 1877

Born February 21, 1853, in Amanzimtoti, Natal, South Africa
Died December 4, 1914, in Port Chester, N. Y.

Henry Martyn Rood was born in Amanzimtoti, Natal,
South Africa, on February 21, 1853. He was descended
from a long line of colonial ancestors, including John and
Priscilla Alden of the Mayflower company. His father,
Rev. David Rood, graduated at Williams College in 1844,
and for more than forty years was an honored missionary
of the American Board among the Zulus in South Africa.
Henry Rood, whose mother was Alzina Virtue (Pixley)
Rood, who had studied at Mount Holyoke Seminary, came
to the United States in 1871, and prepared for college at
Phillips Academy, Andover, entering Yale in the fall of
1873. During his college course he took high rank as a
mathematician, being awarded prizes for excellence in that
subject. In Senior year he received the first Clark premium
for the solution of astronomical problems. His appoint-
ments were a Dissertation in Junior year and a Dispute at
Commencement.

A year after graduation he returned to South Africa,
where an out-of-door life greatly improved his health, which
had been very poor, and for a time he was employed there
as a government surveyor. Returning to the United States
in 1881, he subsequently entered the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute in Troy, N. Y., from which he received the degree
of Civil Engineer in 1885, taking four years' work in two.
For a time thereafter he practiced his profession in the
West, being employed in railroad construction work in
Nebraska. Later he held responsible positions in connection
with the building of elevated railroads in New York, and
of bridges and locks on the New York canals, and still later
he was employed on the New York Aqueduct. For some
years Mr. Rood lived in Mount Vernon, N. Y., and while
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in connection with municipal improvements. In 1900 he
removed to Port Chester, N. Y., where he had since
resided, being associated for much of the time with Fred-
erick S. Odell, a civil engineer. At the time of his death
he had charge of the construction of a sewer disposal plant.

He was deeply interested in church and religious work,
and was a deacon in the First Congregational Church of
Mount Vernon, and subsequently served as treasurer of
the Port Chester Congregational Church. He was a mem-
ber of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Mr. Rood
always enjoyed study, and compiled a table during his lei-
sure moments which was of great help to him in calculating
distances on land surveys. Until his death he retained a
vivid remembrance of the Zulu people, their language, and
country.

Mr. Rood died, after a week's illness from pneumonia,
at his home in Port Chester on December 4, 1914. His
body was taken to Oakham, Mass., and buried in the family
plot in Pine Grove Cemetery.

He was married in Oberlin, Ohio, on August 21, 1894,
to Grace Sarah Fairbank, daughter of William Payson and
Lurana Wilder (Fairbank) Mellen. Mrs. Rood, who took
a B.A. degree at Oberlin in 1890, survives her husband.
They had seven children: Emily Sarah, a member of the
Class of 1917 at Mount Holyoke; Grace Margaret, who
expects to graduate from Oberlin College in 1919; David
(died November 12, 1900) ; Lurana (died November 12,
1900); Henry Fairbank; Margaret Alden, and Chester
McCord.

William Lowry Dickson, B.A. 1878

Born March 7, 1856, in Cincinnati, Ohio
Died May 2, 1915, in Cincinnati, Ohio

William Lowry Dickson was born on March 7, 1856, in
Cincinnati, Ohio, where he received his preparatory training
at the Chickering Institute. His father was William Martin
Dickson (B.A. Miami 1846, LL.B. Harvard 1850), a law-
yer of Cincinnati, who had served as judge of the Court
of Common Pleas and, from 1869 to 1875, as a trustee of
Miami University. His mother was Annie Maria, daughter
of Dr. John Todd Parker and Jane (Logan) Parker, the

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latter being the daughter of General Benjamin Logan of
Kentucky. Dr. Parker was the son of Major Parker and
Elizabeth Rittenhouse (Porter) Parker of Pennsylvania,
his maternal grandmother being Jane, daughter of Colonel
John Allan, who took part in the Battle of the River Raisin.
The first member of the Dickson family in this country came
from Scotland in 1820.

At Yale he belonged to Linonia; won the first prize in
the Delta Kappa oration contest in Freshman year; in his
final year was the recipient of a Townsend premium for
excellence in English composition; served on the Class
Day Committee, and was on the News board during part
of Senior year.

After graduation Mr. Dickson began the study of law in
his father's office in Cincinnati, and during this period he
also taught in the Chickering Institute and in the private
school conducted by Professor Babin. Since his admission
to the bar in 1881 he had practiced in his native city, from
1 88 1 to 1889 in partnership with his father under the firm
name of Dickson & Dickson, and since that time alone.

In November, 1908, he was elected judge of the Court
of Common Pleas of Hamilton County, Ohio, and served
in this capacity until his death, having been reelected in
November, 1914.

Judge Dickson's death occurred suddenly at his home in
Cincinnati on May 2, 191 5, being due to acute dilation of
the heart. Interment was in Spring Grove Cemetery,
Cincinnati.

On December 21, 1887, he was married in that city to
Minnie, daughter of George W. and Elizabeth (Graves)
Goodhue. She survives him without children. His brother,
Parker Dickson, graduated from Dartmouth in 1874, hav-
ing previously spent three years at Miami University, where
he received an M.A. degree in 1893.

James McCormick Lamberton, B.A. 1878

Born May 21, 1856, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Died March 28, 1915, in Harrisburg, Pa.

James McCormick Lamberton was born in Harrisburg,
Pa., on May 21, 1856, his father being Robert Alexander

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Lamberton, a graduate of Dickinson College in 1843, wn0
practiced as a lawyer at Harrisburg until 1880, when he
became president of Lehigh University. He served in the
Civil War, and was a member of the Pennsylvania Consti-
tutional Convention of 1873. In 1880 the University of
Pennsylvania conferred the honorary degree of LL.D. upon
him. The first member of the Lamberton family in this
country was John Lamberton, who settled in the Cumber-
land Valley before the Revolution. James Lamberton,
whose mother was Annie, daughter of William and Hen-
rietta Ruhamah (Snider) Buehler, and sister of Rear
Admiral William G. Buehler, received his early education
at private schools and at the Harrisburg Academy, being
prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.
At Yale he received Dissertation appointments, was a mem-
ber of Linonia, and served as president of the Berkeley
Association in Senior year.

The three years following graduation he spent in teach-
ing at St. Paul's, but, having devoted his spare time to the
study of law, he discontinued that connection in 1881 to
begin the practice of law in Harrisburg, where he had
been admitted to the bar in August, 1880. For six years
he practiced in partnership with his brother, the late Wil-
liam B. Lamberton (B.A. 1876), but in September, 1887,
he returned to St. Paul's School, where he remained, chiefly
engaged in teaching history, until June, 1899, when he
reopened an office in Harrisburg, continuing in practice as
long as his health permitted.

He was a director of the Dauphin County (Pa.) Bar
Association, a charter member of the Pennsylvania Bar
Association, and a member of the American Bar Associa-
tion. In 1892 he was nominated for the New Hampshire
Legislature from the seventh ward of the city of Concord,
but although he ran ahead of his ticket, was not elected.

He had always taken an active part in Yale affairs, and
for the past seventeen years had been Secretary of the
Class of 1878. For a long time he served as president of
the Yale Association of Class Secretaries. In 1898 he pub-
lished "An Account of St. Paul's School." He was
prominent in Masonry in Pennsylvania, and often delivered
addresses on important occasions in connection with the
order. He had written much on Masonic subjects, fre-

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quently contributing articles to the Philadelphia Keystone.
Mr. Lamberton had taken several trips abroad. In 1905
he went as a delegate to the National Conference on Immi-
gration, held in New York City. He was chairman of the
committee chosen to design a flag for Harrisburg, and was
instrumental in securing the passage of the joint resolu-
tions by the legislature for the display of the state flag
on the Capitol, and of the resolution for the display of
both the national and state flags in the Senate and the
House of Representatives of Pennsylvania. He had been
active in the work of the National Red Cross, and was a
member of the National Municipal League, the American
Civic Association, the Civil Service Reform Association
of Pennsylvania, and had served as secretary of the board of
managers of the Harrisburg Hospital and as a director
of the Harrisburg Benevolent Society. He also belonged
to the Board of Trade and the Municipal League, and was
a director of the Harrisburg Bridge Company.

For a long time he was a vestryman and treasurer of St.
Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church of Harrisburg, and
he had served as a delegate to many Diocesan conventions,
as well as to the last general convention of the Church.
In 1902 he was made president of the Church Club of his
Diocese, and upon the organization of the Diocese of
Harrisburg in 1904, he became a member of several
committees.

He was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, the
Sons of the Revolution, the Military Order of Foreign
Wars, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Scotch-
Irish Society of America, the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish
Society, the Pennsylvania German Society, and the Penn-
sylvania Society of New York, and also belonged to the
American Historical Association, the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, and the Historical Society of Dauphin
County, having held the offices of treasurer and correspond-
ing secretary of the latter organization.

Mr. Lamberton's death occurred, after a prolonged ill-
ness, on March 28, 191 5, at his home in Harrisburg, burial
being in that city.

He was unmarried, and is survived by his mother and a
sister. He was a cousin of George Wolf Buehler (B.A.
1856) and of Vance Criswell McCormick (Ph.B. 1893),
and had a number of other relatives who attended Yale.

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William Henry Law, B.A. 1878

Born July 25, 1856, in Norwich, Conn.
Died January 4, 1915, in New York City

William Henry Law was born July 25, 1856, in Norwich,
Conn., the son of William Henry Law (B.A. 1822) and
Harriet (Mills nee Beale) Law, who removed to New
Haven, where his father engaged in the practice of law,
in 1868. He was descended from forbears distinguished in
the colonial history of Connecticut, an ancestor being Jona-
than Law (B.A. Harvard 1695), chief justice of the Colo-
nial Supreme Court and governor of the colony, whose son,
Richard Law, a graduate of Yale in 1751, was a member of
the Continental Congress, a chief justice of the Supreme
Court of Connecticut, and the first United States judge of
the district. His grandfather, Lyman Law (B.A. 1791),
married Elizabeth, daughter of Amasa Learned (B.A.
1772).

He prepared for college at the Hopkins Grammar School
in New Haven, and entered Yale with the Class. He served
as secretary of the Freshman Boat Club, and was a member
of the Junior Supper Committee and the Junior and Senior
Promenade committees, an editor of the News in Senior
year, and a Class historian.

After graduating from the College he entered the Yale
School of Law, from which he received the degree of LL.B.
in 1880. He practiced law in New Haven until 1890, when
he removed to New York City, where he continued in the
practice of his profession until his death.

He was twice elected to the Connecticut legislature, and
twice served as alderman of his ward in New Haven; in
1884 he was auditor of Connecticut, and in 1897 assistant
tax commissioner of the city of New York.

He had traveled extensively in Europe and Mexico. He
was a member of the New England Society of New York,
and belonged to the Protestant Episcopal Church.

Mr. Law's death occurred, after a short illness from
pneumonia, at the New York Hospital on January 4, 191 5.
Interment was in Cedar Grove Cemetery in New London,
Conn.

He had never married. Two half-brothers, John Beale
Mills and William Joseph Mills, are graduates of Yale, the

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former with the degrees of B.A. in 1873 and LL.B. in 1876,
and the latter with the degree of LL.B. in 1877.

George Forris Foster, B.A. 1879

Born October 22, 1856, in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Died August 24, 19.14, in Newburgh, N. Y.

George Forris Foster, son of Wilder DeAyre and Fannie
(Lovell) Foster, was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., on
October 22, 1856. His father was at one time a member of
Congress from Michigan, and held many local offices in
Grand Rapids, among them that of mayor of the city in
1854. The son was prepared for college in the high
school in his native town, from which he entered the Uni-
versity of Michigan in 1874. Joining the Class of 1879 at
Yale in April of Freshman year, he took prizes in English
composition Sophomore year, spoke at Junior Exhibition,
received an Oration appointment in Junior year and a
Dispute Senior appointment, and belonged to Phi Beta
Kappa. He was a member of Linonia, was on the editorial
board of the Record during Junior and Senior years, and
served as a Class historian.

After graduation he went immediately into newspaper
work in the office of the New York Tribune, of which he
was made assistant editor in 1882. Resigning in the spring
of 1884, he traveled for a few months in Europe, returning
to assume the position of city editor on the staff of the New
York Times. He was also connected with the Star of that
city for a brief time.

In 1896 he gave up newspaper work, the strain of which
had finally told upon his nervous system, and became treas-
urer of the Frederick A. Stokes Company, of which his
classmate, Frederick A. Stokes, is president. Nine years
later Mr. Foster retired from business life, and since then
he had traveled somewhat in Europe.

He died, after a long illness, at his home in Newburgh,
N. Y., on August 24, 1914, and was buried in that city.

He married on June 1, 1902, Carrie Gould of New York
City, by whom he is survived. They had no children.

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Charles Loveland Merriam, B.A. 1879

Born October 9, 1855, in Meriden, Conn.
Died December 10, 1914, near Hackensack, N. J.

Charles Loveland Merriam was the son of Edwin Julius
Merriam, a lieutenant in the Seventh Connecticut Volun-
teers, who was killed at the Battle of Deep Bottom in the
attack on Richmond, August 2, 1864, and Harriet Newton
(Bradley) Merriam, and was born in Meriden, Conn., on
October 9, 1855. His ancestors were among the earliest
settlers in Massachusetts Bay. His boyhood was passed in
Durham, Conn., and after spending several years preparing
for college at the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven,
he entered Yale with the Class of 1879. He played on the
Class Football Team in Freshman year, sang in the college
choir, and was on the Class Glee Club in 1876-77. He was
one of the founders and an editor of the News, and served
on the Class Picture Committee. In Sophomore year he
won a third prize for excellence in English composition,
and he received Colloquy appointments both Junior and
Senior years. He was active in mission work while in New
Haven, and sang in the choirs of several of the city
churches.

After taking his degree he entered the Andover Theo-
logical Seminary, graduating there three years later, and
being ordained to the Congregational ministry in September,
1882. While at Andover he gave lessons in drawing, and
was musical instructor at Phillips Academy.

The three years immediately following his ordination
were spent in Kingston, Mass., as pastor of the Mayflower
Congregational Church, and while living in that place he
served as secretary of the School Board and as acting
superintendent of schools. His next charge was the Auburn
Street Congregational Church of Paterson, N. J., where
he was located from 1885 to 1891. He later held various
pastorates in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, among
them being the Central Congregational Church at Deny,
N. H., and the North Congregational Church in Newton,
Mass. In 19 13 he resigned from the latter church, and
returned to Paterson to enter upon his second pastorate at
the Auburn Street Church.

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During this second period he had organized a company
of Boy Scouts, while earlier a branch of the Young Men's
Christian Association had been founded in Paterson through
his efforts. He had served as a trustee of Pinkerton Acad-
emy at Derry, had been secretary of the Northern Con-
ference of Congregational Churches of New Jersey and
president of the Passaic County (N. J.) Christian Endeavor
Union. He had published a number of articles, addresses,
and sermons, and had been connected with the Congre-
gationalist as associate editor of homiletical work. He had
often furnished caricatures for the daily press, and delivered
numerous lectures, illustrated by rapidly executed crayon
sketches, before Chautauquas, colleges, schools, clubs, and
lyceums.

Mr. Merriam was instantly killed in an automobile acci-
dent near Hackensack, N. J., on December 10, 19 14. His
body was taken to Kingston, Mass., for burial.

His first marriage took place on June 26, 1883, to Alice
Phelps Davis of Andover, Mass. She died on February 3,
1884, and he was married to Lydia Spencer McLauthlin of
Kingston, Mass., on May 2, 1886. Her death occurred on
March 13, 1910. His third wife was Grace Isabel, daugh-
ter of David A. and Mary (Wilson) Greeley, whom he mar-
ried at Pelham, N. H., on August 1, 1912. She received
quite serious injuries in the accident in which her husband
was killed. By his second marriage Mr. Merriam had two
children: a daughter, Ruth Bradford (now Mrs. Eliot S.
Cogswell of Hartford, Conn.), and a son, Paul Bradley,
who died shortly after birth.

Jay Webber Seaver, B.A. 1880

Born March 9, 1855, in Craftsbury, Vt.
Died May 5, 1915, in Berkeley, Calif.

Jay Webber Seaver was born on March 9, 1855, in Crafts-
bury, Vt., the son of William Seaver, a descendant of Rob-
ert Seaver, who settled in Roxbury, Mass., in 1640. His
mother was Betsy, daughter of John Urie, who, coming
from Paisley, Scotland, in 1833, operated in Medway, Mass.,
the first power loom used in this country for weaving car-
pets. He passed his boyhood on his father's farm, and

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after receiving his early education in the schools in Crafts-
bury, entered Williston Seminary at Easthampton, Mass.
In college he participated in rowing, won the first Gamma
Nu declamation prize in Freshman year, was a member of
Linonia, and served on the Class Picture Committee.

After spending the first three years following his gradua-
tion from the College in teaching, — at first as principal of
the School of the Lackawanna in Scranton, Pa., and, from
1881 to 1883, as instructor in elocution and gymnastics at
Williston, — he began the study of medicine at Yale, where
he received his medical degree in 1885. While pursuing
these studies he had served as an instructor in the Yale
gymnasium, and in 1886 he took up his work as instructor
in gymnastics and lecturer in practical hygiene at the Uni-
versity, an appointment which he held until 1893, when he
became associate director of the gymnasium.

Resigning from the latter office in 1904, he had since
devoted much of his time to the affairs of the Chautauqua
(N. Y.) School of Physical Education, with which he had
been connected for many years, at first as lecturer on anat-
omy and physiology, and later as president. He served
from 1892 until 1912 as instructor in physiology at the
New Haven Normal School of Gymnastics. In the fall of
1903 he aided in organizing the American Institute of
Physical Culture, a correspondence school of health-exer-
cise, with offices in Boston, Mass., and became its president
and medical director.

His keen interest in physical education and physical
development led him to write numerous articles and to
deliver many addresses on those and allied subjects. He
at one time served as associate editor of two medical jour-
nals. One book of which he was the author, and which
passed through several editions, was entitled "Anthro-
pometry and Physical Examination. " Systems of measure-
ments which he instituted at Yale have been adopted all
over the country, and for his work on anthropometry he
received the degree of M.A. at Yale in 1893. In 1898 he
went abroad, spending most of his time in Sweden in the
study of medical gymnastics. Dr. Seaver was elected presi-
dent of the American Association of Physical Educators in
1895, and five years later was chosen to fill a similar
office in the Society of College Gymnasium Directors. He

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had also acted as president of the New Haven Medical
Society. He was a Congregationalist, and served one year
in Company D, Ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania State Guard.

He spent the winter of 191 5 in Florida, engaged some-
what in lecturing, and in April went to California ; he died
in Berkeley, that state, very suddenly, on May 5, his death
being due to heart trouble. The body was taken to
Chautauqua, N. Y., for burial.

Dr. Seaver was married in New Haven on July 1, 1886,
to Leona Nancy (Sheldon) Sullivan, daughter of John
Warner and Elizabeth (McCollister) Sheldon of Hartford,
Conn., and widow of Leonard Sullivan. Mrs. Seaver sur-
vives her husband, and he leaves also a daughter, Ruth
Buchanan (B.A. Mount Holyoke 191 1), now Mrs. Nels J.
Lennes of Missoula, Mont., and an adopted son, Norman.

Paul Walton, B.A. 1880

Born August 24, 1859, in Williamsburg, N. Y.
Died August 11, 1914, in New York City

Paul Walton, son of Edward Attwood Walton, was born
in Williamsburg, N. Y., August 24, 1859. His mother was
Caroline Taylor, daughter of Thomas G. and Eliza (Flynn)
Benton. His paternal grandfather was John T. Walton,
who came from England when a young man and married
Margaret Whitney of Norfolk, Conn. His boyhood was
passed in his native town and in Ridgewood, N. J., and he
was fitted for Yale in Mechanicville, N. Y. In college
he served on the Class Supper Committee.

After graduation he entered the Columbia Law School,
from which he took the degree of LL.B. in 1882, being
admitted to the New York Bar in November of that year.
He at once removed to Sioux Falls, S. Dak., where he was
admitted to the bar and opened an office, but after one year
there, returned to New York City, where he had since
practiced. He became secretary of and attorney for the
American Bicycle Company in 1899, and when this was
merged with the Pope Manufacturing Company, he con-
tinued to perform the same duties in the larger concern,
taking also the position of assistant treasurer. Some years
ago he assumed charge of the legal department of A. G.

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Spalding & Brothers, with whom he continued until his
death. In the fall of 1883 he had a severe illness, but
although he had never fully recovered from its effects, it
had always been possible for him to attend to his business
interests. For a while after his return to the East, Mr.
Walton made his home in Ridgewood, but for a number of
years he had lived at the Yale Club in New York City, and
had been prominently identified with the affairs of that
organization.

He died, from Bright's disease, in New York City, on
August 11, 1914, burial being in Ridgewood, N. J. He
was unmarried, and is survived by his mother.

James Richard Ely, B.A. 1882

Born August 12, 1859, in Chicago, 111.
Died May 23, 191 5, in New York City-
James Richard Ely, son of David Jay Ely, whose parents
were Richard and Mary (Peck) Ely, and whose earliest
ancestors in the United States came from England and
settled in Lyme, Conn., in 1628, was born on August 12,
1859, in Chicago, 111., where his father was at the time
engaged as a wholesale importer of coffee. His mother was
Caroline, daughter of James and Emily (Villette) Duncan.
His preparatory training was received at several schools
in New York City, to which place his family had moved
in 1868, and at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.,
and, after a short trip to Europe in 1875, completed at
Sigler's School in Newburgh, N. Y., from which he entered
Yale in 1877 as a member of the Class of 1881. He joined
the Class with which he was graduated as a Junior. In
college he took part in rowing.

The two years following graduation he spent in the study
of law at Columbia and in the offices of Dunning, Edsall,
Hart & Fowler in New York City. In December, 1885,
after serving a clerkship of about fifteen months in the office
of Roger Foster (B.A. 1878), he was admitted to the New
York Bar, and since that time he had been engaged in the
practice of his profession in New York, at first as a mem-
ber of the firm of Ely & Walker, in which his partner was
Eugene W. Walker (B.A. 1880, LL.B. 1882). In 1895

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he became associated with his classmate, Wilber McBride,
under the name of Ely & McBride, but since 1898 he had
practiced alone.

Mr. Ely was active in local, state, and national politics,
and served as a delegate to the Syracuse convention of the
National Democratic party in 1905 and to the national con-
vention held at Indianapolis in 1905. In the fall of 1898
he was made a member of the Committee of One Hundred
in the movement in behalf of an independent judiciary.
For about three years, beginning in April, 1895, he served as
assistant United States district attorney for the southern
district of New York, and from January, 1902, until 1910,
he held an appointment as assistant district attorney under
William Travers Jerome.

He was a member of the New York City Bar Associa-
tion and the American Museum of Natural History and a
communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the
Incarnation.

His death occurred, following a brief illness from pneu-
monia, at his home in New York City on May 23, 191 5.
Interment was in St. James, Long Island.

Mr. Ely was married on June 8, 1886, in New Albany,
Ind., to Emma, daughter of John H. and Jane (Miller)
Stotsenburg of that place. She survives him with their
two children : David Jay, who received the degree of B.A.
at Yale in 1913, and Alice Anne, the wife of Mr. Edward
Blagden of New York City.

Charles Jonas Long, B.A. 1882

Born May 3, 1859, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Died May 10. 1915, in Wilkes Barre, Pa.

Charles Jonas Long was born in Philadelphia, Pa., on
May 3, 1859, the son of Jonas Long, whose parents were
Jonas and Pauline (Mayer) Long. His family removed to
Wilkes Barre, Pa., shortly afterwards, and he received his
early education in that city, later attending Wyoming Sem-
inary at Kingston, Pa., and the Philadelphia Central High
School.

Mr. Long, who had come to this country from Bretzfeld,
Germany, about 1846, died shortly after his son's gradua-

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tion from Yale, and the latter, with his four brothers, then
undertook the management of his mercantile business, and
for many years he had been actively connected with the
chain of department stores operated under the name of
Jonas Long's Sons.

He had also been a director of the Luzerne County Trust
Company and a trustee of the Wilkes Barre Board of Trade,
representing the latter organization at the Commonwealth
Congress and Export Exposition at Philadelphia. At one
time he served as treasurer of the Republican League of
Northeastern Pennsylvania, but, although he several times
represented his state at national gatherings, he had always
declined public office. Mr. Long was appointed three times
as a delegate to the National Prison Congress, and, at the
one held in Kansas City, delivered an address on "Prison
Reform/' He belonged to the Wyoming Historical Society
and to the Congregation B'nai B'rith of Wilkes Barre.
He was not married.

His death occurred, after an illness of a year, due to
a complication of diseases, in Wilkes Barre on May 10,
191 5. Interment was in the Jewish Cemetery in Hanover,
Pa.

John Rossiter, B.A. 1882

Born January 20, 1850, in North Guilford, Conn.
Died July 16, 1914, in New Fairfield, Conn.

John Rossiter, son of John Ruggles and Cleora Frances
(Crittenden) Rossiter, was born January 20, 1850, in North
Guilford, Conn., where his father was engaged in teaching
school and in farming. He was of English descent, his
father's people coming to this country and settling in
Dorchester, Mass., in 1630, while his maternal ancestors set-
tled in Guilford, Conn., in 1639. When twenty-one years of
age, he went to New Britain, Conn., and studied for two
years at the State Normal School. The next four years
were spent as principal of Center School in New Canaan,
Conn., and then, after another year of preparation, he
entered Yale in the fall of 1878. In college he received a
Colloquy appointment Junior year and a Dispute in Senior
year.

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Upon graduation he taught for a year at Williston Semi-
nary, Easthampton, Mass., and in 1883 took charge of the
high school at Windsor, Conn. From 1884 until 1906 he
lived in Norwich, Conn., as principal of the Broadway
Grammar School. In the fall of 1906, his health failing,
he was forced to give up his professional work, and for a
year he was engaged in outdoor work and study in Guil-
ford, and at this time he took a course in psychology and
pedagogy for the M.A. degree at Yale, which he received
in 1909.

For a long time he served as superintendent of the Sun-
day school of the Second Congregational Church in Nor-
wich, of which he was a deacon. In Mr. Rossiter's family,
for five generations, there had been a deacon in regular
succession, and he and his brother finished out one hundred
years of service in that capacity. About two years ago Mr.
Rossiter was ordained to the ministry, and for some time
he had been pastor of the New Fairfield (Conn.) Congre-
gational Church.

He died, from laryngitis, in New Fairfield on July 16,
1914. His body was taken to North Guilford for burial.

He was married in New Canaan on August 2.2, 1883, to
Eleanor Genevieve, daughter of Francis and Sarah (Seeley)
Brown. They had two children : a son, John Harold, and
a daughter, Ruth Frances. The daughter studied at Mount
Holyoke College during 1905-06, later graduated from the
Willimantic (Conn.) State Normal School, and in June,
1914, took the degree of B.S. from Teachers College, Colum-
bia University, from which she also received a diploma for
elementary supervision.

Charles Albert Wight, B.A. 1882

Born August 26, 1856, in Ashfield, Mass.
Died April 15, 1915, in Chicopee Falls, Mass.

Charles Albert Wight was born in Ashfield, Mass., on
August 26, 1856, the son of Joseph Elmer Wight, whose
paternal ancestors came from the Isle of Wight, and set-
tled at Dedham, Mass., in 1636. His mother was Sarah,
daughter of Rodolphus Rice of Conway, Mass., her ances-
tors having come to eastern Massachusetts from England

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in the seventeenth century. He received his preparatory-
training at Williston Seminary in Easthampton, Mass., and
at Smith Academy in Hatfield, Mass., to which town his
family had removed in his boyhood, and where his father,
who was engaged as a merchant, had a large farm and
beautiful country home. He entered Yale in 1876, but after
spending two years with the Class of 1880, left college and
taught two years in Conway, Mass.; in Junior year he
joined the Class with which he was graduated. He cap-
tained his Freshman Class Crew, was a member of the Uni-
versity Crew in Sophomore year and of his Class Crew in
Junior year. He served on the editorial board of both the
Lit and Pot-Pourri, won the Lit medal in 1877 and a Sopho-
more composition prize, was elected to Chi Delta Theta, and
received a Colloquy appointment.

After spending the two years immediately following his
graduation in the pursuit of theological studies at Yale,
Mr. Wight was ordained to the ministry of the Congrega-
tional Church on May 19, 1885, in Detroit, Mich., his first
pastorate being the Harper Avenue Church in that city.
Later he became pastor of the First Congregational Church
of Anthony, Kans., from which place he removed in Jan-
uary, 1890, to accept a call to the Olive Branch Church in
St. Louis, Mo. In 1893 he was called to Platteville, Wis.,
where he served a pastorate of nearly eight years. From
the early autumn of 1900 until the latter part of 1907 he
had charge of the Old South Congregational Church of
Hallowell, Maine, and for the past seven years he had been
located in Chicopee Falls, Mass., as pastor of the Second
Congregational Church, the membership of which had been
greatly increased during his service.

While in Wisconsin Mr. Wight had held office as vice
president of the Home Missionary Society of the state, and
had served as a member of its executive committee, while
during his pastorate in Hallowell he was a member of the
School Board for a year, and acted as superintendent of
schools for two years. He had also been a trustee of the
Maine Missionary Society and of the Hubbard Free Library
of Hallowell and president of the Hallowell Improvement
Society.

He was the author of "Doorways of Hallowell," which
was issued in 1907, and of "The Hatfield Book," published

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the following year. His most important publication, appear-
ing in 191 1, was "Some Old Time Meeting Houses of the
Connecticut Valley." A number of his sermons and
addresses had also been published; his newspaper articles
of recent years had included a number on tramping in the
White Mountains, several appearing in the Springfield
Republican, for which he frequently wrote. Taking an
active part in social service work, he was very often called
upon to speak before bodies of citizens on different topics.
During the summer of 1891 he traveled in England and
France. By vote of the Yale Corporation, Mr. Wight was
granted the degree of B.D. in 191 1, with enrollment in
the Class of 1885.

Some months ago he suffered a general breakdown, result-
ing from a too steady application to his pastoral duties, and
although he resumed his work shortly, he was not in a
condition to withstand the attack of pneumonia which
caused his death, after a ten days' illness, at his home in
Chicopee Falls on April 15, 191 5. The burial was in the
Hatfield (Mass.) Cemetery.

His marriage took place in Detroit, Mich., on June 1,
1886, to Charlotte Matilda, daughter of Joseph Henry and
Charlotte (Bolter) Burgis, who survives him. Three chil-
dren were born to them: Winifred Burgis, who died in
her fourth year; Eliot Leland, a member of the Class of
1918, and Charles Albert, Jr., who is preparing for Yale
at the Chicopee High School.

John Lanson Adams, B.A. 1883

Born August 9, i860, in Westport, Conn.
Died September 25, 1914, in New York City-
John Lanson Adams was born on August 9, i860, in
Westport, Conn., being the son of George Sherwood Adams,
who was engaged in the lumber business in that town and
as president of the Westport Savings Bank, and Polly More-
house (Coley) Adams. He was prepared for college at
Selleck's School in Norwalk, Conn. Before joining the
Class of 1883 in Sophomore year, he spent two years with
the Class of 1882.

After graduating from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons in 1886, he spent the next few years in New

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York hospitals and abroad in London, Paris, Berlin,
Heidelberg, and Vienna.

Since his return to America he had practiced in New
York City, where he founded St. Bartholomew's Clinic
for Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat, and an eye
and ear department in connection with the Bloomingdale
Clinic. He had acted as attending surgeon to the former,
and executive and attending physician to the latter, besides
being attending surgeon to the New York Eye and Ear
Infirmary, the West Side German Dispensary, and the New
York Nose, Throat, and Lung Hospital, consulting surgeon
to the New York Hospital, the House of Relief, the New
York Lying-in Asylum, and the Manhattan State Hospital,
and professor of ophthalmology and otology in the New
York School of Clinical Medicine. He had published
various medical articles, and was a member of a number of
learned societies in connection with his profession.

Early in the summer of 1914 Dr. Adams went abroad with
his family, intending to travel around the world, but the
war interrupted their trip at London, and they had come
back to this country a few days before his death, which
occurred on September 25, 1914, when he fell from a top-
floor window of his home in New York City. For some
time he had suffered from vertigo, and it is supposed that
during an attack, while trying to get air, he lost his balance
and plunged through the window. Burial was in Woodlawn
Cemetery, New York.

Dr. Adams was married on June 4, 1895, to Elizabeth
Ellerslie, daughter of Francis B. and Margaret C. (Beehler)
Wallace of New York City. Mrs. Adams survives him with
their son, Frank Lanson. Two of Dr. Adams' brothers, —
Charles F. and Henry F., — graduated from Yale, in the
Classes of 1886 and 1887 S., respectively, both taking the
degree of M.D. from Columbia in 1890.

Austin Lord Bowman, B.A. 1883

Born November 14, 1861, in Manchester, N. H.
Died June 3, 1915, in New York City-
Austin Lord Bowman, son of Rev. George Augustus
Bowman, a graduate of Bowdoin in 1843 anQ^ °f me Bangor

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Theological Seminary in 1847, was Dorn m Manchester,
N. H., on November 14, 1861, and was fitted for college at
the Hartford (Conn.) High School, his father at that time
holding a pastorate in South Windsor, Conn. At Yale he
received Oration appointments, and was elected to Phi Beta
Kappa.

During the first few months after graduation he worked
for the Hartford & Harlem Railroad Survey, but in Decem-
ber, 1883, he returned to New Haven to take a short course
in the Sheffield Scientific School.

Mr. Bowman was engaged in railroad construction work
in various parts of the country from 1885 until 1890, when
he became engineer and superintendent of construction for
the American Bridge & Iron Company of Roanoke, Va.
In 1896 he built for the United States Government the snag
boat Roanoke at Petersburg, Va., and removed two large
schooners sunk in eighty feet of water in Hampton Roads.
In that year he received from the Montreal Bridge . Com-
pany the second prize in a world-wide competition for a
design for a bridge to be built over the St. Lawrence River
at Montreal. From 1897 to 1907 he practiced independently
in New York City as a consulting engineer, specializing in
bridge and heavy construction work; most of the bridges
of the Central Railroad of New Jersey were reconstructed
under his immediate supervision between 1901 and 1907.
He became consulting engineer in the department of bridges
of New York City in the latter year, and in July, 1914, was
appointed chief engineer in the department, in which
capacity he served until his death. His report on the traffic-
carrying capacity of the Queensboro Bridge furnished the
necessary data from which the department's plan for the
arrangement of the structure to accommodate the operation
of the dual system was prepared. He rendered valuable
service in connection with the work of strengthening the
Williamsburg Bridge and in the construction of the Man-
hattan Bridge, as well as on the numerous bridges of various
types under the jurisdiction of his department.

He had served as a director of the American Society of
Civil Engineers and as chairman of one of its most impor-
tant committees ; he belonged also to several other technical
organizations, and to the Sons of the American Revolution,
the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Massachusetts Society

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of Mayflower Descendants, of which he was a charter
member.

Mr. Bowman's death occurred at his home in New York
City on June 3, 1915.

His first wife, who was Ida VanHorne of Jersey City,
N. J., and to whom he was married on January 19, 1893,
died on May 28, 1905. On December 28, 1907, he married
Eleanor Heagen of New York City, who survives him
with a daughter. A son by his second marriage, Austin
Lord, Jr., died on April 26, 1910. He leaves also a brother,
George Ernest Bowman (B.A. 1883).

George Stanley Lynde, B.A. 1883

Born December 2, 1861, in Bangor, Maine
Died November 5, 1914, in New York City-
George Stanley Lynde was born on December 2, 1861,
in Bangor, Maine, the son of John Horr Lynde, owner and
editor of the Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, and Mary
(Josselyn) Lynde, and received his preparatory training
at Phillips Academy at Exeter, N. H. In Senior year at
Yale he received a Colloquy appointment.

Four years after graduating from Yale he received the
degree of M.D. from the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons in New York City, in which place he had since been
engaged in the practice of his profession.

During 1886-88 he served on the house staff of St.
Francis* Hospital, and he was later resident physician at the
New York Foundling Hospital. He was for more than
twenty years a member of the New York Board of Health,
serving as chief diagnostician of the board from 1907 to
19 1 2. For some time he had been secretary and treasurer
of the Lyncroft Realty Company. He was a member of
the Medical Society of the State of New York, the New
York Academy of Medicine, and the New York Patho-
logical Society.

Dr. Lynde died suddenly at the New York Hospital,
after an operation for exophthalmic goitre, on November
5, 1914. The burial was in Bangor, Maine. He left the
greater part of his estate to Yale, but, among others,
bequests were also made to the public library of Bangor, to

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Bowdoin College (in memory of his brother, Frank Josselyn
Lynde, a graduate of that institution in 1877), and to
Phillips-Exeter. He was unmarried.

William Warren Weeks, B.A. 1883

Born July 5, 1862, in Havre, France
Died June 8, 1915, in Seattle, Wash.

William Warren Weeks was born July 5, 1862, in Havre,
France, and received his preparatory training at the Golden
Hill Institute in Bridgeport, Conn.

He went West in 1883, and for about a year was engaged
in the real estate business in Port Moody, Wash. He then
removed to Oakland, Calif., there becoming manager of
the Merriman Manufacturing Company, and was afterwards
for several years located in Ruby, Wash., where he con-
ducted a general merchandise business. He had made his
home in Seattle, Wash., for a long time, engaged as an
accountant and financial agent, and as president of the
Penn Mining Company.

He had taken an active part in politics, having served as
chairman of the Republican central committee of Okanogan
County, Wash., and as a delegate to the first state conven-
tion of Washington. He once held office as city clerk of
Ruby, Wash. He spent sixteen months in Greeley, Colo.,
some years ago, in connection with the construction of the
city waterworks.

His death occurred, as the result of a hemorrhage of the
lungs, at his home in Seattle on June 8, 191 5. He had not
married.

Edwin Albert Merritt, B.A. 1884

Born July 25, i860, in Pierrepont, N. Y.
Died December 4, 1914, in Potsdam, N. Y.

Edwin Albert Merritt was born in Pierrepont, N. Y., on
July 25, i860, the son of Edwin Atkins and Eliza (Rich)
Merritt. His father, born in Sudbury, Vt., in 1828, became

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a resident of St. Lawrence County, N. Y., in 1841 ; was
twice elected a member of the New York Assembly ; served
as a member of the State Constitutional Convention of
1867; received appointment in 1877 as surveyor of the
port of New York and in 1878 as collector; was consul
general in London from 1881 to 1886. He served in the
Civil War as quartermaster of the Sixtieth New York
Regiment, and received the honorary degree of LL.D. from
St. Lawrence University in 1887. The son prepared at the
State Normal School in Potsdam, N. Y., and in college took
a prominent part in boating, being a member of his Class
Crew, substitute on the University Crew for two years,
president of the Class Boat Club for three years and of
the University Boat Club one year. He served on the Class
Cup Committee.

After graduation he spent a year abroad, during a part of
which he was deputy consul general at London. Upon his
return he studied law in Potsdam, and since his admission
to the bar had practiced there, although his chief interest
was given to business enterprises and public service. He
had large interests in quarrying, and was officer and director
of several business companies, including the Northern
Power Company, the Potsdam Electric Light & Power
Company, and the Hannana Falls Water Power Company.

His interest in political and public life began early and
continued with constantly increasing activity and useful-
ness. He was always a Republican; the principal public
offices which he held were: supervisor of the town of
Potsdam from 1896 to 1903 ; representative in the New
York Assembly from 1902 to 191 2 inclusive, and member
of Congress from the thirty-first New York district from
1912 and by reelection in 1914. While in the New York
Assembly he was for several years the leader of the Repub-
lican side of the House; in 1908 he was candidate for
Speaker and was made Speaker of the 1912 session, and
during the latter years of his service was on many impor-
tant committees, and took part in framing much important
legislation. In 1905 he was a member of the legislative
committee for the investigation of the price of gas in New
York City; he was later chairman of the legislative com-
mittee which made a lengthy investigation of "graft," and
in 191 1 made its report concerning corrupt practices in

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elections, and recommended important changes in the insur-
ance laws. Governor Hughes selected him to draw the
Public Service Commissions law, and for months Mr. Mer-
ritt gave his time to the work of framing that measure
in substantially the form in which it was finally passed.
Despite his loyalty to the conservatism of the Republican
"Old Guard" and the consequent opposition of men more
independent in politics and of reformers, he was recog-
nized as probably the ablest single member of the lower
house of the New York legislature. Mr. Merritt took part
in many party conventions and was an active member of
the State Republican Committee. He belonged to the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion.

Mr. Merritt's death occurred, after an illness of several
months, due to Bright's disease, on December 4, 1914, at
his home in Potsdam. Interment was in his native town.
A special service in his memory was held in the Assembly
Chamber in the Capitol at Albany on the evening of Jan-
uary 20, 191 5, and one in the House of Representatives on
February 6.

He married in Potsdam, N. Y., on January 24, 1888,
Edith Sophia, daughter of Edward Hall and Mary Frances
(Putnam) Wilcox of Potsdam, who survives him with
one child, a daughter, Esther Mary.

Dean Augustus Walker, B.A. 1884

Born February 3, i860, in Diarbekir, Turkey-
Died September 6, 1914, in Auburndale, Mass.

Dean Augustus Walker was born in Diarbekir, Turkey,
on February 3, i860, the son of Augustus Walker, a gradu-
ate of Yale in the Class of 1849 and of Andover Theological
Seminary in 1852, who served as a missionary in Diarbekir,
under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, from 1853 until his death in the cholera scourge
of 1866. His mother, who was Eliza Mercy, daughter of
Rev. Sewall Harding and Eliza (Wheeler) Harding, and a
sister of John Wheeler Harding (B.A. 1845), m ner ^ater
years founded the Walker Home for Missionaries' Children

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in Auburndale, Mass. His great-great-grandfather, Dr.
Abijah Richardson, was surgeon on General Washington's
staff and one of the original members of the Society of the
Cincinnati, while two of his great-grandfathers held com-
missions in the Revolutionary War. Dean Walker, who was
fitted for college in the public schools of Newton, Mass.,
took two third prizes in mathematics at Yale, was given
a first Berkeley premium for excellence in Latin composi-
tion, received Oration appointments and an election to Phi
Beta Kappa, served on the Class Ivy Committee, and was
a member of the Lacrosse Team in 1882.

Following graduation he taught for a time in the Hop-
kins Grammar School and in Colorado College, after which
he entered the Theological Department at Yale, graduating
in 1889. He took an M.A. degree the following year.

For the next three years he taught, part of the time as
principal, in the preparatory department of the Syrian Prot-
estant College at Beirut, devoting his spare time to the
study of Arabic. From 1893 until 1895 he was Fellow
and extension lecturer at the University of Chicago, from
which he received his Ph.D. in Semitics in 1895. The
next five years were spent in Aurora, N. Y., where he
occupied the chair of Biblical literature and sociology at
Wells College.

The balance of his career was devoted to pastoral work,
his first charge being the combined parishes of South West
Harbor and Bass Harbor, Maine, where he served for three
years. His second and last charge was the West Parish
Church (Congregational) of Andover, Mass., where he
went in 1908. For some time his health had been failing,
and about a year before his death he was compelled to take
a leave of absence from his pastorate, to which, however, he
had hoped to be able to return later. During his absence
from Andover he was living at his early home in Auburn-
dale, where on September 6, 19 14, he died of arterio
sclerosis. His body was taken to Newton for burial.

He was married on June 16, 1896, in Auburndale to Mary
Ladd, daughter of Rev. William Spooner Smith (B.A.
Amherst 1848) and Elinor Mary (Ladd) Smith. Mrs.
Walker survives him with their adopted son, Wendell
Augustus Walker.

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James Wright Lee, B.A. 1886

Born January 19, 1865, in Cleveland, Ohio
Died August 5, 1914, in Cleveland, Ohio

James Wright Lee, son of James Wright Lee, an insur-
ance agent, and Rhoda (Carlton) Lee, was born in Cleve-
land, Ohio, on January 19, 1865. His preparation for
college was received at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.,
and he received Colloquy appointments at Yale.

After graduation he spent about a year in Colorado, later
taking a trip to California. Upon his return to Cleveland
he entered the insurance business, and for some time he had
been a member of the firm of James W. Lee & Company.
During the year 1888-89 ne studied at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons in New York City.

Mr. Lee died on August 5, 1914, after an illness of many
months, at his home in Cleveland. He was buried in Lake
View Cemetery in that city.

He was married in Cleveland on October 28, 1891, to
Winifred Caroline, daughter of William Edward and Caro-
line (Newton) Clarke, who survives him. They had no
children.

Porter Sherman, B.A. 1886

Born February 23, 1832, in North Java, N. Y.
Died February 10, 1915, in Lausanne, Switzerland

Porter Sherman was born in North Java, N. Y., on Feb-
ruary 28, 1832, the son of Sanford and Patience (Porter)
Sherman. In his boyhood his parents removed to Michigan,
and he received his early education in Girard, that state,
and later was a pupil of Horace Mann at Antioch College,
Yellow Springs, Ohio. He attended Hillsdale College dur-
ing 1861-62, then coming to Yale and spending a short time
with the Class of 1864. He was also for a while with the
Class of 1865, but left during Senior year; returning to
New Haven twenty-one years later, he completed his
course with the Class of 1886.

He had hoped to become a lawyer, and had studied in
offices and by himself, and during 1865-66 took a course at
the University of Michigan. He was admitted to the bar

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in Ann Arbor, but shortly afterwards removed to Kansas
City, Kans., where he commenced to practice. He soon
turned his attention to teaching, however, and from 1874
to 1884 served as superintendent of schools in that city.

For a number of years he was in the real estate and
banking business in Kansas City, where he served as vice
president of the Kansas City Savings Bank, and, from
March, 1887, until May, 1905, as president of the Wyan-
dotte State Bank, of which he had previously been a
director. He was a member of the Kansas state legislature
during 1886-87.

In 1888 he went abroad, and spent about two years in the
study of economics at Leipsic and Berlin. At later inter-
vals he had traveled abroad to a considerable extent, and
since 1907 had spent most of his time in Switzerland and
France. In 1898 he was appointed to a professorship in
political economy in the Kansas City University in Kansas,
and at the time of his death was professor emeritus of that
subject. He had spent much time in study, and had written
a number of newspaper and magazine articles, and was the
author of a tariff primer : "The Effect of Protection upon
the Farmer and Laborer." In 189 1 his translation of Pro-
fessor Leo Brentano's "The Relation of Labor to the Law
of Today" was published.

Professor Sherman's death occurred in Lausanne, Swit-
zerland, on February 10, 191 5, from blood poisoning fol-
lowing an operation. He was cremated, and the ashes were
interred in Mount Hope Cemetery in Kansas City.

He was married in Hillsdale, Mich., on October 6, 1859,
to Frances M., daughter of George W. and Nancy L.
(Mead) Buck. They had one daughter, Bertha (Mrs.
Alfred L. Hovey), who, with Mrs. Sherman, survives.

Harold Russell Griffith, B.A. 1888

Born April 15, 1867, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Died November 18, 1914, in New Yprk City-
Harold Russell Griffith, son of Walter Scott Griffith,
president of the Home Life Insurance Company of New
York, and Henrietta (Spring) Griffith, was born in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., on April 15, 1867. He received his early edu-

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cation at Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., and after
spending the first term of Freshman year at Amherst Col-
lege, joined the Class of 1888 at Yale. He received a
Townsend premium and a Colloquy appointment in Senior
year, and was an editor of the Lit and a member of Chi
Delta Theta.

After graduation he first engaged in literary work in
New York City, but later studied law. His exceptional
ability gave promise of marked success in his profession,
when a serious illness compelled him to withdraw from
active practice and to pass some years in retirement and
travel. The keenness of his disappointment at this check
in his career militated against his recovery, which was
never complete.

In 1903 he went to the Pacific Coast, and became an asso-
ciate editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Later still he
was on the editorial staff of Webster's "International Dic-
tionary," and his scholarly service in that capacity won for
him the high esteem of his associates. Greatly improved
in health, Mr. Griffith resumed the practice of law, and
until about a year ago he was connected with the firm of
Joline, Larkin & Rathbone in New York City.

But his hope that his health was fully restored, and
that he could take up again his interrupted career, was
unfounded. Though the illness which resulted in his death
from heart failure on November 18, 1914, at his home in
New York City, was of only a fortnight's duration, he
had suffered long, not merely from physical causes, but
because he realized that his power of accomplishment was
impeded. He was buried in the family lot in Springfield,
Mass.

In 1891 he traveled in England and Scotland. He was
for several years a member of the New York Reform Club.

He was married in New York City on November II,
1909, to Helen Isabel Ottilie, a daughter of Otto and Isabel
(Graham) Kirchner of Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Griffith sur-
vives him. Edward M. Griffith, a non-graduate member of
the Class of 1895 S., is a brother, while other relatives who
have attended Yale include his uncles, the late George S.
Merriam (B.A. 1864), Rev. James F. Merriam (B.A.
1867), and the late Edward F. Merriam (B.A. 1870), and
several cousins.

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Frank Lincoln Thompson, B.A. 1888

Born April 3, 1865, in Glendale, Ohio
Died November 13, 1914, in Port Angeles, Wash.

Frank Lincoln Thompson, son of Nathaniel Johnson
Thompson (B.A. Miami 1858), who was for a number of
years engaged in public school work in Cincinnati, and Mary-
Ellen (Looker) Thompson, was born in Glendale, Ohio, on
April 3, 1865. His paternal grandfather was John Thomp-
son, a physician having for more than forty years a large
practice in Brown County, Ohio. James Harvey Looker, his
mother's father, established the first daily paper published
in Cincinnati, and was the proprietor of the Cincinnati
Republican for a long time. The latter was the son of
Othniel Looker, who fought in the Revolutionary War, and
who in 1 801 was elected a member of the lower branch of
the New York legislature; upon his removal to Ohio in
1804 he served in both the Senate and Assembly of the
state, afterwards being made a justice of the peace and then
judge of the court of common pleas ; he was later chosen
lieutenant governor of Ohio and finally became governor,
finishing the term of Governor Meigs.

He was fitted for college at the East Denver (Colo.)
High School, and in Junior year at Yale took the first
Winthrop prize, and received a Colloquy appointment. He
was given two-year honors in ancient languages, and at
Commencement received a Dispute appointment.

From March 1, 1890, to June 17, 1891, he taught in the
Eastburn School in Philadelphia, Pa., and then for a few
months worked on his father's ranch near Denver, Colo.
In 1892 he took up bee-keeping at Arvada in that state,
and at this time published several articles in bee journals,
and had charge of the monthly reviews of foreign journals
for the Bee-Keeper's Review. He had also written some-
what for The Dial In 1897 he removed to Montrose, Colo.,
and in 1900, to Denver, in both of which places he was
engaged in bee-keeping. He became a state authority on
bees, and the industry had afforded him the opportunity
of keeping close to nature and of keeping up his favorite
studies during the part of the year when the bees were
inactive.

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He finally gave up bee-keeping, however, and during
1904-05 was employed as a bookkeeper for the firm of
Ruuchfuss Brothers in Denver, and from 1906 to 1909 he
worked as a stenographer in Walsenburg, Colo., being con-
nected with a railway company there. Returning to Den-
ver in May, 1909, he was engaged in similar work until
late in 1912, when he removed to Port Angeles, Wash., and
there turned his attention to out-of-door employment on
the advice of his physician.

His health had been poor for some years; a disease
located near the speech center, — an obscure brain trouble, —
for years functional and latterly organic, was responsible for
his breakdown, and finally for his death, which occurred
in Port Angeles on November 13, 19 14. Interment was in
Riverside Cemetery in Denver. Mr. Thompson was unmar-
ried, and is survived by a brother and a sister.

James Eugene Farmer, B.A. 1891

Born July 5, 1867, in Cleveland, Ohio
Died May, 1915, in New York Bay

James Eugene Farmer was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on
July 5, 1867, being the eldest son of Elihu Jerome and
Lydia (Hoyt) Farmer. His father was a non-graduate
member of the Class of 1857 at Haverford College and the
author of several books; during most of his life he was
engaged in business in Cleveland. The son was prepared
for college at the Brooks Military Academy in that city.

The year following his graduation he devoted to the
study of assaying and chemistry in Cleveland, and during
1892-93 he was engaged as secretary of the Magna Charter
Mining & Tunnel Company in that city. He taught history,
Latin, and English for the next fifteen years at St. Paul's
School, Concord, N. H., which he left in 1908 to go to
New York City, there becoming connected with the Booth
School, conducted by Malcolm Booth (Ph.B. 1879).

Several years ago he gave up school work entirely, and
had since given most of his attention to writing, which had
always been more congenial to him than teaching. In 1897
he published a group of essays on French history, as a
result being made a member of the Societe de THistoire de

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la Revolution Franchise of Paris. He was also the author
of "The Grenadier/' published in 1898, which ran through
several editions; "The Grand Mademoiselle" (1899);
"Brinton Eliot" (1902), and "Versailles and the Court
under Louis XIV" (1905). He had also contributed to
quite an extent to magazines. In 1894 he took an M.A.
degree at Yale.

Mr. Farmer disappeared from his home in New York
City on May 15, 191 5, and two weeks later his body was
recovered off New Dorp, N. Y.

Ernest M. Farmer, a non-graduate member of the Class
of 1895 S., who died on January 6, 1910, was a brother.
Mr. Farmer was not married, and is survived by a sister.

Herbert Wolcott Holcomb, B.A. 1891

Born October 4, 1869, near Paxton, 111.
Died January 3, 191 5, in Hinsdale, 111.

Herbert Wolcott Holcomb, son of William Horace Hol-
comb, who had served as a vice president of the Union
Pacific Railroad, and Elizabeth (Munson) Holcomb, was
born on a farm near Paxton, 111., on October 4, 1869, and
was prepared for college at the Lake Forest (111.) School
and at the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven. He
played football while in college, substituting on the Uni-
versity Team in Senior year, and he received Dispute
appointments both Junior and Senior years.

After leaving Yale Mr. Holcomb entered the Northwest-
ern University Law School, graduating with the Class of
1893; he then was a student in the law office of Azel F.
Hatch (B.A. 1871) in Chicago for two years. In Decem-
ber, 1896, he gave up his connection with the law firm
of Ogden, Blakeley & Holcomb, of which he had been a
member for some time, to act as attorney for the Suburban
Road, an electric line in the western suburbs of Chicago.
He again associated himself with Mr. Hatch in 1901, and
upon the latter's death in 1906, became administrator of his
estate, and succeeded to some of his business. In 1909
he formed a partnership with his classmate, Archibald J.
F. McBean, which continued for about two years. Since
that time he had practiced alone in Chicago, specializing

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in real estate and probate law. He was also at one time
connected with the firm of Naugle, Holcomb & Company.

Mr. Holcomb had taken an active part in civic affairs in
Hinsdale, 111., where he made his home, serving six years
as president of the School Board, and for four as a trustee
of the village. In 1914 he was a candidate for the nomi-
nation for county judge on the Progressive ticket.

He died at his home on January 3, 191 5, after a week's
illness; his death was the result of kidney trouble of over
twenty years' duration. Burial was in Hinsdale.

His marriage took place on June 13, 1899, to Amy Jarre tt
(Ph.B. Northwestern University 1890), daughter of John
R. and Lucy (Updegraff) Jarrett of Hinsdale. Mrs. Hol-
comb's death occurred in Hinsdale on December 17, 19 12.
They had one son, John Jarrett, who survives.

Ezekiel Field Clay, Jr., B.A. 1892

Born June 16, 1871, in Paris, Ky.
Died January 29, 1915, in Paris, Ky.

Ezekiel Field Clay, Jr., was born in Paris, Ky., on June
16, 1 87 1, his father being Ezekiel Field Clay, a graduate
of Bacon College (now Transylvania University), who
served as a colonel in the Confederate Army, and whose
ancestor, Charles Clay, came from Wales in the early part
of the seventeenth century, settling on the James River in
Virginia, near Jamestown. His mother was Mary, daughter
of John T. and Elizabeth (Buckner) Woodford. After her
death on August 8, 1900, his father married Mrs. Florence
(Kelly) Lockhart of Paris. He attended Yerkes Prepara-
tory School in his native town before coming to Yale.

Upon returning to Paris after his graduation, he became
interested in the breeding of thoroughbred horses, in which
business his father had been engaged since 1875. With
his brothers, — Woodford Clay (B.A. Princeton 1893),
Brutus J. Clay (B.A. Princeton 1896, LL.B. University of
Virginia 1898), and Buckner Clay (B.A. University of Ken-
tucky 1898, LL.B. University of Virginia 1900), — he
formed the firm of Clay Brothers, which has for a number
of years been successfully engaged in the breeding and
raising of thoroughbred horses.

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Mr. Clay died very suddenly at his home near Paris on
January 29, 19 15, and was buried in the family plot in
the Paris cemetery.

He was first married on January 6, 1898, in Paris to Anna
Cary, daughter of Judge J. Quincy Ward and Mary E.
(Miller) Ward of Bourbon, Ky., who died on May 9, 1900.
By this marriage there was one child, Cary Field, who sur-
vives. His second wife, Anne Lee, daughter of Colonel
George Washington and Jane Todd (Ramsey) Washington
of Newport, Ky., to whom he was married in Newport on
September 14, 1904, survives him with a son, Ezekiel Field,
3d. Relatives who have attended Yale include Cassius M.
Clay (B.A. 1832) ; Green Clay, of the Class of 1859; Cas-
sius M. Clay, Jr., who took his degree in 1866, and Junius
B. Clay, a non-graduate member of the Class of 1892.

Lee McClung, B.A. 1892

Born March 26, 1870, in Knoxville, Tenn.
Died December 19, 1914, in London, England

[Thomas] Lee McClung was born in Knoxville, Tenn.,
on March 26, 1870, the son of Franklin Henry McClung, a
prominent merchant of the Southwest. His great-grand-
father, Charles McClung, was born in Lancaster County,
Pa., and, going to Tennessee as a surveyor, laid out the
town of Knoxville along lines similar to the plan of Phila-
delphia. He was a member of the first Constitutional Con-
vention of the state, which adopted the constitution of
Tennessee of 1796, and married Margaret, daughter of
James White, the first settler and founder of Knoxville,
who was a captain of North Carolina militia in the Revo-
lutionary War, and who later served as brigadier-general
of East Tennessee Militia Volunteers, accompanying Gen-
eral Jackson in the expedition against the Creek Indians
in the fall of 1813.

Lee McClung's mother was Eliza Ann, a daughter of
Adam Lee Mills, who as a young man fought under Gen-
eral William Henry Harrison in the battle of Tippecanoe.
He subsequently settled at St. Louis, and is said to have
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he was the first president of the Boatmen's Bank of St.
Louis, the oldest bank in Missouri.

After preparing for college at Phillips Academy in Exe-
ter, N. H., Lee McClung entered Yale with the Class of
1892. He played on the Freshman Football Team, and was
halfback on the University Team all four years, being cap-
tain in his Senior year. For the first three years he played
on the University Nine, and was elected captain for Senior
year, but resigned, as he did not wish to give so much
time to athletics. He played on his Class Baseball Team
that year. He served as chairman of the Junior Promenade
Committee.

The four months immediately following his graduation he
spent abroad with several of his classmates. Upon his
return to this country he went to California, where he stayed
during the winter, later traveling extensively throughout
the country.

In March, 1894, he began work as paymaster for the
St. Paul & Duluth Railroad, and was located at St. Paul,
Minn., for about four years. He later became connected
with the Southern Railway Company, serving in various
capacities until December, 1904, when he resigned as assist-
ant freight traffic manager at Louisville, Ky., to accept the
appointment of treasurer of Yale University. He retained
his official connection with Yale for five years, resigning in
the fall of 1909, to enter upon his work as treasurer of
the United States, having been selected for that office by
President Taft. Since his withdrawal from the Treasury
Department in November, 1912, he had spent much time
abroad.

He had been a director of the National New Haven Bank,
the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford,
Conn., the Marion (Ala.) Institute; treasurer and a direc-
tor of the American Association for Highway Improvement,
and a national councilman of the Boy Scouts of America.
In 1905 Yale conferred the honorary degree of M.A. upon
him.

Mr. McClung's death occurred, after a three months'
illness from typhoid fever, in the Medical and Surgical
Home, Torrington Square, London, England, on December
19, 1914. Funeral services, which were attended by a
number of his classmates and other Yale graduates, were

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held in New York City on January 4, 191 5. The burial was
at Knoxville.

He was unmarried. Two brothers are graduates of Yale :
Calvin Morgan (Ph.B. 1876) and Robert Gardner (B.A.
1891).

Elliott Marshall, B.A. 1892

Born October II, 1870, in Jersey City, N. J.
Died July, 1914, in Raritan Bay, N. J.

Elliott Marshall, son of Seth P. and Eliza (Bunce)
Marshall, was born in Jersey City, N. J., where his father
was engaged in the dry goods business, on October 11,
1870, being fitted for college at the Hasbrouck Institute in
that place. At Yale he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa,
and received Philosophical Oration appointments.

The year following graduation he spent in post-graduate
work at Yale, after which he went into the stone business
in S tines ville, Ind. Remaining until 1894, he then entered
the New York Law School, where he received the degree
of Bachelor of Laws in 1896. Since his admission to the
bar in that year, he had been engaged in the practice of
his profession in New York City, being associated for a
time with Harry L. Pangborn (B.A. 1891), under the firm
name of Pangborn & Marshall. He had later practiced
independently. In addition to his legal business, Mr. Mar-
shall was extensively interested in real estate in New Jersey
and in fruit farming in the West.

He was a member of the board of trustees of the First
Congregational Church of Montclair, where he had lived
for the greater part of his life, and since the destruction
of that church by fire in March, 19 13, he had taken an
active part in the efforts to raise money for a new church.
Much of his time was spent in philanthropic work, and he
had been particularly interested in building model tenements
for the poor. He was a member of the Explorers' and
Musicians' clubs of New York City, and had served as
vice president of the Montclair Art Association and of the
Whittier Settlement House in Jersey City and as a director
in several banks.

Mr. Marshall disappeared from his office in New York
City on July 23, 1914, and a week later his body was

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recovered in Raritan Bay, opposite Monmouth, N. J.
Interment was in South Manchester, Conn.

He was married in St. Louis, Mo., on June 3, 1913, to
Helen Watts, a daughter of Robert Henry and Maria
(Flanagan) Floyd- Jones of St. Louis, Mo. A son was born
to them on June 17, 191 4, but lived only a short time after
birth. His mother was a cousin of Henry C. Bunce (M.D.
1850), whose son, Charles S., graduated from the Sheffield
Scientific School in 1875. Two other cousins are Robert
M. Spencer, a non-graduate member of the Class of 1895 S.,
and Walter B. Spencer (B.A. 1904).

Francis Oswald Dorsey, B.A. 1893

Born November 12, 1869, in Indianapolis, Ind.
Died June 17, 1915, in Indianapolis, Ind.

Francis Oswald Dorsey was born on November 12, 1869,
in Indianapolis, Ind., his parents being Robert Stockton
Dorsey, who was engaged as a manufacturer in that city,
and Katharine (Layman) Dorsey. He was fitted for Yale
at the Boys' Classical School in Indianapolis, and in college
was given Colloquy appointments, and served on the Cap
and Gown Committee.

From 1893 until 1896 he studied at the College of Physi-
cians and Surgeons in New York City, receiving the degree
of M.D. in the latter year, when he was also awarded a prize
of two hundred dollars for excellence in the work of his
entire course. He then served for three months on the
house staff of the Sloane Maternity Hospital and for two
years as an interne at the Presbyterian Hospital. Return-
ing in 1899 to Indianapolis, where he had since been engaged
in the practice of his profession, he at first limited his work
largely to surgery, but after a few years entered upon
general practice.

In October, 1899, ne was appointed assistant professor
of the principles and practice of medicine in the Indiana
Medical College (the medical department of Purdue Uni-
versity), and the following year became assistant demon-
strator in pathology there. He also received at that time

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an appointment as professor of materia medica and thera-
peutics in the Indiana Dental College, a position which he
resigned in September, 1904. For a year, beginning in May,
1907, he served as associate professor of medicine in the
Indiana Medical College, and since May, 1908, he had held
a similar appointment on the staff of the Indiana University
School of Medicine.

Since January, 1900, Dr. Dorsey had served as attend-
ing physician to the Eleanor Hospital for Children, of whose
advisory board he had been a member since 1906. He was
chosen assistant attending physician and surgeon to the
Indiana City Hospital in 1904, being appointed attending
physician two years later. He had also served as consult-
ing physician and surgeon to the City Dispensary, and was
connected with the Bobbs Free Dispensary. He was a
member of the Indianapolis and Indiana State Medical socie-
ties and of the American Medical Association, and was
president of the Mount Jackson Sanitarium Association,
vice president of the Tucker & Dorsey Manufacturing Com-
pany, and a director of the Phoenix Castor Company.

His death occurred, from peritonitis, in Indianapolis on
June 17, 191 5, burial being in Crown Hill Cemetery in
that city.

Dr. Dorsey was married October 15, 1902, in Indianapolis
to Edith Maria, daughter of William H. and Marintha
(Robe) Smith. She survives him without children.

William Walton Eccles, B.A. 1893

Born February 7, 1871, in Auburn, N. Y.
Died August 16, 1914, in Owasco, N. Y.

William Walton Eccles, son of Richard Eccles, a manu-
facturer of carriage hardware, and Mary (Walton) Eccles,
was born in Auburn, N. Y., on February 7, 1871. He pre-
pared for college at Auburn, and entering with the Class
of 1893, received a Dispute appointment in Junior year
and a Colloquy Senior year.

After graduation he returned to Auburn and became con-
nected with his father's business, the Richard Eccles Com-

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pany, in the fall of 1893. In 1912 he was made secretary
and treasurer of the company and continued in that capac-
ity until his death. During the last two years of his life he
was also a trustee of the Cayuga County Savings Bank.

Mr. Eccles' death, which was due to cancer, occurred at
his summer home on Owasco Lake, N. Y., on August 16,
19 14. The burial was in Soule Cemetery, near Auburn.

He was married on October 18, 1899, to Margaret Allan,
daughter of William and Margaret (Dyer) Anderson of
Auburn, who survives him with three children: Marion
Allan, Robert Anderson, and Arthur Walton.

Donald Cameron Haldeman, B.A. 1893

Born July 29, 1871, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Died July 25, 1914, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Donald Cameron Haldeman was born in Harrisburg, Pa.,
on July 29, 1871, the son of Richard Jacobs Haldeman (B.A.
1851), who served as Congressman from Pennsylvania, and
who represented the United States abroad during 1852-55,
and Margaretta Brua (Cameron) Haldeman. He prepared
for college at Phillips-Andover.

After graduation he studied law in Harrisburg and was
admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in June, 1895. He then
opened an office for practice in Harrisburg, subsequently
becoming a director of the Harrisburg Bridge Company,
and of the First National Bank ; vice president of the Hag-
erstown Railway Company; a manager of the Harrisburg
Hospital, and a trustee of the Pennsylvania State Lunatic
Asylum. Mr. Haldeman continued in active practice until
December, 1909, when he was compelled by a complete
breakdown to retire from all business and professional
activities. He was at that time committed to the Pennsyl-
vania Hospital for the Insane in Philadelphia, where he had
remained almost continuously until his death, which
occurred there, from paresis, on July 25, 19 14.

He married on August 30, 1909, Miss Mary Kelly of
Harrisburg. A brother, Richard Cameron Haldeman,
received his B.A. at Yale in 1896.

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Warren W. Guthrie, B.A. 1894

Born July 22, 1871, in Atchison, Kans.
Died August 17, 1914, in Atchison, Kans.

Warren W. Guthrie, one of the eight children of Warren
W. Guthrie, at one time attorney general of Kansas, and
Julia (Fowler) Guthrie, was born in Atchison, Kans., on
July 22, 1 87 1. He attended the Atchison public schools and
Bethany Military Academy in Virginia before entering
Yale, where he was given Dispute appointments in Junior
and Senior years.

After graduation he studied at the University of Michi-
gan, from which institution he received the degree of LL.B.
in 1896. Since his admission to the bar in that year, he had
practiced in his native town, being associated with the firm
of W. W. & W. F. Guthrie. He had also been engaged in
farming and cattle-breeding. From the first he had taken
an active interest in all matters of concern to the community
in which he lived, and was a member of many local organi-
zations. He belonged to the Baptist Church. For two
years — from 1907 to 1909 — he served as county attorney.

Mr. Guthrie had suffered for years from a weak heart,
and was unable to rally from an attack of typhoid fever
which developed in July, 1914. His death occurred in
Atchison the following month, on the morning of August
17. Burial was in Mount Vernon Cemetery.

He had never married, and is survived by his mother —
with whom he took a trip around the world in 19 10 — and
three brothers and one sister.

Edward Hill McCray, B.A. 1894

Born August 2, 1870, in Ellington, Conn.
Died June 1, 1914, at Saranac Lake, N. Y.

Edward Hill McCray was born in Ellington, Conn., where
his father was engaged in farming, on August 2, 1870, being
one of the nine children of Samuel Hill and Catherine
Long (White) McCray. He was educated in the public
schools in Ellington, later taking a course at the Rockville

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(Conn.) High School, from which he was graduated in
1889, receiving a classical diploma in 1890. He then entered
Yale with the Class of 1894, obtaining Dispute appoint-
ments Junior year and at graduation.

On December 14, 1894, he formed a connection with
James Talcott & Company of New York City, dry goods
commission merchants, as house attorney and confidential
man, with which concern he remained until December, 1899,
when he became associated with Lesher-Whitman & Com-
pany, in the same city, one of the leading houses of the
country handling dress goods and tailors' trimmings. At
the time of his death he held a position of responsibility
with that company, being in charge of the credit department.

After a course in the New York Law School, from which
he received the degree of LL.B. in 1897, he was admitted
to the bar of New York State, but he practiced law for only
a short time. He belonged to the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church in New York City until his marriage, teaching in a
mission school connected with the church, but later became
a member of the Church of the Ascension.

On September 28, 1905, he married Anna Royce, daugh-
ter of William S. and Annie R. Carr of Passaic, N. J., who
died in New York City on April 1, 191 3. Following her
death Mr. McCray's health failed, tuberculosis finally devel-
oping, and he died, after an attack of appendicitis, at Sar-
anac Lake, N. Y., on June 1, 1914. The interment was in
the family plot in the Kensico (N. Y.) Cemetery. He is
survived by two children, Margaret and Edward Hill, Jr. ;
his mother ; two brothers, and one sister.

William Langdon Beadleston, B.A. 1895

Born July 27, 1873, in New York City-
Died March 7, 1915, in Montclair, N. J.

William Langdon Beadleston was born July 27, 1873,
in New York City, his father being William Henry Beadle-
ston, who took a B.A. degree at New York University in
1862, and who was connected with a number of corpora-
tions in New York City until his death in October, 1895.
His mother was Susan Ann, daughter of Chauncey P.
Colwell. He was prepared for Yale at Dr. Callisen's in

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New York City and under private tutors, and in college
he substituted on the Freshman Crew, received Colloquy
appointments, and served on the Class Supper Committee.

From December, 1895, to July, 1898, he was with the
Real Estate Trust Company (now the Fulton Trust Com-
pany) in New York City, and later was connected with
the Stock Exchange firms of Cooper, Cramp & Beadleston
and Beadleston, Hall & Company, as liquidating partner.
He became engaged as a general commission broker, deal-
ing in real estate, insurance, and investment securities in
August, 1903, and continued in that business until his
death, which occurred in the Mountainside Hospital, Mont-
clair, N. J., on March 7, 1915.

For nearly a year, commencing in December, 1906, he
served as secretary of an export trade journal publishing
concern. His home had been in Upper Montclair, N. J.,
for the past nine years. From 1896 to 1901 he was a
member of Squadron A, and he had taken several trips
abroad.

He was married in Yonkers, N. Y., on July 12, 1899, to
Emma Frances, daughter of John J. and Mary E. Hum-
phreys, who survives him. Two of his brothers, — Henry
Colwell and Chauncey Perry, — are graduates of Yale
College, in 1893 and 1908, respectively.

Matthew Sterling Borden, B.A. 1895

Born March 4, 1873, in New York City-
Died September 9, 1914, in Palermo, N. J.

Matthew Sterling Borden was born in New York City
on March 4, 1873, one of the seven children of Matthew
Chaloner Durfee Borden (B.A. 1864) and Harriet Minerva
(Durfee) Borden. He prepared for college at St. Paul's
School, Concord, N. H., and at the Cutler School in New
York City. At the end of his Sophomore year he left col-
lege, going abroad and living in Rome for two years with
Professor Tracy Peck (B.A. 1861), upon whose examina-
tion he was given his degree.

In 1898 he graduated with the degree of M.D. from the
Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City, and
since that time he had been engaged in the practice of his

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profession. He had also at one time an interest in the
American Printing Company, of which his father, in addi-
tion to his connection with numerous other concerns, had
been president. He had served on the medical staff of the
Twenty-second Regiment, New York National Guard,
ranking as captain.

Dr. Borden was instantly killed on September 9, 19 14,
at the Palermo (N. J.) station of the Reading Railroad, in
a collision between his automobile and a moving locomotive.
Burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York.

He was married on September 7, 1897, in Worcester,
Mass., to Mildred Nelson, daughter of Julius and Theresa
(Schwab) Negbaur of New Haven, Conn., who survives
him. They had four children: Clifton Sterling (died July
2jf 1899); Gladys Minerva; Muriel Durfee, and Harriet
Dorothy. Howard Seymour Borden, one of Dr. Borden's
brothers, graduated from Yale College in 1898, and his
uncle, Holder Borden Durfee, with the Class of 1863.

George Clymer Brooke, B.A. 1897

Born June 5, 1875, in Birdsboro, Pa.
Died May 7, 1915, in Ardmore, Pa.

George Clymer Brooke was born on June 5, 1875, in
Birdsboro, Pa., where his father, Edward Brooke, was
engaged as a leading ironmaster until his death in 1878.
His mother was Annie Moore, daughter of Daniel R. and
Delia (Pier son) Clymer; in 1890 she was married to Rev.
Dr. Randolph Harrison McKim (B.A. University of
Virginia 1861).

He prepared for college in Washington, D. C, and at St.
Paul's School, Concord, N. H. There he had an unusually
brilliant record for scholarship, and filled several important
positions as the choice of his masters or schoolmates. Upon
entering Yale he became at once a leader in his Class, and
in Freshman year he was elected manager of the Class Nine.
He received Oration appointments both in Junior year and
at graduation, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was
chosen a member of the Junior Promenade and of the Class
Day committees, and was, first, assistant manager, and,
later, manager of the University Baseball Team.

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After leaving college, he and his roommate, Robert S.
Brewster, traveled for a year around the world ; since their
return in the spring of 1898, Mr. Brooke had been in busi-
ness in Philadelphia, his first connection being with the
banking house of Brown Brothers and Company. In 1902
he left that concern to go to Cassatt & Company, where he
remained for two years, and two years later he became a
member of the brokerage firm of George S. Fox & Sons.
He became connected with Drexel & Company in 1909, being
made a partner in that firm in 191 1, and continued in that
position until ill health compelled him to resign in the winter
of 191 5, a few months before his death, which occurred at
his home in Ardmore, Pa., on May 7. He was buried in
the cemetery of the Church of the Redeemer in Bryn Mawr,
Pa., of which church he was a member.

Mr. Brooke had been interested in various corporations,
and was a director of the Central National Bank of Phila-
delphia and the Union Fire Insurance Company of the
State of Philadelphia. On February 12, 1901, he was mar-
ried in Ardmore to Rhoda Fuller, daughter of Effingham
Buckley Morris (B.A. University of Pennsylvania 1875,
LL.B. 1878) and Ellen Douglas (Burroughs) Morris of
that town, and sister of Effingham B. Morris, Jr. (B.A.
1911). She survives him with their two children, a daugh-
ter, Rhoda M., and a son, George Clymer, Jr. He leaves
also two brothers : Robert Edward (Ph.B. 1894) and Fred-
erick Hiester (B.A. 1899).

Thomas Francis FitzGerald, B.A. 1897

Born July 6, 1872, in Hopkinton, Mass.
Died August 29, 1914, in Boston, Mass.

Thomas Francis FitzGerald, son of Michael FitzGerald,
a merchant, and Joanna (Savage) FitzGerald, was born in
Hopkinton, Mass., on July 6, 1872. In Senior year at Yale
he received a Colloquy appointment, and was awarded the
Cobden Club Medal.

After graduation he entered the Harvard Law School,
from which institution he received the degree of Bachelor
of Laws in 1899. For a time thereafter he was associated
with Mr. David B. Shaw in Boston, Mass., in the firm of

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Shaw & FitzGerald, but in 1904 he opened an office by him-
self, and had since practiced alone. For four years, begin-
ning in 1903, he served as a member of the Boston Common
Council.

He died, from Bright's disease, in the Carney Hospital,
Boston, on August 29, 19 14. Burial was in Holy Cross
Cemetery in Maiden, Mass.

Mr. FitzGerald's marriage took place on January 12,
19 10, in New York City to Mary, daughter of James and
Elizabeth (Reynolds) Cummins. They had four children:
Mary (died a few days after birth) ; Marie Agnes ;
Thomas Cummins, and Margaret Elizabeth.

Stewart Patterson, B.A. 1897

Born January 2, 1875, in Chicago, 111.
Died June 18, 1915, in Medford, Ore.

Stewart Patterson, son of John Closey Patterson, a law-
yer, who left the Class of 1866 at Yale in his Junior year
to serve in the Civil War, and who in 1870 was graduated
from the Chicago Law School, was born on January 2,
1875, in Chicago, 111. His mother's maiden name was
Jennie Stewart. Receiving his preparation for college at
the Lawrenceville (N. J.) School and at St. Paul's School,
Concord, N. H., he entered Yale in 1893. He belonged to
the Golf Club.

Although he spent the first three years after graduation-
in the study of law at Northwestern University, receiving
the degree of LL.B. in 1901, and was admitted to the bar,
he had never practiced that profession. His first business
connection was with the California Package Fruit Com-
pany in Chicago, after which he was engaged in the fire
insurance business with the Fred S. James Company. He
was later connected with the Pacific Surety Company as
general agent in Chicago, but early in 1912 removed to
Medford, Ore., where he had since made his home, being
engaged in orcharding as the owner of a ranch at Talent,
that state.

Mr. Patterson's death occurred on June 18, 191 5, from
injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Burial was
in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.

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He was married in that city on June 2, 1902, to Nannine,
daughter of James L. and Nannie (McElwee) Waller,
who survives him with their son, Stewart, Jr.

Justus Miles Forman, B.A. 1898

Born November 1, 1875, in LeRoy, N. Y.
Died May 7, 191 5, at sea

Justus Miles Forman was born on November 1, 1875, in
LeRoy, N. Y., his parents being Jonathan Miles Forman, a
lawyer, and Mary (Cole) Forman. His family removing
to Minneapolis, Minn., in 1883, he received his preparatory
training at the high school in that city. He took his first
•year of college work at the University of Minnesota, join-
ing the Class of 1898 at Yale as a Sophomore. He received
Dispute appointments.

After passing the three years following his graduation in
the study of art in Paris, France, in the Ateliers Julien under
Bouguereau, Baschet, and Laurens, he abandoned his inten-
tion of following that profession, and had since given his
attention almost entirely to writing. Numerous short
stories from his pen had appeared in various magazines, —
some in Everybody's Magazine, Collier's Weekly, the Cos-
mopolitan, the Windsor Magazine (London), and others,
but the majority in Harper's. His first book, "The Garden
of Lies," published in 1902, was later dramatized by Mr.
Forman in collaboration with Sydney Grundy. His other
novels include "Journey's End" (1903) ; "Monsigny"
(1904); "Tommy Carteret" (1905); "Buchanan's Wife"
(1906); "The Stumbling Block" (1907); "Jason" (1909) ;
"Bianca's Daughter" (1910) ; "The Unknown Lady"
(1911); "The Opening Door" (1913), and "The Blind
Spot" (1914). Some of these ran as serial stories in
magazines before appearing in book form. Only a few
weeks before his death his play, "The Hyphen," dealing
with the German-American question, was produced in New
York City.

About half of each year Mr. Forman spent in travel, and,
among other places, he had visited Spain, Greece, Turkey,
Italy, North Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the South
Pacific Islands, Macedonia, and Dalmatia. He was a Fellow

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of the Royal Geographical Society, and a member of the
American Art Club of Paris and the Century Club of New
York City.

On May 7, 1915, when the Lusitania, on which he was
sailing to England, was sunk by a German submarine, he
was among the many who lost their lives. He was
unmarried, and is survived by his mother and three sisters.

Herbert Adolph Scheftel, B.A. 1898

Born April 17, 1875, in New York City
Died September 12, 1914, in East Williston, Long Island, N. Y.

Herbert Adolph Scheftel, son of Adolph Scheftel, a
leather merchant, and Sophie (King) Scheftel, was born
on April 17, 1875, in New York City, where he was pre-
pared for college privately and at the Woodbridge School.
He received a Colloquy appointment in Junior year and a
Dispute at Commencement.

Since graduation he had been continuously with the bank-
ing firm of J. S. Bache & Company in New York City. He
was taken into partnership in 1900, purchasing in that year
a seat in the New York Stock Exchange. He was a member
of the Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Scheftel died, from endocarditis, at his summer
home in East Williston, Long Island, N. Y., on September
12, 1914. Burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York.

His marriage took place in New York City on January
17, 1907, to Vivian, daughter of the late Isidor Straus and
Ida (Blun) Straus. Mrs. Scheftel survives him with their
two sons : Herbert Straus and Stuart Adolph. In memory
of her husband, she has given a sum of money towards the
endowment of the Yale University Press.

Norman Macleod Burrell, B.A. 1899

Born March 6, 1878, in Dubuque, Iowa
Died July 6, 1914, in Madison, N. J.

Norman Macleod Burrell was born in Dubuque, Iowa,
on March 6, 1878, being one of the six children of Rev.

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David James Burrell (B.A. 1867), pastor of the Marble
Collegiate Church of New York City, who received the hon-
orary degree of D.D. from Parsons College in 1883 and that
of LL.D. from Hope College in 1900, and Clara Sergeant
(DeForest) Burrell. His preparation for Yale was received
at the Collegiate School in New York City. In college he
was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, received Oration
appointments, and, in 1898, was an editor of the Banner.

After graduation he entered the Columbia Law School,
taking his degree from that institution in 1902. He then
became associated with Russell E. Burke (B.A. Columbia
1894, IX.B. 1896) in the practice of his profession in New
York City. In 19 10 this partnership was succeeded by that
of Burke, Burrell & Southard, in which Robert Hamilton
Southard (B.A. Princeton 1899, LL.B. Columbia 1902)
became a partner, and two years later, the firm of Burke,
Burrell & Mitchell was formed, being composed of Mr.
Burrell, Mr. Burke, and George H. Mitchell (B.A. 1899,
LL.B. Columbia 1902).

His death occurred, from leuchsemia, at the family
summer home in Madison, N. J., on July 6, 1914. Burial
was in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Mr. Burrell was married on October 29, 1907, to Natalie,
daughter of Albert E. and Emma M. (Knapp) Colfax of
New York City, who survives him. They had no children.
His brother, Rev. David DeForest Burrell, graduated at
Yale in 1898 and from the Princeton Theological Seminary
in 1901, and an uncle, Rev. Dr. Joseph Dunn Burrell,
received his B.A. from Yale in 1881.

Frederick Martin Davies, B.A. 1899

Born September 12, 1877, in New York City-
Died May 2, 191 5, in New York City

Frederick Martin Davies was born on September 12,
1877, in New York City, where his father, Julien Tappan
Davies, is still engaged in the practice of law. The elder
Davies, whose parents were Judge Henry Ebenezer Davies
and Rebecca Waldo (Tappan) Davies, served as a member
of the Twenty-second New York Volunteers during the
Civil War, and was graduated from Columbia College in

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1866, taking an LL.B. there two years later. He married
Alice, daughter of Henry H. Martin. Their son received
his preparatory training in New York City and at St. Paul's
in Concord, N. H. In college he served on the editorial
board of the News and as business manager of the Courant
in Senior year.

He spent the summer of 1899 abroad, upon his return
to this country entering the employ of the New York
Central & Hudson River Railroad at Albany, a year later
being appointed claim agent for the Mohawk division of
the road. In March, 1902, he formed a connection with
the banking house of Kountze Brothers, but after a year
went into business as a member of the banking and
brokerage firm of Alexander, Thomas & Davies. Three
years afterwards this concern was reorganized as Davies,
Thomas & Company, and he continued as senior partner
until his death, although recently he had not given much
time to business. He had also served as president, man-
ager, and a director of the Bancroft Realty Company and
as treasurer and a director of the Eastchester Syndicate
Company, Inc. He was treasurer of the National Horse
Show Association of America. His summer home was at
Southampton, Long Island.

Following an attack of pneumonia about two years ago,
Mr. Davies' health had been poor, and he had spent much
of the winter of 1915 in California and Florida. He died,
from a complication of diseases, at his home in New York
City on May 2, 191 5. Interment was in Fishkill, N. Y.

He was married on April 2J, 1901, to Emily, daughter
of Eugene M. O'Neill of Pittsburgh, Pa., who survives him
with their three children: Emily, Frederick Martin, Jr.,
and Audrey. His brother, Julien Townsend Davies,
graduated from Columbia in 1891.

Frank Joseph Franey, B.A. 1899

Born September 14, 1874, in Hartford, Conn.
Died March 26, 1914, in New Haven, Conn.

Frank Joseph Franey was one of the three sons of John
Franey, who served for a number of years as tax collector
of Hartford, Conn., and Mary (Duffy) Franey, and was

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born in Hartford on September 14, 1874. His preparatory-
training was received at the Robbins School in Norfolk,
Conn., and at the Hillhouse High School in New Haven.
He received a Colloquy appointment in his Senior year at
Yale.

During the year 1899-1900 he taught in the Booth Pre-
paratory School, New Haven, spending the following year
teaching in Hamden, Conn. He had later spent about
four years in private tutoring. For several years he was
employed as a clerk by the New England Knitting Company
of Winsted, Conn., but the condition of his health at length
forced him to give up that work.

His death occurred, from tuberculosis, at his home in New
Haven on March 26, 1914. He was of the Roman Catholic
faith and unmarried.

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, B.A. 1899

Born October 20, 1877, in New York City-
Died May 7, 1915, at sea

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was born on October 20, 1877,
in New York City, the son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, a capi-
talist, whose principal connections had been with the New
York Central & Hudson River Railroad, and who received
an honorary M.A. from Hobart College in 1889 and from
Yale in 1894. His mother was Alice Claypoole, daughter
of Abram Evans Gwynne (B.A. 1839), and granddaughter
of Henry Collins Flagg (B.A. 1811). He entered Yale
from St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., having previously
attended the Cutler School in New York City, and in col-
lege served on the Junior Promenade and Class Supper
committees.

After a period of travel following his graduation, Mr.
Vanderbilt entered the general offices of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company in order to
familiarize himself with railroad management. He had
large interests in the New York Central Realty & Terminal
Company, and was connected with various other corpora-
tions, including the Raquette Lake Railway Company, the
Raquette Lake Transportation Company, the Fulton Naviga-

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tion Company, the Equitable Life Assurance Company, and
the Plaza Bank.

His travels had been extensive. He was one of the most
prominent horsemen in America, exhibiting his horses at
practically every show of importance in this country, as
well as in England, where he had also done much to revive
coaching, at one time running a stagecoach line between
London and Brighton. He was a director of the Inter-
national Horse Show Association of London, and had served
as president of the National Horse Show Association of
America. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal
Church.

Mr. Vanderbilt' s life was lost in the Lusitania disaster of
May 7, 1915.

On January 11, 1901, he was married in Newport, R. I.,
to Ellen, daughter of Francis Ormond French (B.A. Har-
vard 1857, LL.B. 1859) and Ellen (Tuck) French. They
were later divorced, and Mr. Vanderbilt was married in
London, England, December 17, 191 1, to Mrs. Margaret
(Emerson) McKim, daughter of Isaac E. and Emilie
Emerson, who survives him with two sons, Alfred Gwynne,
Jr., and George. He leaves also a son by his first mar-
riage,— William Henry. His eldest brother, William
Henry, died during his college course, but was granted his
degree as with the Class of 1893; two other brothers, —
Cornelius (B.A. 1895, Ph.B. 1898, M.E. 1899), and
Reginald Claypoole (B.A. 1902), — survive. His uncle,
Frederick W. Vanderbilt, is a member of the Class of
1876 S., and numerous other relatives have attended Yale.
One of his sisters is the wife of Harry Payne Whitney
(B.A. 1894).

Howard Boocock, B.A. 1900

Born May 22, 1876, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Died March 22, 191 5, in New York City

Howard Boocock, son of Samuel Ward and Mary Car-
penter (Underhill) Boocock, was born on May 22, 1876, in
Brooklyn, N. Y., where he was prepared for college at the
Brooklyn Latin School. He entered Yale in 1895, but

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joined the Class with which he was graduated in Fresh-
man year.

The year following his graduation from Yale he spent
abroad, upon his return becoming connected with the bank-
ing firm of S. W. Boocock & Company, of New York City,
of which his father was the head. In 1906 he became asso-
ciated with the Astor Trust Company as secretary, and
had continued with that concern ever since, for the past
three years serving in the capacity of treasurer. For eight
years his home was in Englewood, N. J., but for some time
he had lived in New York City. He belonged to the
Protestant Episcopal Church.

He died by his own hand, in a moment of temporary
mental derangement, at his home on March 22, 1915.
Burial was in the family mausoleum in Greenwood Ceme-
tery in Brooklyn.

On April 15, 1901, he was married in Brooklyn to Adele,
daughter of George W. and Bella (Robinson) Kenyon.
They had two children, Mary and Kenyon. Murray Boo-
cock, a non- graduate member of the Class of 1894, is a
brother.

Frank Taylor Crawford, B.A. 1900

Born August 16, 1877, in Mansfield, Ohio
Died January 29, 1915, in Chicago, 111.

Frank Taylor Crawford, son of Benjamin Franklin and
Aurelia (Taylor) Crawford, was born in Mansfield, Ohio,
on August 16, 1877. After preparing for college at Phil-
lips Academy at Andover, Mass., he came to Yale, where
he was captain of the Freshman Baseball Team, an editor
of the Pot-Pourri in Senior year, and received Colloquy
appointments.

His father was one of the founders of the National Bis-
cuit Company of Chicago, 111., and for many years presi-
dent of that concern, and Mr. Crawford had been
connected with the company since his graduation in 1900,
holding the position of purchasing agent and assistant
manager of the flour department.

He had been suffering from a nervous disorder for about
a year before his death, the seriousness of which at length

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compelled him to give up business activities. On January
29, 19 1 5, he ended his life by leaping from a window on
the third floor of his home. He was buried in Rosehill
Cemetery in Chicago.

On June 16, 1903, he was married in that city to Mari
Brainerd, daughter of Luther Laflin Mills, a non-graduate
member of the Class of 1869 at the University of Michigan,
and Ella Jessup (Boies) Mills. Mrs. Crawford, who is a
sister of Matthew Mills (B.A. 1900), survives her hus-
band. He leaves also four sons: Mills, Donald, Benjamin,
and David. Alan McLean Taylor (B.A. 1902) is a cousin.

Lewis Edward Hemenway, B.A. 1901

Born June 12, 1877, in Manchester, Vt.
Died March 2, 1915, in Manchester Center, Vt.

Lewis Edward Hemenway was born in Manchester, Vt.,
ori June 12, 1877, being the son of Lewis Hunt and Maria
(Reed) Hemenway. His father graduated from Middle-
bury College in 1864, and later studied at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons in New York City and at the
University of Vermont, receiving the degree of M.D. from
the latter institution in 1866. The son was prepared for
college in the public schools of his native town, and at
Burr and Burton Seminary, also located at Manchester.

After graduating from Yale he spent one year in the
study of medicine at the University of Vermont, two at
the University of Michigan, and two at the Detroit College
of Medicine, from which he received his medical degree in
1906. He served an interneship of a year at the Troy
Hospital in Troy, N. Y., and then settled in his native
town, where he later succeeded to the practice of his father,
who retired in 1912. He was a member of the First
Congregational Church of Manchester.

Dr. Hemenway's death occurred after an illness of only
five days, from pneumonia, at his home in Manchester
Center on March 2, 191 5. Interment was in Dellwood
Cemetery, Manchester.

He was married on September 12, 1910, in Middlebury,
Vt, to Mabel, daughter of Henry and Anna (Murdock)
Merrill of that town, who survives him with a son, Merrill.

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Dr. Hemenway is survived also by his parents, a sister, and
three brothers. One of the latter, Charles Reed Hemenway,
took his B.A. at Yale in 1897.

Emory Hopewell Lindenberger, B.A. 1901

Born March 29, 1878, in Louisville, Ky.
Died December 25, 1914, in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Emory Hopewell Lindenberger, son of Jacob Hopewell
and Sarah Elizabeth (Gamble) Lindenberger, was born in
Louisville, Ky., on March 29, 1878, and was prepared for
college at the Louisville Training School for Boys. He
received Colloquy appointments at Yale.

After graduation he studied at the University of Louis-
ville for a time, taking his degree in law there in 1902.
He then entered upon the practice of his profession in the
office of Mr. A. M. Rutledge, but after about eighteen
months his health failed and tuberculosis developed. Since
then he had spent his time in Colorado and Texas, strug-
gling against this disease, but his efforts were unsuccessful,
and he died in Colorado Springs, Colo., on December 25,
1914. He was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.

Mr. Lindenberger served in the National Guard of Ken-
tucky for several years. He was unmarried, and is sur-
vived by three sisters and two brothers.

William Alexander Penny, B.A. 1901

Born November 25, 1878, in St. Louis, Mo.
Died November 22, 1914, in Webster Groves, Mo.

William Alexander Penny was born on November 25,
1878, in St. Louis, Mo., and received his preparation for
college at Smith Academy in that place. In Junior and
Senior years at Yale he was given Colloquy appointments.

His father, Alexander Penny, was born near Peterhead,
Scotland, as was his mother, Jane (Morrison) Penny. He
came in 1870 to St) Louis, where three years later he estab-
lished the retail dry goods department store of Penny &
Gentles, the oldest firm of its kind now in existence in St.

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Louis. Since his graduation from Yale, William A. Penny,
had been associated with his father in the firm.

He was a member of the First Congregational Church at
Webster Groves, Mo., a leading suburb of St. Louis, where
he had made his home from the time he was twelve years
old, and had served as chairman of its board of trustees,
held various other offices, and was active in the work of
the Sunday school.

Mr. Penny's death, which was due to the hardening of
the arteries leading to the brain, occurred at his home on
November 22, 1914. Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery,
Webster Groves.

He was married on April 18, 1906, to Laura Strong Shel-
don (B.A. Cornell 1902), who survives him with their
two daughters: Elizabeth Jane and Ellen Sheldon. Mrs.
Penny is of distinguished Puritan and colonial ancestry,
being a descendant, through a long line of New England
ancestors, of Elder Brewster, who came over in the May-
flower. Her father, Herbert Franklin Sheldon, coming to
Kansas in 1858, became one of the early settlers of Ottawa,
and has been prominently associated with the history of
that city for fifty years. He was elected in 1897 to the
Kansas State Senate, where he served two terms. Her
mother was Ellen (Gray) Sheldon.

Harvey Thomas Weeks, Jr., B.A. 1901

Born November 12, 1877, in Chicago, 111.
Died July 28, 1914, in Chicago, 111.

Harvey Thomas Weeks, Jr., son of Harvey Thomas and
Joan Elizabeth (Marcy) Weeks, was born in Chicago, 111.,
on November 12, 1877. His father, a resident of that
city since 1869, founded the firm of Harvey T. Weeks &
Company, and served for a number of years as president
of the West Park Board Commission. Receiving his prepa-
ration for college at The Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., the
son entered Yale in 1897.

After graduation he studied law for a year at Harvard,
and then returning home, entered his father's real estate
business in 1903. He remained with that firm as vice
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real estate interests, he served for seven years as sole tax
agent for the city of Chicago.

He had been a sufferer from diabetes for three years
and over, but was not confined to his home until two weeks
prior to his death, which occurred in Chicago on July 28,
1914. He had previously sought to regain his health at
various resorts, but without success. Interment was in
Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. He was a member of the
Third Presbyterian Church of that city.

His marriage took place on June 8, 1907, in Chicago to
Edyth Evelyn, daughter of John I. and Mary (Todd)
Beggs. They had three children: Harvey Thomas, 3d
(died September 13, 1908), Dian Marcy, and Marcy
Thomas. Mrs. Weeks, with the two younger children,
survives him.

Arthur Crosby Ludington, B.A. 1902

Born March 6, 1880, in New York City-
Died November 4, 1914, in London, England

Arthur Crosby Ludington, son of Charles Henry Lud-
ington, a wholesale dry-goods dealer in New York City
until 1868, who died in 19 10, and Josephine Lord (Noyes)
Ludington, who died in 1908, was born in New York City
on March 6, 1880. An ancestor of his father came to this
country from England in 1639. On the maternal side he
was a descendant of Rev. James Noyes, one of the found-
ers and first trustees of Yale College. His preparation for
college was received at the Black Hall (Conn.) School
and at St. Paul's in Concord, N. H. In college he wrote
for the Lit and C our ant, won the Lit medal in 1901, and
made Chi Delta Theta ; sang on the Freshman, Apollo, and
University Glee clubs ; took honors in English composition
Sophomore year, received Oration appointments, and was
a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was active in Dwight
Hall work for the first two and a half years, head of Yale
Hall and chairman of the City Missions Committee in 1901,
and of the Foreign Missions Committee in 1902. He
served on the Class Picture Committee.

After leaving college he was connected for two and a
half years with a brokerage firm in New York City, and

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then went to Princeton as an instructor and assistant to
President Wilson. In the summer of 1907 he went to
Germany and studied in Heidelberg University, and he
later took courses at Columbia. Since that time he had
chosen to devote his whole energy to public service. He
identified himself with political reform work in New York,
taking a special interest in the betterment of election laws.
He was active in framing the direct nominations and
Massachusetts ballot bills, which are now laws of New
York State. He served for several years as a member of
the legislative committee of the Citizen's Union of New
York City, and was active in the National Short Ballot
Association. Among his achievements was the compilation
of the variations in the forms of the ballot from the days
of the "vest pocket" variety to the times of the Australian
and Composite forms of the ballot. From February until
October, 19 12, he was attached to the Department of the
Interior at Washington, and during this period wrote a
special report on the Indian policy of the United States
government. He had written various political pamphlets
and magazine articles, had read papers before various
organizations, and in 191 1 was associate editor of the
National Municipal Review.

Among other organizations he was a member of the
American Political Science Association, the American
Academy of Political and Social Science, the American
Association for Labor Legislation, the National Municipal
League, the Intercollegiate Civic League, the New York
Civil Service Reform Association, and the New York Tax
Reform Association. He belonged to the Madison Square
Presbyterian Church of New York City, and during 1904-05
served as a deacon.

Mr. Ludington left this country in November, 1913, for a
visit to England, to be followed by a trip around the world.
It was his intention to go to New Zealand and other
countries in which particularly effective social progress has
been made, but at the outbreak of hostilities his content-
plated journey had to be abandoned. He devoted himself
to a study of the causes of the European war, and then
from deep sympathy with the principles for which the
Allies are fighting, rather than from desire for adventure,
endeavored to enter the English Army. Finding that

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American citizens were not being accepted, he volunteered
his services to the Red Cross. His death occurred in Lon-
don on November 4, 1914, following the accidental dis-
charge of a revolver, when packing his equipment for Red
Cross work in an ambulance corps on the Continent. The
burial was at Lyme, Conn. A memorial published by the
City Club of New York has been distributed among his
friends.

He was unmarried, and is survived by two brothers, —
William Howard and Charles Henry, — both graduates of
Yale in the Class of 1887, and by three sisters. Among
other relatives who have attended Yale are his cousins :
Winthrop G. Noyes (B.A. 1891) ; C. Reinold Noyes (B.A.
1905) ; D. Raymond Noyes (B.A. 1905) ; Robert H. Noyes
(B.A. 1908) ; Charles N. Loveland (B.A. 1894), and Henry
P. Moseley (B.A. 1894).

Andrew Dickson Packer, B.A. 1902

Bom August 30, 1879, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Died February 1, 1915, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Andrew Dickson Packer was born in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
on August 30, 1879, tne son °f William Satterlee Packer,
a graduate of Yale College in 1866 and of the Columbia
Law School in 1871, who gave most of his attention during
his lifetime to his extensive business interests rather than
to the practice of law, and Mary Keys (Jones) Packer. His
paternal grandmother was the founder of Packer Collegiate
Institute in Brooklyn, and his father had served as one of
its trustees for a number of years. He prepared at the
Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., and entered Yale in
September, 1897, with the Class of 1901, but later joined
the Class of 1902. During his college course he was a
member of the Freshman Glee Club for a while.

After graduating he began the study of medicine, taking
the degree of M.D. from the Long Island College Hospital
in 1907. He then entered upon an interneship in St. Vin-
cent's Hospital in New York City, and upon the completion
of that service started the practice of medicine in
Brooklyn.

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He had been connected with the Long Island College
Hospital, the Swedish Hospital, the Bushwick Hospital, and
the Brooklyn City Dispensary. He also for a time acted as
physician in charge of the employees of Frederick Loeser
& Company in Brooklyn. He was a member of Holy
Trinity Church of that place.

Dr. Packer died, from spinal sclerosis, at his home in
Brooklyn on February I, 19 15. In the last two or three
years his health had been failing gradually, and when the
trouble with his spine developed he was not in such a
condition that he could stand treatment. The burial was
in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn.

On August 16, 191 1, he was married in Raleigh, N. C,
to Sophie Graham, daughter of Rev. James Edward Booker
and Sara (Peck) Booker of Farmville, Va. His wife, his
mother, a sister, and a brother, — Rev. William Satterlee
Packer (B.A. 1898, B.D. Cambridge Episcopal Theological
School 1901), — survive him.

Walter DeWitt Boggs, B.A. 1904

Born October 26, 1882, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Died January 5, 1915, in Altadena, Calif.

Walter DeWitt Boggs was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on
October 26, 1882, the son of Walter DeWitt Clinton Boggs,
who was connected with the Mechanics Bank of that place,
and Mary Emily (Ingram) Boggs. Before coming to Yale
he attended the Polytechnic Preparatory School in Brook-
lyn and the Brooklyn Latin School. He received a Col-
loquy appointment in Junior year and a Dispute at
Commencement.

In February, 1905, he entered the Jamaica State Normal
School at Jamaica, Long Island, securing his license after
one year's residence. He then spent some months traveling
in England, France, Belgium, Austria, and Switzerland.

Upon his return to America in September, 1906, he
entered the Long Island College Hospital, from which he
received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1910; he
was also given at that time the Dudley Memorial Gold
Medal for the best medical clinical report of a medical
case in the wards of the hospital and a special diploma for

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excellence in physical diagnosis. In a competitive exami-
nation held in February, 19 10, for an interneship at the
Long Island College Hospital, he made first place, and
chose a one year's service on the first surgical division ; but
owing to ill health, he was soon compelled to resign this
appointment, and in October, 19 10, removed to California,
and settled in Pasadena, where he took up the practice of
his profession, making a specialty of pathology and chil-
dren's diseases. He had also served as an instructor in the
medical department of the University of Southern Califor-
nia. A number of his articles on the diseases of children
had been published.

He died, after a long illness, at his home in Altadena,
Calif., on January 5, 1915. The interment was in that city.

His marriage took place in Los Angeles, Calif., on March
8, 191 3, to Myrtle Eleanor, daughter of James William and
Emma (Hisey) Heinecke. Besides his wife, he is survived
by his parents and two sisters.

Shelby Williams Bonnie, B.A. 1904

Born September 14, 1881, in Nashville, Tenn.
Died December 5, 1914, in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Shelby Williams Bonnie, son of Robert Palen and Maude
(Williams) Bonnie, was born on September 14, 1881, in
Nashville, Tenn. His preparatory training was received at
Flexner's School in Louisville, Ky., to which place his
family had removed in 1880, and in college he received
Colloquy appointments. Through his mother he was a
descendant of Shelby and Sevier, both of whom partici-
pated in the battle of King's Mountain in the Revolution.
His great-grandfather, A. N. Sevier, was for twelve years
United States senator from Arkansas, where he had gone
as a young man to practice law. His grandfather, Shelby
Williams, for whom he was named, served for four years
as a colonel in the Confederate Army.

Since 1904 Mr. Bonnie had been vice president of Bon-
nie Brothers, Inc., distillers, of Louisville, with whom his
father was connected until his death on January 11, 1904.
He had served as a director and member of the executive
committee of the National Model License League. For

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nineteen years he had been a member of Christ Church
Cathedral (Protestant Episcopal) of that city.

He died on December 5, 1914, in Colorado Springs, Colo.,
from heart failure. Burial was in Cave Hill Cemetery,
Louisville.

His marriage took place on February 2, 1907, in Louis-
ville to Laura, daughter of George Chester and Jessie
(Swope) Norton, who survives him without children. Two
brothers, — Robert Palen Bonnie and Hundley Sevier Bon-
nie,— graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School, in
191 1 and 1914, respectively.

Carl Ostrum, B.A. 1905

Born January 2, 1883, in Fairport, Kans.
Died December 14, 1914, in Bunkerhill, Kans.

Carl Ostrum, son of Ola Ostrum, a farmer, and Mary
(Johnson) Ostrum, was born in Fairport, Kans., on Jan-
uary 2, 1883, and received his preparation for college at
the high school in Bunkerhill, that state. In 1904 he was
graduated with the degree of B.A. from Bethany College
at Lindsborg, Kans., where he was active in the work of
the Y. M. C. A., and then came to Yale. He took his B.A.
in 1905, having received a Colloquy appointment for his
year's work, and received the degree of Master of Arts
in 1906.

In the fall of 1907, after another year of graduate work
in English at Yale, he went to St. Peter, Minn., to take
up his duties as instructor in English at Gustavus Adolphus
College, a position which he was forced to resign after a
few months because of ill health.

From 1908 to 1910 he was principal of the high school
in Bunkerhill, and during the following year he had charge
of the English department at Tabor College, Tabor, Iowa.
In 191 1 he became an instructor in English at the State
Agricultural and Mechanical College at Stillwater, Okla.,
and the following September took up his work as assistant
professor in that subject at the Kansas State Agricultural
College in Manhattan. While at the latter institution he
was very successful as a debating coach.

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In the spring of 1914 he was compelled to give up
his work on account of the condition of his health, and
returned to his parents' home in Bunkerhill, where he died
on December 14, 1914. His death was due to tuberculosis.
The burial was at Bunkerhill.

Mr. Ostrum had written somewhat for the newspapers.
He was a member of the Mount Zion Evangelical Luth-
eran Church of Bunkerhill, and had served for several
years as president of the Sunday School Association of
Russell County, Kans.

He was unmarried, and is survived by his parents, four
brothers, and four sisters. A brother and a sister died in
infancy.

Ralph Hill Thomas, B.A. 1905

Born February 6, 1882, in Boston, Mass.
Died December 31, 1914, in New York City-
Ralph Hill Thomas was born in Boston, Mass., on Feb-
ruary 6, 1882, the son of Joseph Brown Thomas, a gradu-
ate of Wesley an in 1870, who served for many years as
a trustee of that institution, and Annie M. (Hill) Thomas.
His preparatory training was received at the Berkeley and
Blake schools in New York City. In college he took part
in track work, and was a member of the University Swim-
ming Association, of which he was secretary and treasurer
in Sophomore year. He did much for the Yale Yacht Club,
of which he was commodore.

Mr. Thomas had not been actively engaged in any busi-
ness for some time, although for four years he was con-
nected with the American Sugar Refining Company, of
which his father was a director, as assistant secretary. He
had also served as a director of the Fruit Traction Com-
pany. After graduation he traveled abroad extensively,
and in 1910 he went around the world with his wife.

He died, after a short illness from pneumonia, at his
home in New York City on December 31, 1914. The
interment was at Forest Hills, Boston.

His marriage took place in New York City on July 11,
1910, to Mrs. Helen M. (Kelly) Gould, daughter of Edward
and Helen (Pearsall) Kelly. Besides his wife, he is sur-

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vived by his mother andj. brother, Joseph B. Thomas (B.A.
1903). A cousin, Ebenezer Hill, Jr., graduated from the
College in 1897.

Robert Landon Rogers, B.A. 1906

Born October 12, 1883, in Westerly, R. I.
Died May 25, 1915, in Providence, R. I.

Robert Landon Rogers was born on October 12, 1883, in
Westerly, R. I., the son of Frederick Tuttle Rogers (B.A.
Union College 1880, M.D. New York University 1882),
who is at present practicing as an oculist in Providence,
where he serves also as a surgeon on the staffs of several
hospitals, and Carrie E. (Gavitt) Rogers. His preparation
for Yale was received at the University School in Provi-
dence. In college he was an editor of the Banner in 1905
and a member of the Class Hockey Team in Senior year.

In the fall after graduation he entered the Yale School
of Forestry, taking the degree of M.F. in 1908. He soon
received an appointment in the United States Forest Service,
and for several months was engaged in planting and coop-
erative examinations in the East and Middle West. He
spent the next four years in forest and district work in
Arizona and New Mexico, being transferred, in December,
1912, to Washington, D. C, where he continued in edi-
torial work, holding an appointment as forest examiner,
until his resignation from the Service, in January, 1914.

He then started in business for himself in Washington,
but was soon obliged to give up all activities owing to the
condition of his health. In April, 191 5, he returned to his
father's home in Providence, suffering from acute pul-
monary tuberculosis. His failure was very rapid, and his
death occurred on May 25. He was buried in Swan Point
Cemetery in Providence.

Mr. Rogers was unmarried. His brother, Fred Alexan-
der Rogers, graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School
in 1908.

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Watson Smith Harpham, B.A. 1914

Born February 23, 1892, in Chicago, 111.
Died November 5, 1914, in Evanston, 111.

Watson Smith Harpham, son of Edwin Lynn Harpham,
who studied law at the University of Chicago during
1884-85, and who is at present engaged in practice in Chi-
cago, 111., and Helen Hunt (Smith) Harpham, was born in
Chicago on February 23, 1892. His preparation for col-
lege was received at the Evanston Township High School.
He was a member of the Freshman, College, and Uni-
versity Baseball teams, was on the Banner and Pot-Pourri
board in Senior year, served on the Class Picture Commit-
tee, and received a Colloquy appointment in Junior year
and a Dispute at Commencement.

Mr. Harpham died, from a revolver shot wound, at his
home in Evanston, 111., on November 5, 1914. He was
buried in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. Besides his
parents, he is survived by a sister and a brother.

Ray Dashiell Palmer, B.A. 1914

Born May 9, 1893, in Newark, N. J.
Died March 14, 1915, in Perth Amboy, N. J.

Ray Dashiell Palmer, son of Rev. William Edward
Palmer, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church,
who received a B.A. in 189 1, an MA. in 1894, and a Ph.D.
in 1896 at Syracuse University, was born in Newark, N. J.,
on May 9, 1893. His paternal grandparents were Stephen
M. Palmer, a member of Company K, First New York
Engineer Volunteers in the Civil War, and Catherine
(Beecher) Palmer, who was of a branch of the Henry
Ward Beecher family. His mother was Alice Cornelia,
daughter of Rev. J. Chester Hoyt, a graduate of the Con-
cord (N. H.) Biblical Institute (now a part of Boston
University) in 1863, and Lucy Ann (Way) Hoyt; she
taught Latin and literature two years in the Illinois Wom-
an's College at Jacksonville, and afterwards studied at
Syracuse University (during 1889-90). He was prepared
for college at the Jersey City (N. J.) High School and at

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the Curtis High School on Staten Island. At Yale he sang
on the Apollo and University Glee clubs, was active in wrest-
ling and rowing, took part in the Ten Eyck public speaking
contest, and served as treasurer of Dwight Hall and as the
advertising representative of the News. He held the
Thomas Hamlin Curtis Scholarship, and received Disserta-
tion appointments.

Mr. Palmer had intended to spend the year 19 14-15
abroad, as tutor for the son of William E. Dodge Stokes
(B.A. 1874). His plans, however, were changed by the
war, and in September, 1914, he entered the employ of the
National City Bank of New York, where he was working
in the foreign sales department at the time of his death,
which occurred, from pneumonia, at the City Hospital in
Perth Amboy, N. J., on March 14, 191 5. His body was
taken to Milford, Pa., for burial.

He was not married, and is survived by his parents, three
brothers, and two sisters. Evidencing his industry and
interest in boys and others, no sooner had he graduated
from college, than he organized and operated very suc-
cessfully the Pole Bridge Camp for Boys near his parents'
summer home at Matamoras, Pa., which his father and
brothers will continue in his memory.

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Thames A. Wilcox, Ph.B. 1855

Born May 6, 1833, in West Granby, Conn.
Died April 19, 1914, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Thames A. Wilcox, son of Justus Denslow Wilcox, who
received an honorary M.D. from Yale in 1855, and wno
served in the Connecticut legislature in 1833, was born
May 6, 1833, in West Granby, Conn., where his father
was engaged in the practice of medicine. His mother was
Emmaline Betsy, daughter of Alpheus and Elizabeth
(Higley) Hayes. He received his preparatory training in
the public schools of his native town, also attending schools
in Westfield, Mass., and Suffield, Conn. Entering the Shef-
field Scientific School in the fall of 1853, he took the course
in civil engineering.

After graduation he was engaged as a teacher of mathe-
matics at a school in Indian Territory, among the Chero-
kees, for a year or two, and then for a few months was
employed as a collector for an iron foundry in Cincinnati,
Ohio. He later ran a grist mill at Milford, 111., for a short
time, and was also located in Stillwater, Minn. Removing
to Iowa, he became a civil engineer for the Chicago &
Northwestern Railroad, later being employed in a similar
capacity by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway.
At the close of the Civil War, during which he had served
as a private in the Fifth Connecticut Regiment, he went to
Waco, Texas, there engaging in cattle ranching. Not long
afterwards he became connected with the iEtna Life
Insurance Company as bookkeeper, two years later being
sent to Chicago to take the position of Western farm loan
agent for the company. He arrived there the morning after
the great fire, and as a consequence his plans were changed.
Since that time he had been located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
as farm loan agent for the JEtna. Life Insurance Company
for the state.

Mr. Wilcox died, after a brief illness due to apoplexy, in
Cedar Rapids, April 19, 1914. Burial was in Oak Hill
Cemetery, that city.

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His marriage took place in Cedar Rapids on December
1 6, 1880, to Ida Augusta, daughter of Jacob and Margaret
(Beermacher) Wetzel, who survives him with their son,
Lucian Thames, who received the degree of Ph.B. from the
Scientific School in 1907. Lucian Sumner Wilcox, a grad-
uate of the College in 1850 and of the School of Medicine in
J855, who died in 1880, was one of three brothers of Mr.
Wilcox.

Alexander Hamilton Kent, Ph.B. 1857

Born November 13, 1838, in Jackson, La.
Died August 23, 1914

It has been impossible to secure the desired information
for an obituary sketch of Mr. Kent in time for publication
in this volume. A sketch will appear in a subsequent issue
of the Obituary Record.

William Henry Pike, Ph.B. 1857

Born December 28, 1833, in Mattituck, N. Y.
Died January 11, 191 5, in Mattituck, N. Y.

William Henry Pike, son of Henry and Elizabeth
(Moore) Pike, was born on December 28, 1833, m Matti-
tuck, town of Southold, N. Y., where his father was
engaged in farming. He was a great-grandson of Daniel
Osborn, a graduate of Yale College in the Class of 1763.
His preparatory training was received at Franklinville
Academy at Franklinville, N. Y., and he took the course in
engineering at Yale.

Most of his life had been spent on his farm at Matti-
tuck. He had served as a justice of the peace, a member
of the Town Board and the Board of Health, and belonged
to the First Presbyterian Church. He had written occa-
sional newspaper articles, and had read various papers
before literary and agricultural associations.

Mr. Pike died, from paralysis, at his home on January
11, 1915. He had been in frail health for over a year.
Burial was in Bethany Cemetery, Mattituck.

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His marriage took place in Mattituck on December 28,
1863, to Harriet Halsey, daughter of William and Nancy
(Conkling) Hallock. Their five sons, — William Henry,
Jr.; Frederick Hallock; Louis Osborn; Otis Grey, and
Irwin Dudley, — with Mrs. Pike, survive him. Lawrence
Augustus Howard (B.A. 1903, LL.B. 1906) and Arthur
Ethelbert Howard, Jr. (B.A. 1914), are grand-nephews.

Juan Grinan, Ph.B. 1862

Died December 15, 1914, in New York City

It has been impossible to secure the desired information
for an obituary sketch of Mr. Grinan for publication in this
volume. A sketch will appear in a subsequent issue of the
Obituary Record.

Barton Darlington Evans, Ph.B. 1868

Born May 26, 1845, in West Chester, Pa.
Died February 28, 191 5, in Harrisburg, Pa.

Barton Darlington Evans was born in West Chester,
Pa., on May 26, 1845, an(^» after receiving his early edu-
cation at private schools in his native town (including
Wyer's Academy), in 1865 he entered the Sheffield Scien-
tific School, taking the select course. His father, Henry
S. Evans, was for forty years editor and publisher of the
Village Record of West Chester, and also served a number
of terms in both houses of the legislature of Pennsylvania,
being a senator at the time of his death on February 9,
1872. He married Jane, daughter of William Darlington,
the world-famous botanist, who was at one time a member
of Congress from Pennsylvania. The latter was prominent
in educational, scientific, and literary matters of all sorts,
and in 1848 Yale conferred the honorary degree of Doctor
of Laws upon him. Forty-four years previously he had
graduated from the Medical Department of the University
of Pennsylvania. Dr. Darlington's wife was a daughter of
Brigadier General John Lacey of Bucks County, Pa., who
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The original Darlington in this country came from Eng-
land, and settled in Chester, Pa., shortly after the arrival
of William Penn.

Returning home after graduation, Mr. Evans assisted his
father in the publication of the Village Record, upon his
death becoming editor and publisher of the paper, in con-
nection with his younger brother, William Darlington Evans
(Ph.B. 1872).

In 1892 Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania appointed Mr.
Evans superintendent of public printing and binding, and
at this time he removed to Harrisburg, where he had since
lived. He occupied that office until 1906, when he became
chief clerk of the Department of Fisheries of Pennsylvania,
which was created at that time. He continued in that
capacity until his death.

For several years he was a trustee from Chester County
of the Norristown Insane Asylum. He was a member of
the Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity of West Chester.
During the Civil War he went out in the One Hundred
Days' Emergency Service, for which duty he was made a
member of the General George A. McCall Post, Number 1,
Grand Army of the Republic. He was also one of the
original members of the Wayne Fencibles of West Chester,
now known as Company 1, Sixth Regiment, National Guard
of Pennsylvania. He was elected second lieutenant on
organizing, eventually becoming captain, and later he was
appointed a member of the staff of Major General Hart-
ranft, with the rank of major. Upon the retirement of Gen-
eral Hartranft, Mr. Evans was appointed on General George
R. Snowden's staff, with a similar rank.

His death occurred, after a prolonged illness from nephri-
tis, at his home on February 28, 1915, interment being in
the Harrisburg Cemetery.

Mr. Evans was married to Frances, daughter of Luke
and Maria (Stubbs) Bemis of Chicopee, Mass., in West
Chester, on January 25, 1878. Mrs. Evans died in Harris-
burg three years ago. They had one daughter, Elizabeth
Bemis, who survives.

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William Richardson Belknap, Ph.B. 1869

Born March 28, 1849, in Louisville, Ky.
Died June 1, 1914, in Louisville, Ky.

William Richardson Belknap was born in Louisville, Ky.,
on March 28, 1849, being the son of William Burke Bel-
knap, whose father, Morris Burke Belknap, was a pioneer
in the iron industry west of the Alleghany Mountains. His
mother was Mary, daughter of William Richardson, for
many years president of the Northern Bank of Kentucky
in Louisville, and Synia (Higgins) Richardson. He had
intended to enter Harvard, but, after graduating from
the Louisville Male High School, changed his plans, and
came to Yale, entering with the Sheffield Class of 1869.
He took the select course, was captain of the Undine Boat
Club, and, in 1869, a member of the Lit board.

During 1869-70 he continued his studies in biology at
Yale, and then, returning to Louisville, entered the business
at that time conducted by his father under the name
of W. B. Belknap & Company, but now known as the
Belknap Hardware & Manufacturing Company, and which
had been founded by his grandfather. Three years after-
wards he went abroad with his brother, the late Morris
Burke Belknap (Ph.B. 1877), to study for a year in Ger-
many. His attention since his return had been given to
his manufacturing business, of which he was chairman of
the board of directors at the time of his death. In the
spring of 1910 he had retired from the presidency of the
concern, after thirty years of service in that capacity.

Mr. Belknap was a trustee of Berea College. He had
been active in the support of the Tuskegee and Lincoln
institutes, and had taken as well a leading part in all move-
ments for the welfare of the negro element of Louisville,
besides being a liberal donor to the public school system of
the city. He had been active in the work of the Kentucky
Yale Alumni Association and of the Kentucky Scholarship
Fund, and was the founder of the William R. Belknap
prizes for excellence in geology and biology in the Sheffield
Scientific School. He was an elder in the Warren Memorial
Presbyterian Church, a director of the Associated Charities
of Louisville, and a member of the board of directors of
the Louisville Board of Trade and of the Southern Exposi-

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tion. By a generous conditional gift, he started the
campaign that gave Louisville its $400,000 Y. M. C. A.
equipment. He had also aided the Business Woman's Club
of Louisville. A story by him, entitled "The Hobby of
One Holmes," appeared in several publications about 1886,
and was translated into several foreign tongues; he had
written occasionally for the newspapers and tradespapers,
notably the Iron Age of New York.

He had been in poor health for several years, and in
March, 1914, suffered a general collapse of his physical
powers, from which he did not recover, his death occurring
at his home on June 1 of that year. Burial was in the Cave
Hill Cemetery in Louisville.

Mr. Belknap's marriage took place in New Haven, Conn.,
on December 2, 1874, to Alice Trumbull, daughter of Pro-
fessor Benjamin Silliman (B.A. 1837, M.D. South Caro-
lina Medical College 1849, LL.D. Jefferson Medical
College 1884) and Susan Huldah (Forbes) Silliman, and
sister of Benjamin Silliman (B.A. 1870). She died in
November, 1890, and on February 21, 1894, he was married
in Louisville to Juliet Rathbone, daughter of Charles G.
and Emily (Andrews) Davison, who survives him. By
his first marriage he had four daughters: Eleanor (B.A.
Vassar 1898), the wife of Lewis Craig Humphrey of
Louisville; Alice Silliman, who studied at Vassar for two
years, marrying Forbes Hawkes (B.A. 1887, M.D. Colum-
bia 1891) on April 25, 1905; Mary (Mrs. George Herbert
Gray), a graduate of Vassar in 1903, and Christine, the
wife of Charles Bonnycastle Robinson, Jr. His son, Wil-
liam, graduated from the College in 1908, and in 191 5
received an M.A. from Harvard, where he will continue
his studies for a Ph.D. Mr. Belknap's sister married
Charles J. F. Allen (B.A. 1855), wno was *or a number
of years a partner in the Belknap Hardware & Manufactur-
ing Company, and numerous other relatives have attended
Yale.

William Robert White, Ph.B. 1869

Died October 13, 1914, in Philadelphia, Pa.

It has been impossible to secure the desired information
for an obituary sketch of Mr. White in time for publication

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in this volume. A sketch will appear in a subsequent issue
of the Obituary Record.

Justus Herbert Grant, Ph.B. 1870

Born June 19, 1849, in Auburn, N. Y.
Died August 1, 1914, in Rochester, N. Y.

Justus Herbert Grant, one of the four children of Justus
Lewis and Abbey Janette (Mills) Grant, was born on June
19, 1849, m Auburn, N. Y., where his father was engaged as
a railroad manager, and where he was prepared for
Yale at the Auburn Academy. His paternal grandparents
were Justus Fales and Hannah (Hale) Grant. In the Sci-
entific School he took the civil engineering course, was
captain of the Scientific Baseball Club, and in Senior year
divided a prize for excellence in engineering studies.

Most of his life since graduation had been spent in rail-
road engineering in New York State. In 1876 he became
engineer and superintendent for George H. Thompson &
Company, contractors, of Rochester, assuming full partner-
ship in 1885. In January, 1906, he was appointed special
assistant engineer of Rochester, and since that time he had
been in charge of construction work. During 1900-01 he
was commissioner of public works for the city of Rochester.

He was a member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers and of the Engineering Society of Rochester,
was president of the board of trustees of the Unitarian
Church and a member of the board of directors of the
Mechanics Institute since 1890 and its recording secretary
from 1905.

Mr. Grant's death occurred, from anaemia of the pancreas,
on August 1, 1 9 14, in Rochester, N. Y., burial being in that
city.

His marriage took place in Rochester on April 29, 1879,
to Caroline Louise, daughter of Scott William and Esther
(Terrell) Updike. They had four children: Laura Annes-
ley; Charles Hastings; Richard Herbert, and Robert
Terrell (died in infancy).

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Wheeler deForest Edwards, Ph.B. 1872

Born November 9, 1851, in Astoria, N. Y.
Died June 23, 1914, in Los Angeles, Calif.

Wheeler deForest Edwards, son of Walter and Sarah
(deForest) Edwards, was born in Astoria, N. Y., on
November 9, 185 1. His father, a graduate of Yale in the
Class of 1820, who was for a number of years engaged in
the practice of law in New York City, was the son of
Jonathan Walter Edwards (B.A. 1789), and the great-
grandson of Rev. Jonathan Edwards (B.A. 1720). His
mother was the daughter of Lockwood deForest. Before
coming to Yale he spent several years at the College of the
City of New York, graduating there with the Class of 1871.
He took the civil engineering course in the Sheffield
Scientific School, which he entered in October, 1871.

Two years after completing his work at Yale he received
the degree of Bachelor of Laws at Columbia University,
and he had since been independently engaged in the practice
of law in New York, Everett, Wash., and Los Angeles,
Calif.

While living in Everett, Wash., he was a member of the
First Presbyterian Church, being chairman of its board of
trustees for several years previous to his removal to Los
Angeles.

Mr. Edwards died, after a long illness, in that city on
June 23, 1914. The burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery in
New York City.

His marriage took place in New York City on October
19, 1881, to Emma L., daughter of John Mason Knox, a
graduate of Columbia with the degree of B.A. in 1838.
They had two daughters: Katharine Livingston, a gradu-
ate of the University of Washington in the Class of 1905,
and Helena Roosevelt, the wife of George B. Woodruff of
Seattle, Wash. One of Mr. Edwards' brothers was the
late Charles Atwood Edwards (B.A. 1866), while another,
Walter Edwards, who died in 1895, took a B.A. at Williams
in 1855, and received an honorary M.A. from Yale in 1890.

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Edward Julius Hall, Ph.B. 1873

Born March 31, 1853, in Perth Amboy, N. J.
Died September 17, 1914, in Watkins, N. Y.

Edward Julius Hall was born in Perth Amboy, N. J.,
on March 31, 1853, the son of Edward Julius and Mary
(Hoey) Hall, who later removed to Buffalo, N. Y. On his
father's side, he was a descendant of Rev. Thomas Buck-
ingham, a member of Yale's first board of trustees. In the
Scientific School he took the course in mechanical
engineering.

Returning to Buffalo after graduation, he was engaged
in business there for a time, managing the factory of Hall
& Sons at Black Rock from 1875 to 1879, and conducting
a column in the Buffalo Courier. At this time he also
served as organist in the Calvary Presbyterian Church, and
later in the Westminster Presbyterian Church.

As early as 1875 he became interested in the telephone,
particularly in the development of long-distance service;
and in 1877, when the parent company of the present Bell
system was organized, he formed a telephone company in
Buffalo, under the name of Hall & Palmer. In 1879 he
organized the Bell Telephone Company of Buffalo, of which
he became vice president and general manager, resigning
from that position in 1882, to go to New York to take the
presidency of the Perth Amboy Terra Cotta Company,
which had been founded by his brother, the late William
Cornelius Hall (Ph.B. 1875), two years before. Three
years later Mr. Hall became vice president and general
manager of the American Telephone & Telegraph Com-
pany, and in 1910 he was elected chairman of the executive
committee of the Western Telegraph Company.

He had served as a director in numerous concerns, and
was a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of
London, England, the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, and the American Institute of Mining Engineers.

Mr. Hall died suddenly, from paralysis, in Watkins,
N. Y., on September 17, 1914, and was buried in Morris-
town, N. J. His health had been poor for several months
previous to his death.

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He was married in Buffalo on October 14, 1875, to
Louise, daughter of John and Ellen (Covert) Winne of
Albany, N. Y., who survives him with their three children :
Eleanor Winne, the wife of Joseph Winterbotham, Jr., of
Chicago, a non-graduate member of the Class of 1900 S.,
Gertrude Stuart, and Edward Buckingham (Ph.B. 1906).
He is survived also by a brother, Sherman Rogers Hall
(Ph.B. 1895). Four nephews are graduates of Yale: Wil-
liam C. Hall (B.A. 1904) ; George P. Putnam, Jr. (Ph.B.
1896) ; James O. Putnam (B.A. 1903), and Edward H.
Putnam (Ph.B. 1904).

Andrew Wheeler Phillips, Ph.B. 1873

Born March 14, 1844, in Griswold, Conn.
Died January 20, 191 5, in New Haven, Conn.

Andrew Wheeler Phillips, son of Dennison and Wealthy
Browning (Wheeler) Phillips, was born March 14, 1844,
in Griswold, Conn., where his father was engaged in farm-
ing. After attending school in his native town, his desire
to become a teacher led him to enter upon a course of teach-
ing in the public schools of Connecticut. During this period
he continued his studies, and after four years became an
instructor in mathematics at the Episcopal Academy at
Cheshire, where he taught from 1864 to 1875. Meantime,
by studying mathematics with Professor Hubert A. New-
ton at Yale, he obtained the degree of Ph.B. in 1873, and,
after a further course in mathematics, physics, and political
and social sciences, he received, in 1877, that of Doctor of
Philosophy. Two years before this the honorary degree
of M.A. had been conferred upon him by Trinity College.

He was called to Yale in 1877 as a tutor in mathematics,
and continued as a member of the Faculty of the College
for many years. In 1881 he received appointment as assist-
ant professor of mathematics, being raised to a full profes-
sorship ten years later. He became dean of the Graduate
School in 1895, and continued in that office until his resig-
nation in 191 1. For a long time he served as secretary of
the College Faculty. An important service which he ren-
dered to the University was as secretary of the Bicentennial
committee which raised the money to erect the group of

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buildings known as Woolsey, Memorial, and University
Halls.

Professor Phillips had served as a trustee of the Episco-
pal Academy of Cheshire (now known as the Cheshire
School), Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, and of
the Hotchkiss School at Lakeville, Conn., from its
foundation, being president of its board since 1900.

He was widely known for his contribution to the science
of mathematics; besides the many papers dealing with
higher mathematics and astronomy written for scientific and
educational journals, his published works include: "Tran-
scendental Curves'' (with Professor Newton) ; "The
Graphic Algebra," which he compiled in conjunction with
Professor William Beebe; "The Elements of Geometry,"
written in collaboration with Professor Irving Fisher, and
which has been translated into Japanese; "Trigonometry
and Tables," in conjunction with Dr. Wendell M. Strong
(B.A. 1893), and "The Orbit of Swift's Comet" (with
Professor Beebe). For a number of years he also edited the
Connecticut Almanac.

He was a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and a member of the American
Mathematical Society and the Connecticut Academy of
Arts and Sciences. He belonged to the Protestant Episco-
pal Church, and was a vestryman of St. Thomas' in New
Haven.

Professor Phillips died suddenly, from heart failure, at
his home in New Haven on January 20, 191 5. The funeral
services, which were largely attended, were held in St.
Thomas' Church. Interment was in Riverside Cemetery
at Waterbury, Conn.

His first wife was Maria Scoville, daughter of Rev. Peter
G. Clarke and Lucretia (Hitchcock) Clarke of Cheshire,
whom he married on April 23, 1867, in Augusta, Ga. Her
death occurred on February 22, 1896. His second marriage
took place in Waterbury on June 2J, 1912, to Mrs. Agnes
DuBois Northrop, daughter of Rufus Edward and Agnes
DuBois (Donnelly) Hitchcock of Waterbury. There were
no children by either marriage. Professor Phillips be-
queathed his entire estate, subject to certain life uses, to
Yale, the income to be used for the endowment and support
of a professorship in mathematics in the College, to be
called the Phillips Professorship of Mathematics.

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Eugene Ernest Osborn, Ph.B. 1874

Born May I, 1854, in Norwalk, Conn.
Died July 20, 1914, in Frederick, Md.

Eugene Ernest Osborn was born in Norwalk, Conn., on
May 1, 1854, the son of John Osborn, who was engaged in
school teaching during most of his life, and Lydia Ann
(Duncomb) Osborn, and was fitted for college at the Olm-
stead School in Wilton, Conn. He took the civil engineer-
ing course at Yale, where he played on the University
Baseball and Football teams. In Senior year he was
president of his Class.

In 1876 he received the degree of LL.B. from Columbian
(now George Washington) University, and from that
time until 1894 was engaged in the practice of law in Mar-
quette County, Mich. In 1891 he became connected with
the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, being made
general attorney for the state of Michigan, a position which
he held for several years. Mr. Osborn was appointed to
the position of general attorney for the entire system, with
headquarters in Chicago, in 1894. Seven years later he
was elected secretary and vice president in charge of finance
for that company, and was also made vice president and
assistant secretary of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis
& Omaha Railway Company, with headquarters in New
York City ; he held these positions until his retirement, on
account of ill health, in 191 1.

Since that time he had made his home in Frederick, Md.,
where he died on July 20, 19 14. His death was the result
of an operation. Burial was in Frederick.

He was married on August 2.7, 1879, in Washington,
D. C, to Ada Marinette, a daughter of Dr. Thomas Foster
Gibbs of Washington, D. C, a graduate of Georgetown
University with the degree of M.D. in 1870, and Sara
(Andrews) Gibbs. Mrs. Osborn survives him with three
of their children: Edith Montague, Eugene, and Ruth
Duncomb. Their oldest daughter, Ethel, died in 1893. The
son is a non-graduate member of the Class of 1910 S.

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William Henry Reynolds, Ph.B. 1874

Born October 23, 1853, in Springfield, Mass.
Died April 20, 1915, in New Haven, Conn.

William Henry Reynolds, son of Henry and Nancy Helen
(Wheeler) Reynolds, was born on October 23, 1853, in
Springfield, Mass., and studied in preparation for college
at French's Preparatory School and at Hopkins Grammar
School in New Haven, Conn. In the Scientific School he
took the course in civil engineering, and from graduation
until a year or so ago, he had served as Secretary of the
Class of 1874 S.

For over thirty-five years he was connected with Rey-
nolds & Company, manufacturers of bolts and screws in
New Haven, a concern of which his father was formerly
president, and at the time of his retirement about a year
ago he was its secretary and treasurer.

Mr. Reynolds died, after an illness of ten days due to
cerebral hemorrhage, at his home in New Haven on April
20, 1915. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven.

His marriage took place in that city, September 17, 1879,
to Ida May, daughter of Albert and Ann Eliza (Van-
Horn) Bradley. Mrs. Reynolds died on January 31, 19 10.
Their two children, — a son, Harry St. Clair, who gradu-
ated from the School of Medicine in 1910, and a daughter,
Marion Irene, the wife of David VerNooy Bennett (B.A.
1908), — are both living. Mr. Reynolds' brother, George
F. Reynolds, is a non-graduate member of the Class of
1877 s.

Frank Elwood Brown, Ph.B. 1876

Born August 23, 1856, in West Haven, Conn.
Died November 18, 1914, in Los Angeles, Calif.

Frank Elwood Brown, son of Reuben Quincy and Rebecca
(Wilmot) Brown, was born August 23, 1856, in West
Haven, Conn., where his father conducted a private school,
and where he received his early education. He took the
civil engineering course in the Scientific School, and con-
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March, 1877, when he went to California. For a few
months he taught school in that state, but he soon became
engaged in raising fruit, and, as a member of the Lugonia
Fruit Packing Company, was largely interested in preparing
and exporting dried fruit.

In addition to this business, he gave much of his atten-
tion to hydraulic engineering, especially to the project
of land-irrigation. In connection with Mr. Edward G.
Judson, his partner in the fruit company, he purchased
a tract of land in San Bernardino County, to which was
given the name of Redlands, and proceeded to irrigate it
and form a settlement. In the latter part of 1884 he com-
pleted a dam at the head of Bear Creek in that county,
converting the Bear Valley into an artificial lake, or storage
reservoir, and he later was engaged in the construction of
a system of canals in connection with this to supply water
to a large portion of Southern California. His classmate,
Walter C. Butler, was associated with him in this enterprise.
In 1890 Mr. Brown received the degree of C.E. from Yale,
having submitted a thesis on the "Bear Valley Reservoir
and its Arched-stone Dam." In 1887 he made a seven
months' trip around the world, via Japan, China, and South-
ern Europe, investigating the irrigation of the orange,
lemon, olive, and other products similar to those of South-
ern California; several later trips were made to complete
these investigations. He was for a number of years inter-
ested in the 8,000 acres of gold placers around Mount
Baldy on the large Maxwell Land Grant. At the time of
his death, he was engaged in developing the town of
Brownlands, six miles from San Jacinto, in Riverside
County, Calif.

Mr. Brown's death occurred, after an illness of about
two months, from Bright's disease, at his home in Los
Angeles on November 18, 19 14. The burial was at
Redlands.

He was married on December 30, 1877, to Jessie Fre-
mont, daughter of Cornelius Ray Smith, a book publisher
of New York, and Emeline (Rich) Smith. They had eight
children, — Emeline Rich ; Reuben Quincy ; Elwood Smith ;
Edward Judson ; Paul Winthrop ; Alessandra ; Olive Wil-
mot, and Geoffrey, — all of whom, with Mrs. Brown, sur-
vive. The eldest son graduated from the University of
Chicago with the degree of B.S. in 1909.

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Augustus James Emery, Ph.B. 1878

Born August 27, 1857, in Bangor, Maine
Died September 14, 1914, in Bangor, Maine

Augustus James Emery was born on August 27, 1857, in
Bangor, Maine, the son of Cyrus Emery, of the firm of
Emery & Stetson, importers of West Indian goods, by his
first wife, Elizabeth D. (Brown) Emery. He was a
descendant of Anthony Emery, who came from Romsey,
England, to Boston in 1635. His preparatory training was
received at the high school in his native town and at Camp's
Preparatory School in New Haven. He took the dynamical
engineering course in the Sheffield Scientific School.

In 1880, after two years of graduate work at Yale, he
received the degree of M.E., and immediately entered upon
the practice of his profession. From 1889 to 1896 he was
located in England, at that time being connected with the
Worthington Pumping Engine Company.

In 1900 he returned to Bangor, where he was living at
the time of his death, which occurred, from scirrhosis of the
liver, on September 14, 19 14.

Mr. Emery was married in 1882 in Brooklyn, N. Y., to
Annie, daughter of Samuel and Mary Louise (Pierce)
Quincy. He had three children : a son, Quincy Pierce, and
two daughters, Elsie and Gertrude Canterbury. One of
his brothers, Cyrus Emery, was a student at Yale from 1876
to 1879.

Adolph Frederic Wehner, Ph.B. 1880

Born March 26, 1859, in New Haven, Conn.
Died January 22, 191 5, in Newark, N. J.

Adolph Frederic Wehner was born on March 26, 1859, in
New Haven, Conn., and was prepared for college at the
Hopkins Grammar School in that place. His parents were
Robert Karl and Elizabeth Caroline (Feinthel) Wehner,
In the Sheffield Scientific School he took the course in
mechanical engineering.

For a short time after graduation he was in the employ
of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Com-
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steam engines for a year. Mr. Wehner became connected
with the Smith & Sayre Manufacturing Company in New-
ark, N. J., in 1882, and upon its reorganization eight years
later as the Isbell-Porter Company he was made treasurer.
Since 1894 he had held the position of secretary of the
concern. He was also treasurer of the Summit (N. J.)
Gas Light Company during its independent existence.

He died, from a complication of diseases, on January 22,
19 1 5, at his home in Newark. The burial was in Evergreen
Cemetery, New Haven.

Mr. Wehner was married in Somerville, Mass., on April
5, 1899, to Elizabeth A., daughter of August and Elizabeth
M. (Lehmann) Hamann of Somerville. Four children
were born to them: Karl Adolph; Robert Frederic (died
October 16, 1901); Elizabeth May, and Walter. Mrs.
Wehner survives him with two of the sons and the daughter.
A brother, Robert Karl Wehner, graduated from the
Sheffield Scientific School in 1891.

Davenport Galbraith, Ph.B. 1884

Born April 8, 1862, in Erie, Pa.
Died September 10, 1914, near Erie, Pa.

Davenport Galbraith, son of William Ayres Galbraith
(LL.B. Harvard 1845), a jurist of high reputation in Penn-
sylvania, and Fanny (Davenport) Galbraith, was born on
April 8, 1862, in Erie, Pa. He was a descendant of James
Galbraith, who settled at Donegal, in what is now Lancaster
County, Pa., in 171 2. Davenport Galbraith's grandfather,
John Galbraith, served as Congressman during 1832-38,
and was one of the foremost men in promoting the various
public enterprises that gave the first strong impulse to Erie
County.

After preparing for Yale at Phillips-Andover and the
Hopkins Grammar School, he entered the Sheffield Scientific
School with the Class of 1884, receiving a first prize for
excellence in English composition in Freshman year, when
he served as Class president. In Senior year he was a
Class statistician and an editor of the Record.

Upon graduation he entered the Pennsylvania Law
School, and after receiving his degree there in 1888, began

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the practice of law in his native town, being associated with
his father. He followed this profession for only a few
years, however, leaving it to take up banking. Mr. Gal-
braith had a leading part in the founding of the Dime
Savings & Trust Company of Erie, and later was respon-
sible for its reorganization as the Erie Trust Company.
Of this as well as of the former concern, he was vice
president for many years, and after the death of his father-
in-law, Jerome Francis Downing, in 19 13, succeeded him
as president. He had also had large real estate hold-
ings in Chicago, and was interested in the Kane Carbon
Black Company of Weston, W. Va., as well as in numerous
enterprises in Erie.

Mr. Galbraith died suddenly on September 10, 1904, at
his summer home near Erie, death resulting from compli-
cations following an attack of acute indigestion. Interment
was in Erie.

On June 18, 1885, he was married to Miss Winifred
Downing, who survives him. His brother, John William
Galbraith, graduated at Yale in the College Class of 1883,
and a nephew, William A. Galbraith, in the Class of 191 1 S.

James Henry Warner, Ph.B. 1884

Born November 14, 1861, in Steubenville, Ohio
Died January 9, 1914, in St. Louis, Mo.

James Henry Warner, son of James Harmon Warner,
whose home for many years was in Steubenville, Ohio,
where he was engaged as a cotton goods manufacturer, and
Elizabeth (Sutherland) Warner, was born in Steubenville
on November 14, 1861. His preparation for college was
received at the Steubenville High School, from which he
entered Marietta College, where he was for a time a member
of the Class of 1883. In 1881 he came to Yale, taking the
select course in the Sheffield Scientific School. He received
a second prize in English composition in Freshman year.

Most of his life since graduation had been passed in his
native town, although he had spent some time in Astoria,
N. Y., where he had relatives, and in Los Angeles, Calif.
He had never been engaged in any business. He was a

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member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was not
married.

Mr. Warner died by his own hand in St. Louis, Mo., on
January 9, 19 14.

Thomas Brodhead VanBuren, Ph.B. 1886

Born July 22, 1866, in Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y.
Died June 14, 1915, in New York City

Thomas Brodhead VanBuren, son of Thomas Brodhead
VanBuren, was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y., July
22, 1866. His mother was Harriet, daughter of Joseph Earl
Sheffield, who endowed the Sheffield Scientific School, and
who received an honorary M.A. from the University in
1871, and Maria (St.John) Sheffield, and sister of George
St. John Sheffield (B.A. 1863) and of Charles J. Sheffield
(Ph.B. 1867). His boyhood was passed with his parents
in Europe and the Orient, much of his time being spent in
Japan, as his father served as United States consul general
to that country from 1873 to 1883. He was fitted for the
Sheffield Scientific School, where he took the select course,
at the Peekskill (N. Y.) Military Academy. In Senior
year he sang on the University Glee Club.

After traveling abroad for a year, Mr. VanBuren became
American representative for large silk importing interests,
having his headquarters in Boston, Mass. In 1900 he
became connected with E. T. Mason & Company, silk
dealers of New York City, and later he was made Eastern
agent for that concern. For six years he was a member
of Company 10, Seventh Regiment, New York National
Guard. He belonged to All Angels' Church of New York
City.

Mr. VanBuren died, after an illness of a year due to
Bright's disease, at his home in New York City on June

He was married April 23, 1889, to Florence Trumbull
Lanman, who survives him with their two children: Vera
Lanman (Mrs. Harold C. Richard) and David Lanman.
His brother, the late Harold Sheffield VanBuren, grad-
uated from the College in 1878.

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Frederick William Spanutius, Ph.B. 1888

Born August 12, 1868, in New Haven, Conn.
Died June 20, 1915, in Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y.

Frederick William Spanutius, son of Christopher Spanu-
tius, who came to this country from Germany in 1848, and
Mary (Kuhner) Spanutius, was born on August 12, 1868,
in New Haven, Conn., where his father was engaged in busi-
ness as a confectioner. He was prepared for Yale at the
Hillhouse High School in that city, and took the chemistry
course in the Sheffield Scientific School.

He spent the first fifteen years following graduation in
teaching, — during 1888-89 as assistant in chemistry and
mineralogy at Pennsylvania State College; for the next
three years in similar work at the State University of Iowa,
and from 1892 until 1903 at Lehigh University, as chief
instructor, in charge of industrial chemistry, assaying, and
qualitative analysis.

He then became chemist for the Halsey Electric Genera-
tor Company, but after a year went to the Krebs Pigment
& Chemical Company, with which he was connected for the
next three years, after which he took a position as assistant
chief chemist at the DuPont Experiment Station of Wil-
mington, Del. He was later associated with Mr. Julien
Ortiz in the Ortiz Analytical and Testing Laboratory in
Wilmington. At the time of his death he held the position
of manager of the Pan Chemical Company, manufacturers
of cream of tartar, at Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y., for which
he had previously served as consulting chemist. Mr.
Spanutius had also at different times acted in a similar
capacity for the borough of Bethlehem, Pa., for the South
Bethlehem Gas & Water Company, and for illumination
tests for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company.

He had contributed somewhat to scientific journals, one
of his articles, written in conjunction with Launcelot
Andrews (Ph.B. 1875), being entitled "Rapid Determina-
tion of Sulphuric Acid." He was a member of the New
York branch of the American Chemical Society.

Mr. Spanutius died, from a complication of diseases, at
his home in Hastings-on-Hudson on June 20, 191 5. His
body was taken to Bethel, Pa., for burial.

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His marriage took place on April 8, 1897, in South Beth-
lehem, Pa., to Estelle Anna, daughter of Daniel W. and
Anna (Yochum) Ramsey. She survives him with their
five children: Frederick Christopher Webster, Edward
Ramsey, Winifred Lucy, Stanley Logan, and Marie Adele.

Frank Arthur Busse, Ph.B. 1889

Born September 7, 1867, in New Haven, Conn.
Died July 10, 1914, in New Haven, Conn.

Frank Arthur Busse, one of the five children of Franz
Theodore Busse, who was for a number of years engaged
as a contractor for manufacturing hardware, but who later
devoted himself to farming, and Johanna Antoinette (Brock-
sieper) Busse, was born on September 7, 1867, in New
Haven, Conn., where he was fitted for college at the Hill-
house High School. His mother died in 1888, and two
years later his father was married to Annie Mackinnon.
He took the dynamical engineering course in the Sheffield
Scientific School, and in Senior year divided the prize for
excellence in mechanical engineering.

After graduation he was first engaged as inspector of
guns and ammunition for the United States Government
in Hartford, Conn., for Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manu-
facturing Company and for the Pratt & Whitney Company.
The next five years (from 1892 to 1897) were spent in
Cramp's shipyard in Philadelphia, Pa., where he assisted
in the design and development of secondary battery guns
and ammunition for the Navy, and in the designing and
manufacturing of automatic machinery. He later returned
to Hartford, and entered the employ of the Electric Vehicle
Company, and then for eight years was engaged as a
mechanical engineer in charge of the manufacture of lino-
type composing machines in Brooklyn, N. Y., for the Mer-
genthaler Linotype Company.

In 1908 he removed to Idaho, where he became inter-
ested in the Settlers' Reclaiming & Operating Company,
which had about three thousand acres of land under cul-
tivation. Becoming vice president of the concern in October
of that year, he did much of the surveying, besides attend-

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ing to the mechanical end of the business. From 191 1 to
1913 he was a trustee of the town of Jerome, Idaho.

In September, 191 3, he suffered a stroke of paralysis, and
in June of the following year he returned to New Haven,
where he died on July 10, 1914, burial being in Evergreen
Cemetery, that city. The immediate cause of his death
was apoplexy.

Mr. Busse was twice married, his first wife being Emilie
Augusta, daugther of Hugo and Emilie (Neumann) Schnee-
loch, to whom he was married in New Haven on January
14, 1893. Her death occurred on June 22, 1906, and on
June 29, 1910, he was married in Belfast, Maine, to Maude
Evelyn, daughter of Alfred Ginn and Annie Maria (Wil-
son) Ellis. Mrs. Busse survives him with their daughter,
Frances Alfreda. Relatives of his who have attended Yale
include his uncle, Joseph Bradford Brocksieper (M.D.
1897), anQi three brothers-in-law: Dr. Leonard Woolsey
Bacon (B.A. 1888, M.D. 1892), Major Edward Lyman
Munson (B.A. 1890, M.D. 1892), and Ralph Hugo Schnee-
loch, a non-graduate member of the Class of 1901 in the
School of Medicine.

Henry Lord Wheeler, Ph.B. 1890

Born September 14, 1867, in Chicago, 111.
Died October 30, 1914, in New York City-
Henry Lord Wheeler was born on September 14, 1867,
in Chicago, 111., the son of George Henry Wheeler, a mer-
chant, and Alice I. (Lord) Wheeler, and was prepared for
college at the Harvard School in that city. He took the
chemistry course in the Scientific School, received a Senior
appointment, and served as a Class historian.

He continued his studies at Yale until 1893, when he
took his Ph.D., after which he studied for a year in Munich.
During 1894-95 he was at the University of Chicago, and
he then returned to Yale as assistant in organic chemistry.
Five years later he was made an instructor, in 1899 being
appointed assistant professor in the subject. He was
appointed to a full professorship in 1908, and continued at
Yale until his resignation in May, 191 1.

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He was widely known for his research work in chemistry,
and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences,
the American Chemical Society, the London Chemical
Society, the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft, and the Con-
necticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was a Fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science.

Mr. Wheeler died, from pneumonia, in New York City
on October 30, 1914. Burial was in Graceland Cemetery,
Chicago. By his will his entire chemical library was
bequeathed to the Sheffield Scientific School.

He was married on March 16, 1906, to Eva Swartout
of New York City, from whom he was divorced in 191 1.
They had one son, Henry Irving, who survives.

Henry Peter Coburn, Ph.B. 1895

Born July 1, 1874, in Indianapolis, Ind.
Died January 11, 1915, in Indianapolis, Ind.

Henry Peter Coburn was born in Indianapolis, Ind.,
July 1, 1874, his parents being Henry Coburn, president
of the Henry Coburn Storage & Warehouse Company, and
Mary Anne (Jones) Coburn. He was prepared for Yale
at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and took the select
course in the Scientific School, and served on the Class
Supper Committee.

For some time after leaving Yale he was connected with
his father's firm in Indianapolis as secretary, but in 19 10
lie removed to Oregon, where for three years he was
engaged in ranching at Hood River. At the time of his
death he was in business in his native city, to which he had
returned in 191 3.

On January 11, 191 5, Mr. Coburn died suddenly in
Indianapolis, his death being caused by heart disease, and
he was buried in that city.

His marriage took place on October 18, 1898, to Louise
M., daughter of D. P. and Annie (Seifert) Erwin, by
whom he had one son, Erwin, who survives. The latter is
now attending preparatory school in the East, with the
intention of entering Yale in the fall of 1919. Mr. Coburn's
two brothers are graduates of Yale, — William Henry, in the
Class of 1887 S., and Augustus, in the College Class of 1889.

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Wilbur Rogers Corbin, Ph.B. 1

Born January 17, 1875, in New Britain, Conn.
Died January 10, 1915, in San Diego, Calif.

Wilbur Rogers Corbin was born in New Britain, Conn.,
on January 17, 1875, tne son °^ Frank Eugene and Mary
(Whiting) Corbin, and a descendant of Thomas Lord,
an early settler in Hartford, Conn. He prepared for col-
lege at the Hillside High School in New Britain, and took
the mechanical engineering course in the Sheffield Scientific
School.

After graduation he spent eight years in the employ of
the P. & F. Corbin Company in New Britain, one year
with the Vulcan Manufacturing Company of Winsted,
Conn., and five years with the Corbin Cabinet Lock Com-
pany in New Britain. In September, 1910, he became
superintendent for Wyckoff, Church & Partridge, Inc.,
automobile manufacturers. A year later he secured a
patent covering a non-skid chain for motor trucks, and, in
company with two other men of the Wyckoff, Church &
Partridge Company, formed the Neverskid Company of
New York, for the manufacture of these chains.

In 1912 his health, which had been poor for some time,
became so impaired that specialists whom he consulted
found that he had been tubercular for ten years, and that
both lungs were affected. After a year in a sanitarium in
New Jersey his health improved somewhat, and he went to
California. He became so much better there that he pur-
chased a small stationery and book store in San Diego,
where he planned to settle with his family. He died sud-
denly, after an attack of heart failure, in that city on Jan-
uary 10, 191 5. Burial was in the Masonic lot in Evergreen
Cemetery at La Mesa, near San Diego.

He belonged to the Baptist Church. He had written a
number of articles on the mechanical points of hardware.

He was married on June 13, 1899, in New York City, to
Rebekah How, daughter of Gardner and Mary (Hamilton)
Morse of New Haven, Conn., who survives him with their
four children : Gardner Morse ; Dorothy Lord ; Elizabeth
Reed, and Mary Whiting. Mrs. Corbin studied at the Yale
School of Fine Arts during 1895-96. His parents, three
sisters, and a brother also survive Mr. Corbin.

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Charles Webster Danforth, Ph.B. 1896

Born August 12, 1874, in New Haven, Conn.
Died August 9, 1914, in New York City

Charles Webster Danforth, son of Charles Allen Dan-
forth, until his death in 1882 a civil engineer with the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, and
Anna Elizabeth (Sage) Danforth, was born in New Haven,
Conn., on August 12, 1874, and received his preparation for
college at the Hillhouse High School in that place. He
played on the Second Banjo Club in Junior and Senior
years at Yale, and took the civil engineering course.

Upon graduation he was employed as a draftsman in
the New York office of the Wrought Iron Bridge Company
until August, 1898. For several years afterwards he was
with this company at intervals, although at different times
he held positions with the W. H. Keepers Company at
Niagara Falls, and the Lidgerwood Manufacturing
Company in New York City.

He became interested in the New Jersey Bridge Com-
pany upon its formation in 1902, and had charge of the
New York office as contracting engineer until the failure of
the concern in 1908, except for a period of about nine
months in 1907, when he was engaged in the construction
of Vaughn's Bridge over Fore River, at Portland, Maine.
In 1909 Mr. Danforth took up the Eastern agency of the
Pittsburgh Bridge & Iron Works and the American Foun-
dry & Construction Company. For some time his home had
been in East Orange, N. J.

He died suddenly, from heart disease, in New York City
on August 9, 1914. Burial was in Rosedale Cemetery,
Orange.

On June 1, 1907, Mr. Danforth was married in East
Orange to Florence Agnes, daughter of Franz and Char-
lotte R. Miiller, who survives him. They had no children.

William Phillips Sage, Ph.B. 1898

Born June 6, 1875, in Hartford, Conn.
Died January 29, 1915, in Hartford, Conn.

William Phillips Sage, son of Edwin William and Clara
(Phillips) Sage, was born on June 6, 1875, in Hartford,

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Conn., where his father was engaged as a merchant, and
received his preparatory training at the high school in that
city. In the Scientific School he took the course in mechan-
ical engineering, and was a member of the Freshman Glee
Club.

Upon graduation he became connected with the Phoenix
Fire Insurance Company of Hartford as examiner, and had
continued with them ever since. In April, 1914, when the
Connecticut Fire Insurance Company was merged with
the first-named company, he became general agent for the
concern in the South, a position which he held at his death.

Mr. Sage died, from cerebral meningitis, at his home in
Hartford on January 29, 191 5, his death occurring after
an illness of only a few days. The burial was in Spring
Grove Cemetery, Hartford.

He is survived by his parents, a brother, and a sister.
He attended Park Congregational Church of Hartford.

Leon Lincoln Gay, Ph.B. 1901

Born May 29, 1879, at Barton Landing. Vt.
Died May 6, 1914, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Leon Lincoln Gay, son of Carlos E. Gay, a contractor
and builder, and Calista (Spofford) Gay was born at Bar-
ton Landing, Vt., on May 29, 1879, and received his pre-
paratory training at the St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Academy. He
took the sanitary engineering course in the Scientific School,
and in Senior year was a member of the Track Team.

Immediately after graduation he became an assistant
engineer on the construction of a power plant at Horse-
shoe Bend, on the Payette River in Idaho. In 1903, upon
the completion of his work, he entered the United States
Reclamation Service, and for a time was assistant engineer
on the construction of the Minidoka dam on Snake River.
Later he was engineer in charge of the construction of the
original Jackson Lake dam in Wyoming, following which
he was assistant engineer in immediate charge of the build-
ing of the Boise River dam near Boise, Idaho. In 1908 he
resigned from the Service, and became engineer for a large
irrigation enterprise in the Sacramento Valley in California.

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About a year later he contracted tuberculosis, and he had
spent his time since then in an endeavor to regain his
health. His efforts were unsuccessful, however, and his
death occurred, following an operation for an abscess of the
lungs, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 6, 19 14. The
burial was at Orleans, Vt.

He was an associate member of the American Society of
Civil Engineers. He was unmarried, and is survived by
his father and two sisters.

Louis Putnam Myers, Ph.B. 1901

Born July 14, 1879, in Yonkers, N. Y.
Died December 28, 1914, in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Louis Putnam Myers was born in Yonkers, N. Y., on
July 14, 1879, ^e son of Perit Coit and Lillian (Putnam)
Myers, being a descendant on the paternal side of General
Myers, of Revolutionary fame, and on the maternal of
General Israel Putnam. He was prepared at the high
school in his native town for the Sheffield Scientific School,
where he took the electrical course. At Yale he was a
member of the University Golf Team for two years, and in
Senior year served as vice president of the University Golf
Association and as a member of the Promenade Committee.

On leaving college he entered the employ of the Otis
Elevator Company, with which he remained for about six
years. Later he was secretary of the International Cotton
Mills Corporation, with office and home in New York, but
his gradually failing health finally necessitated the complete
abandonment of business, and his removal two years ago
to California, where it was hoped the warm climate and
out-of-door life would restore his strength. His death,
which was due to Bright's disease, occurred in Santa Bar-
bara, that state, on December 28, 19 14. The burial was
in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y.

On April 2J, 1907, he married in Yonkers, Irene, daughter
of Samuel and Minnie (Carl) Untermyer, who survives him
with a son, Louis Putnam, Jr. Mr. Myers was a brother
of P. Coit Myers, Jr., a non-graduate member of the Class
of 1905 S., and a nephew of Dr. T. Halsted Myers (B.A.
1881).

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Ralph Asher Pike, Ph.B. 1901

Born June 3, 1879, in East Woodstock, Conn.
Died May 13, 1915, in Pasadena, Calif.

Ralph Asher Pike was born on June 3, 1879, in East
Woodstock, Conn., the son of Charles Eldrich and Julia
(Wheelock) Pike. He was descended from Rev. Ralph
Wheelock, who, leaving England on account of religious
persecution, became one of the early settlers of Dedham,
Mass., where he devoted much of his attention to teaching.
Another ancestor was Eleazer Wheelock (B.A. 1733),
founder and first president of Dartmouth College.

He was prepared at Woodstock Academy for the Sheffield
Scientific School, where he took the course in sanitary engi-
neering. In Freshman year he received honorable mention
in mechanical drawing and in French; Junior year was
given honors in French, and upon graduation awarded
general two-year honors for excellence in all studies.

After taking his degree he entered the employ of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and, as a division engineer, was
located in several places in Pennsylvania. At one time he
was engaged in the construction of a three-arch stone bridge
at Union Furnace, Pa., across the Juniata River. In
June, 1903, he became a draftsman for the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, a position
which he held until April, 1905. He then took a position
as draftsman and assistant engineer for the New York Cen-
tral & Hudson River Railroad Company. Three years later
he became connected with the Public Service Commission
in New York City, continuing with them as a designer
until early in 191 1.

His home from 1905 to 191 1 was in Mount Vernon, N. Y.
He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engi-
neers. Since leaving college he had continued his studies,
particularly in mathematics.

Some years ago Mr. Pike developed tuberculosis, and
since 191 1 he had been compelled to give up all activities,
and had spent his time in various parts of the country in
an endeavor to regain his health. He had been at a sani-
tarium at Pasadena, Calif., since 1913, and died there on
May 13, 191 5. His body was cremated, and the ashes

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will eventually be buried in the Woodstock Center (Conn.)
Cemetery.

His marriage took place in Sharon, Conn., on June 28,
1904, to Alice L., daughter of Charles M. and Julia R.
Prindle, who survives him. They had no children.

Lindon Bates, Jr., Ph.B. 1902

Born July 17, 1883, in Portland, Ore.
Died May 7, 1915, at sea

Lindon [Wallace] Bates, Jr., was born in Portland, Ore.,
on July 17, 1883, the son of Lindon Wallace Bates, a non-
graduate member of the Class of 1879 S., whose work as
an engineer has won him great prominence, and Josephine
(White) Bates. His paternal grandparents were William
Wallace Bates, a naval architect, who served from 1889
until 1892 as United States commissioner of navigation, and
Marie (Cole) Bates. He was prepared for college in Eng-
land at the Harrow School, and he took the select course
in the Sheffield Scientific School. In Junior year he
received honors in history, and the next year was awarded
the second prize in political economy, and was given honors
in history and political science.

He returned to Yale in the fall of 1902, and continued his
studies in engineering during the following year. His
first professional work after completing his course was on
the New York Barge Canal, where he was engaged for
several years, and at Galveston, Texas, where, as secretary
of the United States Engineering Company, he had super-
vision over the grade raising which was to protect the city
from future floods. His business had later taken him to all
parts of the world, and he had spent much time in
Egypt, Russia, Holland, Spain, Italy, Greece, England,
Switzerland, and Panama, in engineering projects. At
the time of his death he was vice president of the
Bates Engineering Company of New York City, and also
consulting engineer for a number of concerns, including
the Western Engineering Corporation, the Denver Mining
Investment Company, the Laguintos Oil Company, the
Maikop Areas, and the Trinidad Cedros Oil Company.

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In 1909 he was appointed by Mayor McClellan a member
of the General Commission on Water Supply, to report on a
$25,000,000 water tunnel for Manhattan, and he later served
as a member of the National Conservation Congress. He
had written much on technical and economic subjects,
contributing numerous articles to scientific and other maga-
zines. Among the books of which he was the author were :
"The Political Horoscope," written in 1904 in collaboration
with Charles A. Moore, Jr. (B.A. 1903) ; "The Loss of
Water in New York's Distribution System" (1909) ; "The
Russian Road to China" (1910), and "The Path of the
Conquistadores" (1912). Since 1904 he had taken an
active part in politics and in 1908 he was elected to the
New York legislature, receiving reelection the following
year. His special attention during this period was given
to condemnation and Civil Service reform measures, and
to direct nomination and employers' liability bills. In
1912, and again in 1914, he was a candidate for Congress
from the seventeenth district, a Democratic stronghold,
where, though defeated, he ran far in advance of his ticket.
He was a member of the Western Society of Engineers,
the Societe Beige des Ingenieurs et des Industriels, and a
junior member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
He had been on several hunting and exploring expeditions,
and in 1908 took a midwinter sledge journey in Mongolia
and Siberia. From graduation until 19 13 he served as
Secretary of the Class of 1902 S.

Since the beginning of the European war Mr. Bates had
given very effective service to the work of the American
Commission for Relief in Belgium, of which his father is
vice chairman, particularly in the organization department.
He was a member of the executive committee of the Lon-
don board. His death occurred in the Lusitania disaster
of May 7, 191 5, when he was on his way to Belgium to
assist in organizing more effectively the work of the Com-
mission. He was a trustee of the Fifth Avenue Presby-
terian Church, and on June 10 a memorial service was held
in that church for him. He had not married, and besides
his parents, is survived by his brother, Lindell T. Bates
(Ph.B. 1910).

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Walter Ira Trench, Ph.B. 1902

Born September 6, 1879, in New York City
Died February 7, 191 5, in Baltimore, Md.

Walter Ira Trench was born in New York City on
September 6, 1879, ms parents being Ira James Trench, a
real estate dealer, and Charlotte (Totten) Trench. He was
fitted for Yale at the high school in Middletown, Conn., and
at the Hillhouse High School in New Haven. In the
Scientific School he took the course in civil engineering.

In July, 1902, he entered the employ of the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company, being placed in the
engineering corps of the Indiana division at Cincinnati.
After several promotions he became, early in 1908, division
engineer on the Ohio division of the road, with headquarters
at Chillicothe. Four years ago he was transferred to Balti-
more, Md., as division engineer, thus being placed in charge
of road and bridge construction and repair for one of the
most important sections of the road.

Mr. Trench was a member of the American Railway
Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association and the
Railway Signal Association, and belonged to the Walnut
Street Methodist Episcopal Church of Chillicothe.

He died at his home in Baltimore on February 7, 1915,
his death being caused by an attack of acute nephritis and
tonsilitis, resulting from exposure. Burial was in Fair
Haven Union Cemetery, New Haven.

His marriage took place in New Haven, Conn., on
September 20, 1906, to Florence Adelaide, daughter of
Marcius Edson and Jennie Elizabeth (Mansfield) Butter-
field, who survives him with their son, Robert. A brother,
Elmer Eugene Trench, graduated from Ohio Northern
University with the degree of E.E. in 191 1.

Edward Kazlitt Arvine, Ph.B. 1903

Born September 12, 1881, in New Haven, Conn.
Died November 26, 1914

Edward Kazlitt Arvine was born in New Haven, Conn.,
on September 12, 1881, his father being Earlliss Porter
Arvine (B.A. 1869, LL.B. 1871), an account of whose life

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appears elsewhere in this volume, and his mother, Alice Jane
(Strong) Arvine. In his first year in the Sheffield Scien-
tific School, for which he was fitted at Wesleyan Academy
in Middletown, Conn., and at the Hillhouse High School in
New Haven, he received honorable mention for excellence
in German.

He had taken the course in civil engineering, and for
several years after graduation he followed that line of
work, — at first (during 1903-04) with the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad; for the next year in the employ of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company,
and finally with the Southern New England Telephone
Company, with which he was connected until 1908.

In that year he entered the Yale School of Law, graduat-
ing in 191 1 with the degree of LL.B. He then became con-
nected with his father's law firm of Arvine, Beers &
Woodruff. His death occurred on November 26, 19 14.

He was unmarried, and is survived by his mother and
one brother, William Brown (B.A. 1903).

Herman Albert Hoster, Ph.B. 1903

Born July 12, 1881, in Columbus, Ohio
Died January 19, 1915, in Columbus, Ohio

Herman Albert Hoster, son of George J. and Mary
A. (Born) Hoster, was born in Columbus, Ohio, on July
12, 1881, and before coming to Yale studied at Ohio State
University for two years. He joined the Class of 1903 S.
in Junior year, taking the course in mechanical engineering.

After spending the summer of 1903 abroad, he returned
to his native town, and entered the employ of the L. Hoster
Brewing Company as assistant cashier, a short time after-
wards being made assistant treasurer. In January, 1905,
when that company and the other breweries in Columbus
were combined under the name of the Hoster-Columbus
Associated Breweries, he assumed the position of assistant
treasurer of the new concern.

A year later he became assistant general manager of the
Columbus Lithograph Company, later being made secretary
and treasurer. Through his efforts the Columbus Envelope
Company was organized, and he was active in the direction

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of its affairs until the sale of the business about three years
ago. From that time until his last illness he had devoted
his entire attention to the Columbus Lithograph Company,
of which he had become vice president and general manager.

Mr. Hoster had always taken a deep interest in charitable
organizations in Columbus, and was active in various move-
ments for the welfare of the community.

About a year ago his health failed, and since that time
he had sought to regain it at various health resorts, but
without success. His death, which was directly due to
heart failure, occurred on January 19, 191 5, in the Mount
Carmel Hospital in Columbus. Interment was in Green
Lawn Cemetery, that city.

He was married in St. Louis, Mo., on March 12, 1907, to
Martha Elise, daughter of Albert and Amelia (Boettler)
Welle. Mrs. Hoster survives him with their two children :
Elise and Herman Albert, Jr. He leaves also his father, a
sister, and three brothers: Carl Jacob Hoster, who was a
student at Cornell during 1891-94; Louis Philip Hoster, a
non-graduate member of the Class of 1899 at Williams Col-
lege, and Emil Walter Hoster.

Fred Merritt Harris, Ph.B. 1904

Born August 16, 1883, in Huron, S. Dak.
Died August 30, 1914, in Tabiche, Oaxaca, Mexico

Fred Merritt Harris, son of Edmund Coleman and Annie
R. (Mulholland) Harris, was born in Huron, S. Dak., on
August 16, 1883. He was prepared for college at St. Paul's
School in Concord, N. H., and at Yale he took the mining
engineering course, and played on the Class Hockey Team
in Freshman and Senior years.

From the September after graduation until January, 1907,
he was connected with the Homestake Mining Company at
Lead, S. Dak. Later he was engaged in mining in Nevada,
in the employ of the Northwestern and other mining com-
panies. The year of 191 1 he spent in South America,
inspecting mining properties for an English syndicate.

At the time of his death he held the position of manager
for the properties of the Compania Minera Yapoteca at

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Tabiche, Oaxaca, Mexico, where he died, from smallpox,
August 30, 1914.

Mr. Harris was unmarried, and is survived by his parents,
two sisters, and a brother.

Elbridge Blish Thompson, Ph.B. 1904

Born August 2, 1882, in Seymour, Ind.
Died May 7, 1915, at sea

Elbridge Blish Thompson was born in Seymour, Ind., on
August 2, 1882, the son of Elbridge Gerry and Emma
(Blish) Thompson. His parents' home at that time was in
Houston, Texas, and later in St. Louis, Mo., in both of
which places his father held important positions in railroad
management. The latter died in 1889, and soon after-
wards his mother returned to Seymour for permanent resi-
dence. He attended the public schools in that town, later
taking an academic course at the Lake Forest (111.)
Academy; his final preparation for Yale was received at
Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. He took the course
in metallurgy in the Sheffield Scientific School.

Following his graduation he spent one year in Colorado,
as metallurgist for a mine at Breckenridge. On the solici-
tations of his uncles engaged in the flour milling business
at Seymour, he returned to that place in 1905, and became
secretary for the Blish Milling Company. For the past
five years he had had complete charge of the sales depart-
ment of the company, and met with great success. Mr.
Thompson was a director of the Seymour Water Company,
and had served as chairman of the Republican town com-
mittee. He belonged to the First Presbyterian Church of
Seymour. He was a great reader, and his collection of
books, which he had amassed in recent years, evidenced the
wide and varied range of his interests. One subject — polar
exploration — was especially his hobby.

Early in May, 1915, Mr. Thompson left for Europe, his
trip being planned in the interest of his business. With his
wife, who was Maude, daughter of Frank A. and Ella
(West) Robinson, and to whom he was married in New
York City on March 31, 1904, he took passage on the
Lusitania; his life was lost in the disaster of May 7, while
Mrs. Thompson was rescued. They had no children.

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Wallace Fanshawe Disbrow, Ph.B. 1905

Born April 21. 1883, in Hornell, N. Y.
Died August 26, 1914, in New York City

Wallace Fanshawe Disbrow was born in Hornell, N. Y.,
on April 21, 1883, being the son of William Wallace Dis-
brow, who was connected with the clothing firm of Colyer
& Company, and Mary Augusta (Stelle) Disbrow. His
preparation for Yale was received at the Newark (N. J.)
High School, and he first entered the Scientific School in
1901, taking a special course the next year, and joining the
Class of 1905 S. in Junior year.

Since graduation he had followed the profession of a
mining engineer, at first being located in Southern Utah
with the Brigham-New Haven Gold & Copper Company.
In 1908 he became general manager of the Merry Christmas
zinc and lead mine near Mineral Point, Wis., and of the
Florence mine near the same town. These mines were
closed down in 1909, having been worked out, and Mr.
Disbrow then became manager of the Kennedy mine at
Hazel Green, Wis. In 1910 he became connected with the
American Zinc, Lead & Smelting Company of Boston, with
headquarters at Denver, Colo. Besides this connection he
had also been engaged in examining properties for other
companies.

He died suddenly, from peritonitis, following an attack
of appendicitis, in New York City on August 26, 1914.
Interment was in Evergreen Cemetery, Elizabeth, N. J.

Mr. Disbrow was married on July 14, 1906, in Salt Lake
City, Utah, to Isabel D., daughter of Alexander and Alice
(Hergenhother) Houston, formerly of Elizabeth, N. J.,
but now of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Disbrow survives him
without children. George Randolph Stelle (B.A. 1871) was
a cousin.

George Granville Lobdell, 3d, Ph.B. 1908

Born May I, 1887, in Wilmington, Del.
Died June 25, 1915, in Pittsburgh, Pa.

George Granville Lobdell, 3d, son of George Granville
Lobdell, Jr. (Ph.B. 1871), and Eva (Wollaston) Lobdell,

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was born in Wilmington, Del., May 1, 1887. His father is
president of the Lobdell Car Wheel Company of Wilming-
ton. Entering the Sheffield Scientific School from the
Friends' School in that city, where he had been prominent
in all forms of athletics, the son took the course in mining
engineering, played on the Freshman Football Team, and
served on the Senior Statistical Committee.

For a short time after graduation he was connected with
the Tennessee Coal & Iron Company. Returning to Wil-
mington, he became associated with the Lobdell Car Wheel
Company, being made secretary in the fall of 1914. He
severed his connection with that company in June, 19 15,
and on June 12 became superintendent of the /Etna Chemi-
cal Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., a subsidiary of the ^Etna
Explosives Company, the president of which was his father-
in-law. His death occurred in Pittsburgh on the evening
of June 25, 191 5, as the result of injuries received that
afternoon, while conducting an experiment under the Ritt-
man process at the plant of the ^Etna Chemical Company.
Burial was in Wilmington.

Mr. Lobdell was married July 24, 1912, in that city to
Evangeline Margaret, daughter of Arthur J. and Helen
(Coleman) Moxham, who survives him with their son,
George Granville, 4th.

Deane Mann Evans, Ph.B. 191 1

Born September 13, 1889, m Hazelwood, Pa.
Died May 15, 1914, in Los Angeles, Calif.

Deane Mann Evans was born in Hazelwood, Pa., on
September 13, 1889, the son of Cadwallader Evans, a gradu-
ate of Washington and Jefferson College in 1866 and of
Jefferson Medical College in 1868, who was for many years
engaged in practice in Hazelwood, and Margaret (Oliver)
Evans. Before coming to Yale he attended Shadyside
Academy and the Allegheny Preparatory School in Pitts-
burgh, Rollins College, and the Haverford School at Hav-
erford, Pa. He played on the Freshman Football Team,
and took the course in metallurgy.

Not long after graduation Mr. Evans went West, and he
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He held the position of vice president of the Valyermo
Ranch Company, serving as superintendent of the Valyermo
Ranch, and had also held an appointment as postmaster
of the town.

Mr. Evans' death occurred very suddenly, from menin-
gitis, in Los Angeles, Calif., on May 15, 1914. He was
buried in Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa. He was
unmarried. His brothers, Berne H. and Norman K-., gradu-
ated from the College in 1899 and 1914, respectively, and
numerous other relatives have attended Yale.

Webster Usner Killian, Ph.B. 191 1

Born January 18, 1890, in Reamstown, Pa.
Died November 16, 1914, in Reamstown, Pa.

Webster Usner Killian was born in Reamstown, Pa.,
on January 18, 1890, the son of Monroe Calvin Killian, a
cigar manufacturer, and Lizzie (Usner) Killian. He
attended the schools at Reamstown and the Ephrata High
School, graduated from Franklin and Marshall Academy
at Lancaster, Pa., in 1908, and then for a time studied at
Franklin and Marshall College, where he was a member
of the Class of 1912. He joined the Class of 191 1 S. at
Yale in Junior year, taking the chemistry course, and
receiving general two-year honors.

Soon after his graduation he entered the employ of the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Allentown, Pa., where he
remained for about a year. A severe illness caused him to
give up his work there, but after some months at home his
health improved. In May, 191 3, he removed to Shelton,
Conn., where he became connected with Sidney Blumenthal
& Company, soon being placed in charge of their laboratory.
On October 17, 1914, he was seized with hemorrhage of
the lungs. Two days later he took up his work again, but
only for a few hours, and after being removed to his
home in Pennsylvania, he lived but a few weeks, his death
occurring at Reamstown on the sixteenth of November.

Mr. Killian was unmarried, and is survived by his parents
and three sisters. He was a member of the Reformed
Church in his native town.

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George Baker Robbins, Jr., Ph.B. 1912

Born May 22, 1891, in Hinsdale, 111.
Died February 2, 1915, in Chicago, 111.

George Baker Robbins, Jr., was born in Hinsdale, 111.,
on May 22, 1891, his parents being George Baker and Min-
nie L. (Hinds) Robbins. His preparation for Yale was
received at the Northwestern Military Academy in Evan-
ston, 111., and at the Harvard School in Chicago, 111. He
was with the Class all three years, taking the select course.

Since graduation Mr. Robbins had been in the employ of
Armour & Company of Chicago, of which firm his father is
vice president.

His death occurred at his home in Chicago on February 2,
191 5. Four or five months earlier diabetes had developed,
but his condition had not been considered serious, and the
sudden relapse which resulted in his death was unexpected.
His body was taken to Hinsdale for burial.

On November 11, 19 14, he was married in Chicago to
Verne, daughter of William and Josephine (Bross) Wal-
lace of that city. Besides his wife, he is survived by his
father and two brothers.

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James Irving Manatt, Ph.D. 1873

Born February 17, 1845, in Millersburg, Ohio
Died February 13, 1915, in Providence, R. I.

James Irving Manatt was born in Millersburg, Ohio,
February 17, 1845, the son of Robert and Jemima (Gwin)
Manatt. His parents later removed to Brooklyn, Iowa,
where he received his early education. In 1864 he served
for three months in the Forty-sixth Iowa Infantry, and at
the close of the war went to Chicago, 111., where for a short
time he was on the staff of the Evening Post. In that
same year he entered Iowa College (now known as Grin-
nell), in 1869 receiving the degree of B.A. from that insti-
tution. He continued his studies there, while instructing in
Latin and Greek, and three years later took his Master's
degree. During 1872-73 he studied at Yale, being granted a
Ph.D. in 1873.

The next two years were spent as professor of Greek at
Denison University, Granville, Ohio, after which he devoted
some time to the study of Greek philosophy and history
at the University of Leipsic. On his return to this
country in 1877, he was appointed to the professorship of
Greek at Marietta College, a position which he held for
seven years, at the end of that period becoming chancellor
of the University of Nebraska. He held that office until
1889, and from that year until 1893 served as United States
consul at Athens. During this time he devoted his attention
to a great extent to study and research, and he had come
to be recognized as one of the foremost Greek scholars in
this country. Since 1893 he had been at the head of the
Greek department of Brown University.

For a number of years he served as managing commis-
sioner of the American School at Athens. In its interests
he had taken a number of trips abroad, and in 1905 he was
a delegate to the First International Congress of Archae-
ology at Athens. Professor Manatt had contributed many
articles on archaeological subjects to reviews and magazines.
In 1888 he edited Xenephon's "Hellenica" with a commen-

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tary, and in 1897, with Dr. Tsountas, wrote "The Myce-
naean Age." He published "i£gean Days" two years ago.
He was a member of various learned bodies, including the
American Philological Association, the American Social
Science Association, and the Society for the Promotion of
Hellenic Studies of London. He also belonged to Phi Beta
Kappa. In 1886 the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon
him by Grinnell College, and the University of Nebraska
honored him with the same degree in 1902.

Professor Manatt's death occurred at his home in Provi-
dence, R. I., on February 13, 1915. Although he had been
ill with pneumonia for about a week, his death was unex-
pected. Burial was in Swan Point Cemetery in Providence.
A service was held in his memory in Sayles Hall at Brown
University on the morning of February 17.

On June 28, 1870, he was married in Grinnell, Iowa, to
Arietta Winifred, daughter of Nathaniel and Catherine
(Park) Clark, who survives him. They had nine children:
Charles Scott (died at two years of age) ; Winifred (Mrs.
Herbert M. Bacon of Berkeley, Calif.), who received the
degree of B.A. at Brown in 1897 ; Lillian, who died at the
age of two years; Laura (died in infancy); William A.
Whitney; Sarah Imbrie (Mrs. William W. Cadbury), a
graduate of Brown with the degree of Ph.B. in 1901, who
died in Canton, China, on October 3, 1912; Helen (B.A.
Wellesley 1903), the wife of Mr. Arthur H. Bissell of Mont-
clair, N. J. ; Faith, and Evangeline Irving, a student at
Wellesley from 1907 to 1909.

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John Appleton, M.F. 1904

Born August 23, 1879, in Bangor, Maine
Died April 2, 1914, in Laurel, Md.

John Appleton, son of Frederick Hunt Appleton, who
received a B.A. at Bowdoin in 1864 and an LL.D. in 1908,
and Sarah E. (Dummer) Appleton, was born in Bangor,
Maine, on August 23, 1879, being the grandson of the late
Chief Justice John Appleton (B.A. Bowdoin 1822). His
father served at one time as city solicitor of Bangor, and
later held the office of county attorney. He received his
preparatory training in the schools of his native town and
at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., and was gradu-
ated in 1902 from Bowdoin College, where he was especially
prominent in undergraduate dramatic and musical interests,
serving as leader of the Glee Club and director of the
college minstrels.

After taking his degree from the Yale School of Forestry,
he entered the United States Forest Service, and for a time
was engaged in work in the Southern states. At the end
of two years he resigned his government position, and
returned to Bangor, where he commenced the practice of
his profession. He was for a time associated with Blaine
S. Viles (B.A. Bowdoin 1903, M.F. Yale 1904), under the
firm name of Appleton & Viles, and after the dissolution
of this concern, he formed a partnership with James W.
Sewall, a graduate of Bowdoin in 1906. The new firm con-
ducted a large business, at one time having a branch office
in New York City, and undertook many extensive contracts
for the restoration of shade trees and the reforesting of
barren tracts.

Early in 1913 illness compelled him to withdraw from
active business, and at that time he took a trip to Europe,
hoping that his health would be improved. His condition
had, however, gradually become worse, and he died, from
paresis, in Laurel, Md., April 2, 1914. He was buried in
his native town.

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Mr. Appleton was married in Kalamazoo, Mich., on
October 25, 1906, to Winifred, daughter of Frederick Mar-
vin and Edith (Gibson) Hodge, who survives him with
their daughter, Sarah. At one time Mr. Appleton served as
president of the Bangor Humane Society.

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YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Francis Manton Holly, M.D. 1855

Born March 28, 1833, in New York City
Died April 7, 1915, in Greenwich, Conn.

Francis Manton Holly, son of William Welles and Anne
(Glover) Holly, was born in New York City on March 28,
1833, and after receiving his preparatory training at Gen-
eral Russell's School in New Haven, spent three years in
the study of medicine at Yale, taking his degree in 1855
He also studied for a time at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons in New York.

During the Civil War he served as a surgeon, being sta-
tioned at a hospital in Washington, D. C, and in several
places in Virginia, where he gained a notable reputation.
At the close of hostilities he was retained by the govern-
ment, and after serving for a time in New Orleans, La.,
and in Austin, Belton, Hempstead, and San Antonio, Texas,
was transferred to Washington.

For nearly forty years Dr. Holly practiced his profession
in Greenwich, Conn., and he was the founder of the Green-
wich Medical Society, being its first president.

He died at his home in that town on April 7, 191 5, his
death resulting from an attack of pneumonia, contracted
five days before, shortly after his return from St. Peters-
burg, Fla., where he had spent the winter. Burial was in
Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich.

Dr. Holly married Miss Adelaide Willson of Greenwich,
who died in 1901. Four daughters survive him.

Henry Martin Rising, M.D. 1868

Born November 20, 1843, in Southwick, Mass.
Died May 19, 1915, in South Glastonbury, Conn.

Henry Martin Rising was born in Southwick, Mass., on
November 20, 1843, his parents being Abram and Hulda

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(Clarke) Rising. He received his early education in the
common schools of Massachusetts, and before entering
the Yale School of Medicine in 1866, spent some time
at the Normal School in Westfield, Mass. He was awarded
the Hooker prize in his Senior year at Yale.

After taking his degree in 1868, he commenced practice
in Salem, Conn., but in 1870 removed to South Glastonbury,
Conn., where he continued in his profession until his retire-
ment ten years ago, and where he died, after an illness of
several years due to arterial sclerosis and Bright's disease,
May 19, 191 5. Burial was in the Old Church Cemetery in
South Glastonbury.

He was married in Stonington, Conn., January 28, 1868,
to Sarah, daughter of Isaac S. and Phoebe P. (Hewitt)
Breed, who survives. They had three children: a son,
Harry Breed, a graduate of Yale with the degree of M.D.
in 1895 ; Emily Elizabeth, who died in 1905, and Mattie
Clada, whose death occurred four years after her sister's.

Dr. Rising was a member of the Connecticut Medical
Society and of the Congregational Church of South Glas-
tonbury.

William Howard, M.D. 1875

Born September 1, 1831, in Folkestone, Kent, England
Died April 1, 1915, in Hartford, Conn.

William Howard, one of the five children of William
Howard, was born September 1, 1831, in Folkestone, Kent,
England. Entering Yale in 1873 from North Guilford,
Conn., he received his medical degree two years later, but
had never practiced that profession.

For a long time he served in the Congregational ministry,
to which he was ordained in 1859. He died, from pneu-
monia and old age, on April 1, 191 5, in Hartford, Conn.
He was buried in West Avon, Conn.

Dr. Howard was married in Saybrook, Conn., on March
19, 1854, to Annie Avery, by whom he had three sons:
Edward (died March 2, 1878) ; William, who died in
infancy, and John, a graduate of Dartmouth with the degree
of M.D. in 1882.

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Charles Ross Jackson, M.D. 1888

Born January 17, 1867, in Nassau, West Indies
Died January 4, 1915, at Lake Placid, N. Y.

Charles Ross Jackson was born on January 17, 1867, in
Nassau, West Indies, where his father, Charles Jackson,
was at the time engaged as a marine insurance agent. His
earliest paternal ancestor in this country was Abraham
Jackson, who came over to Plymouth in the Anne, later
marrying a daughter of Nathaniel Morton. To this family
also belonged William T. G. Morton, whose discoveries
in regard to the use of ether as an anesthetic were so val-
uable. His mother was Emily Fowler, a daughter of
Andrew J. and Martha J. (Fowler) Ross. In 1880 he came
to New Haven, Conn., from Rio de Janeiro, where his
boyhood had been passed, and entered Hopkins Grammar
School. He began his medical studies at Yale five years
later, and in his Senior year was awarded the Keese prize.

After graduation he continued his studies for two years
in Vienna and Paris, specializing in diseases of the eye and
ear. Upon his return to this country, however, he decided
to enter the larger field of internal medicine, and for twelve
years served on the staff of the Polyclinic Hospital in New
York City. He was the founder and first president of the
West Side Clinical Society.

Poor health caused Dr. Jackson to seek an inland climate
six years ago, and he removed to Lake Placid, where he
soon built up a substantial practice. For a time he also
served as resident physician of the Lake Placid Club. He
was a member of the American Medical Association and
the New York State Medical Society. Dr. Jackson had
traveled extensively in this country.

He died, after a short illness, on January 4, 191 5, at Lake
Placid, his death being due to angina pectoris. Interment
was in Brooklyn, N. Y.

His marriage took place in Rochester, N. Y., on April
21, 1894, to Margaret, daughter of Benjamin Doyle, a
retired British army officer, and Marianne (Donnelly)
Doyle. They had no children. Dr. Jackson is survived by
his widow, his mother, and a sister.

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A number of his articles on diseases of the heart and
lungs appeared in medical journals. In his spare moments
during 1903 and 1906, Dr. Jackson wrote several detective
stories and short novels, including "Quintus Oakes," "The
Third Degree," 'The Sheriff of Wasco," and "Tucker
Dan." Mrs. Jackson has also figured in the literary world
as the author of several novels.

William Joseph Sheehan, M.D. 1895

Born November 6, 187 1, in Easthampton, Mass.
Died January 12, 1915, in New Haven, Conn.

William Joseph Sheehan was born in Easthampton, Mass.,
on November 6, 1871, the son of William Joseph Sheehan,
a merchant, who had served on the School Board of West
Haven, Conn., and Elizabeth (O'Donnell) Sheehan. He
received his early education in the preparatory department
of Manhattan College, and in 1892 was graduated with the
degree of B.S. from that institution. While at Yale he sang
on the Glee Club for three years, and was chairman of the
editorial board of the Yale Medical Journal.

After graduating from the School of Medicine he studied
at Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, and on the Continent for a
year and a half. Since his return to this country he had
practiced in New Haven, Conn., where he had become
known as one of the leading members of his profession.
Dr. Sheehan was one of the leaders in the organization
and establishment of the Hospital of St. Raphael in New
Haven, and had served as one of its attending surgeons.
In 1905, and again in 1908, he went abroad for special
study. He was a member of St. Mary's Roman Catholic
Church, and belonged to the State and County Medical
societies and to the surgical section of the American
Medical Society.

Dr. Sheehan died, after an illness of several weeks, at
the Hospital of St. Raphael in New Haven on January 12,
191 5. His death was due to septic pneumonia. Interment
was in St. Lawrence Cemetery, New Haven.

His marriage took place in West Haven, Conn., on June
30, 1913, to Lillian, daughter of James Fitzsimmons and

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Catherine Frances (Purcell) Molloy of West Haven, Conn
Mrs. Sheehan survives him with a son, William Joseph, Jr.
One brother, Edward A. Sheehan, graduated from Man-
hattan College in 1887, while the other, Frank William
Sheehan, took his B.A. at Yale in 1898 and his LL.B. in
1901. Edward P. O'Meara (LL.B. 1899) married one of
Dr. Sheehan's sisters.

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James Rice Brown, LL.B. 1853

Born August 18, 1827, in Pickens District, S. C.
Died March 2, 191 5, in Canton, Ga.

James Rice Brown was born in Pickens District, S. C,
on August 18, 1827, being the son of Mackey Brown, a
farmer, who had lived in Tennessee, South Carolina, and
Georgia, spending the latter years of his life in Cherokee
County, Ga., near Canton, and who had served as a justice
of the peace, and of Sally Rice Brown. His early education
was received at Williamston, in his native state, and before
coming to Yale he studied law in Canton, Ga., being
admitted to the bar in 1852. He was at Yale the following
year, and after taking his degree, returned to Canton, where
he began the practice of his profession, in which he
continued until about twelve years ago.

Not long after his return he entered politics, and in 1862
was elected to the State Senate of Georgia, where he also
served several terms a few years later. In 1877 he was
appointed a member of the convention which framed the
state constitution, and for eight years, beginning in Jan-
uary, 1881, he served as judge of the superior courts of
the Blue Ridge circuit. In 1892 he was a delegate to the
National Democratic Convention in Chicago.

Mr. Brown was a member of the First Baptist Church of
Canton, and acted several times as moderator of the local
Baptist Association. He served for six months during the
Civil War. His travels had covered nearly the whole of
the United States, Canada, and Cuba.

His death occurred, from infirmities incident to his years,
at his home in Canton on March 2, 191 5, burial being in the
local cemetery.

He was married in Bartow County, Ga., on July 3, 1856,
to Harriet F., daughter of John W. and Maria Lewis, who
died on October 12, 1889. On November 16, 1892, he was
married a second time in Canton to May R., daughter of
Zebulon and Mary (Reynolds) Walker of Newton County,
Ga., who survives him. He had five children, four by his

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first marriage and one by his second: John Washington
Lewis; George Rowland (B.A. University of Georgia
1881), who died on October 28, 1896; Joseph Emerson,
who took the degree of B.A. at Mercer University in 1885 ;
Sallie Rice, who died on March 25, 1888, and Frances May.
Mr. Brown's brother, the late Joseph Emerson Brown,
and his grandnephew, Thomas Whipple Connally, received
the degree of LL.B. at Yale in 1846 and 1905, respectively.

Nathan Thomas Fitch, LL.B. 1855

Born August 13, 1833, in Canboro, Ontario, Canada
Died July 16, 1914, in Salisbury, Md.

Nathan Thomas Fitch was born on August 13, 1833, in
Canboro, Haldimand County, Upper Canada (now
Ontario), being one of the seven children of William Fitch,
who was a magistrate and the postmaster of that town, and
Elizabeth Thomas (Moore) Fitch. On his father's side
he was a lineal descendant of Thomas Fitch (B.A. 1721),
one of the last English governors of New Haven Colony.
After attending several academies in New York State, he
entered the Yale School of Law, from which he was grad-
uated with the Class of 1855.

Returning to Canada, he served as clerk of the County
Court for Welland County, Ontario, deputy clerk of the
Crown for the same county, and a commissioner in Queen's
bench from May, 1856, until his removal to Chicago, 111.,
in 1862. After his admission to the bar, he practiced in
that city for some years, part of the time alone, part as a
member of the firm of Buell & Fitch, in which his partner
was Mr. Ira W. Buell. In the fall of 1884, his health
failing, he went to New Orleans, La., and from there to
Salisbury, Md., where, for a time, he was engaged in the
manufacturing business. In March, 1898, he resumed the
practice of his profession in that place, in partnership with
Mr. Robert P. Graham, then state comptroller for Mary-
land. Since Mr. Graham's removal to Baltimore in 1902
he had continued the practice alone.

He was one of the organizers of the Farmers & Mer-
chants Bank, the Camden Sewer Company, and the Camden
Realty Company, all of Salisbury, and had been active in

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various movements for civic improvement. He was the
author of "Fitch on Real Estate Agency," published in
Chicago in 1881.

Mr. Fitch died, from old age, at Salisbury, July 16,
19 14, after an illness of several weeks, and was buried in
Parsons Cemetery in that town.

He was twice married, his first wife being Katherine,
daughter of Sullivan Caverno (B.A. Dartmouth 1831), to
whom he was married in Lockport, N. Y., in 1857, and who
died in 1869. His second marriage took place in Volga
City, Iowa, on November 1, 1872, to Abbie M., daughter
of A. J. Blackman, who survives him with their two chil-
dren : Harold Nathan and Mabel Frances. He leaves also
a daughter by his first marriage, Martha (Mrs. Frederick
Barlow of Rockville Center, N. Y.).

Samuel Henry Or wig, LL.B. 1857

Born August 18, 1836, in Mifflinburg, Pa.
Died October 9, 1914, in Bellefonte, Pa.

Samuel Henry Orwig, son of Samuel and Mary (Meyer)
Orwig, was born on August 18, 1836, in Mifflinburg, Pa.,
and received his education in the public schools and the
academy in his native town, and at the university at Lewis-
burg, Pa., now known as Bucknell University. He gave
up his course there at the end of his Junior year, and
taught for a year in the academy at Hollidaysburg, Pa.
At this time he also studied law, continuing his studies
under the tuition of Mr. William D. Kelley of Philadel-
phia until 1855, when he entered the Yale School of Law.

After graduation he first practiced at Lewisburg, where
for several years he also edited the Union County Star and
the Home Gazette. The degree of M.A. was conferred
upon him by Bucknell University in 1862. He enlisted in
1863, and served for a while as a private in the Twenty-
eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers. In the same year he was
elected a representative to the state legislature, being
reelected in 1864, and during his terms he served on several
committees. He then declined reelection in order to give
his undivided attention to his law practice, which soon
became very large. In 1902 he removed to Harrisburg,

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but since that time he had not practiced to any great extent,
owing to the condition of his health.

Mr. Orwig's death occurred, from infirmities incident
to his advanced age, in Bellefonte, Pa., on October 9, 1914.
Burial was in Mifflinburg.

He was married on May 28, 1878, in that town to Mar-
garet B., daughter of John and Ellen Mary Hayes of
Mifflinburg. They had no children. He was a member
of the Presbyterian Church.

Frederick William Babcock, LL.B. 1873

Born May 14, 1853, in New Haven, Conn.
Died May 1, 1915, in New Haven, Conn.

Frederick William Babcock was born in New Haven,
Conn., on May 14, 1853, being one of the seven children of
James Fairchild and Catherine Ann (Mills) Babcock. His
father, the son of William Avery and Abigail (Cook) Bab-
cock, and grandson of Dr. Christopher Avery Babcock, who
was President Washington's private surgeon, was editor,
owner, and publisher of the New Haven Daily Palladium
from 1830 to 1861, collector of the port from 1861 to 1869,
and served in both the Connecticut Senate and House of
Representatives, and as judge of the New Haven City Court.
His mother, who was the daughter of Captain Frederick
Mills, a native of Stockholm, Sweden, by his wife, Susan
Grant (Davis) Mills, was a sister of Frederick Davis Mills,
a graduate of the College in 1836, who lost his life in the
Mexican War. He received his preparatory training at
General Russell's School in New Haven, entering the
School of Law in 1871.

He had been for a number of years engaged in the prac-
tice of law in New Haven, in late years making his home in
East Haven, Conn. He was a member of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, and in 1880 served as a vestryman and
superintendent of the Sunday school of Grace Church, New
Haven.

Mr. Babcock died, after an illness of several months, due
to general debility, in the New Haven Hospital, May 1,
191 5, interment being in Fair Haven Cemetery.

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His marriage took place in New Haven on August 3,
1875, to Amy Eliza, daughter of Hannibal and Kezia
(Price) Preston of Cazenovia, N. Y. Mrs. Babcock
survives him without children.

Russell Wolcott Livermore, LL.B. 1875

Born February 9, 1849, in Mansfield, Conn.
Died April 21, 1914, in Pates, N. C.

Russell Wolcott Livermore was born on February 9,
1849, m Mansfield, Conn., the son of Rev. Aaron Russell
Livermore, a Congregational minister, and Mary Gay
(Skinner) Livermore. His father studied at Amherst dur-
ing 1833-36, attended Lane Theological Seminary in
1837, and was graduated from the East Windsor Hill
(Conn.) Theological School (now the Hartford Theological
Seminary) in 1839. He was a direct descendant of John
Livermore, one of the first proprietors in Watertown,
Mass., and Wethersfield, Conn., who came from Ipswich,
England, in 1634, and who was one of the original party
who removed from Wethersfield in 1639 to the new settle-
ment of Quinnipiac. His mother, of an old Connecticut
family, was the daughter of Rev. Newton Skinner (B.A.
1804), a sister of Samuel Wolcott Skinner (B.A. 1842,
M.D. 1846), and a great-granddaughter of Judge Erastus
Wolcott, who received the honorary degree of M.A. from
Yale in 1790. Russell Livermore was prepared in the
schools of Lebanon, Conn., for the Massachusetts Agricul-
tural College, where he was class orator at his graduation
in 1872, when he received the degree of B.S. He entered
the Yale School of Law in 1873, and was graduated two
years later. He was one of the Townsend prize speakers.

After graduation he practiced law for a year or two in
New Haven, and then removed to Toledo, Ohio, where he
was engaged in the practice of his profession for six years.
He then went to North Carolina to give professional assist-
ance to his wife's brother, who had considerable property
interests there. As a result he settled at Pates, and spent
the rest of his life as a resident at either Pates or Red
Springs, in Robeson County. He became a cotton planter,

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merchant, and, for a time, an extensive dealer in turpentine
and naval supplies.

Mr. Livermore died, from heart trouble, at his home in
Pates on April 21, 1914. The burial was at Red Springs.

His marriage took place in Toledo on May 5, 1880, to
Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Henry Jerome Hayes, a
commission merchant of Toledo, by his second wife, Maria
Emily (Taylor) Hayes. Mrs. Livermore died about six
years ago. They had three children: Mary Hoyland (B.A.
Adelphi College 1905), Henry Wolcott, and Russell Hayes.
His brother, Charles Herbert Levermore, took his B.A. at
Yale in 1879. George Kirchwey Levermore, who grad-
uated from the College in 1914, is a nephew.

John Alden Stoughton, LL.B. 1882

Born June .28, 1848, in East Windsor, Conn.
Died March 14, 1915, in East Hartford, Conn.

John Alden Stoughton was the son of John Wetmore
Stoughton, a non-graduate member of the Class of 1840
at Yale, who served for many years as a member of the
Connecticut State Senate, and Mary (Ellsworth) Stough-
ton, and was born in East Windsor, Conn., on June 28,
1848. He was descended from John Stoughton (B.A.
1755) and from Colonel Lemuel Stoughton, who fought in
the Revolutionary War, and, on his mother's side, from
Captain John Ellsworth and Martha (Edwards) Ellsworth,
the latter a sister of Jonathan Edwards (B.A. 1720). He
was also a lineal descendant of John Alden. He received
his preparatory training at the Delaware Literary Insti-
tute in Franklin, N. Y., and at the Monson (Mass.)
Academy ; before coming to Yale, where he spent the year
1881-82, he was for two years in the law office of George
G. Sill (B.A. 1852).

Since his admission to the bar shortly after his gradua-
tion from the School of Law, he had been engaged in the
practice of his profession in Hartford, Conn. He had lived
in East Hartford since 1885, and had always taken a lead-
ing part in the affairs of the town; he was first judge of
the Probate Court of the East Hartford district, and from

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1898 until June, 1905, he served as judge of the Town
Court, for which he had also acted as prosecuting attorney.

Mr. Stoughton had written a number of papers on old
English common law, on which subject he was considered
an authority, and was the author of "Windsor Farms" (a
history of the parish of East Windsor from 1703 to 1757)
and of a small volume, entitled "A Corner Stone of
Colonial Commerce," dealing with the culture of tobacco.
He was an ardent advocate of the contention that John
Fitch and not Robert Fulton was the inventor of the steam-
boat. His research along this line brought him into con-
siderable prominence, and on February 22, 191 2, he
delivered an address before the United States Navy League
at Washington, D. C, in support of this contention. His
travels in this country had been extensive. He had a cot-
tage at Lake George, and in the summer spent much time
there. He was a member of the Fourth Congregational
Church of Hartford and of the Connecticut Historical
Society. For many years he was a prosecuting agent for
the Connecticut Humane Society.

Mr. Stoughton's death occurred, after a prolonged ill-
ness from heart trouble, at his home on March 14, 191 5.
Burial was in the South Windsor Cemetery.

On July 19, 1876, he was married in South Windsor,
Conn., to Mrs. Ellen (Pinney) Goodwin, daughter of
Ebenezer Pinney, and widow of Henry Goodwin. Three
daughters were born to them: Ellen Katherine (Mrs.
Harry Farnham of South Windsor), Mary Theodosia
(Mrs. Frederick Olmstead of East Hartford), and Elizabeth
Alden. The latter received the degree of B.A. at Cornell
University in 1906.

Arthur Mortimer Taft, LL.B. 1882

Born January 28, 1854, in Uxbridge, Mass.
Died February 25, 1915, in Worcester, Mass.

Arthur Mortimer Taft was born in Uxbridge, Mass., on
January 28, 1854, the son of Bridgham Alexander Taft,
a physician. His mother was Ann Eliza, daughter of
George Whitney. He was educated in the public schools of

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Douglas, Mass., and before coming to Yale was employed
in various capacities in Worcester. He spent two years
in the study of law at Yale, being graduated with honors.

Since 1882 he had been engaged in the practice of his
profession in Worcester, Mass. He had been at different
times connected with several corporations as a director or
officer, among them the Quinsigamond Steamboat Company,
the A. A. Coburn Company, the Pike Manufacturing
Company, and the Rutland Marble Company.

From 1 90 1 to 1905 inclusive he was a member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives, and during
1906-07 he served as a state senator. During this time he
was a member of several important committees, including
the one appointed to revise the public statutes of Massa-
chusetts and prepare the present revised laws of the State.
He had served as majority leader of both the House and
the Senate.

He was a member of the Union Congregational Church
of Worcester, and belonged to the Worcester Board of
Trade.

Mr. Taft's death occurred, as the result of cerebral
hemorrhage, at his home in Worcester on February 25,
191 5. He was buried in Hope Cemetery in that city.

He was married in Worcester, March 2, 1908, to Olive
Georgia, daughter of Elmer and Georgie Cornelia (Myers)
Hewitt of Worcester. She died on June 8 of that year,
and on January 22y 191 3, his marriage to Alice Webb,
daughter of William and Agnes Young (Weir) Anderson,
took place in Worcester. Mrs. Taft survives him. There
were no children by either marriage.

Stiles Judson, LL.B. 1885

Born February 13, 1862, in Stratford, Conn.
Died October 25, 1914 in Stamford, Conn.

Stiles Judson was born on February 13, 1862, in Strat-
ford, Conn., the son of Stiles Judson, a farmer of that
town, who had held various town offices, and who served in
the Connecticut Assembly in 1880 and 1884. He was a
lineal descendant of William Judson, who came from York-

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shire, England, to Concord, Mass., in 1634, and who, four
years later, became the first settler of the town of Stratford.
His mother was Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and
Eliza (Booth) Peck. After receiving his preparatory train-
ing at the Sedgwick School in Stratford, he entered the
Yale School of Law in 1883, taking his LL.B. magna cum
laude two years later.

He was admitted to the bar soon afterwards, and at
once entered the law office of Townsend & Watrous in
New Haven, where he remained until September, 1886, at
the same time taking graduate work in the School of Law.
He then began the practice of his profession in Bridgeport,
Conn., becoming a member of the firm of Canfield & Jud-
son, which a number of years later became Canfield, Judson
& Pullman.

In politics he was a Republican, and in 1891 and 1895
he was representative from Stratford, where he made his
home, to the Connecticut General Assembly. He was a
state senator in 1905, 1907, and 191 1, serving as president
pro tern, of the Senate the session of 1907, and he had
acted on the judiciary committee of both the Assembly and
the Senate. For several years he was state's attorney for
Fairfield County, giving up that office in March, 1914.

He was a member of Company K, Fourth Regiment,
Connecticut National Guard, from 1880 to 1891, and at the
time he left the militia was captain of the company. He
belonged to the Stratford Congregational Church.

About a year before his death, Mr. Judson suffered a
general breakdown in his health, and he died October 25,
19 14, at a sanitarium in Stamford, Conn., where he had
been undergoing treatment for several months. Heart
trouble combined with a nervous disorder was the cause of
his death. Interment was in Union Cemetery in his native
town.

His marriage took place in Milford, Conn., on December
5, 1889, to Minnie Lee, daughter of George Wellington and
Mary (Lee) Miles, and a sister of George W. Miles (Ph.B.
1889). Mrs. Judson, who attended the Yale School of the
Fine Arts for several years, survives her husband. They
had no children. George W. Judson (B.A. 1884, B.D.
1887) is a first cousin of Mr. Judson, and a number of
other relatives have attended Yale.

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George Washington Robinson, LL.B. 1888

Bom April 23, 1865, in New London, Conn.
Died November 8, 1914, in Hartford, Conn.

George Washington Robinson was born on April 23,
1865, in New London, Conn., the son of William Callyhan
Robinson, LL.D. (B.A. Dartmouth 1854), who received
the honorary degree of M.A. at Yale in 1881, at which time
he held a professorship of law at the University, and who,
at the time of his death on November 7, 191 1, was dean of
the Law School of the Catholic University of America at
Washington, D. C. His mother was Anna Elizabeth,
daughter of Henry H. and Mary (Juteau) Haviland.

Since his graduation from the Yale School of Law Mr.
Robinson's home had been in New Haven, where he was
engaged in the practice of his profession for some years.
During 1892-95 he was secretary to the United States com-
missioner of patents, and for the year 1898-99 he served as
assistant corporation counsel for the city of New Haven.
He had been Secretary of his Class since graduation.

Mr. Robinson died, from pulmonary tuberculosis, in
Hartford, Conn., on November 8, 1914. His body was taken
to Norwich, Conn., for burial.

He was married on August 26, 1889, to Martha Trask,
daughter of George Alexander and Martha Ann (Trask)
Leland. Three sons were born to them : Leland Haviland,
George Washington, Jr., and Bradford, all of whom, with
Mrs. Robinson, survive him. He leaves also two brothers :
Philip N. Robinson (LL.B. 1886), and Dr. Paul S. Robin-
son (Ph.B. 1889, M.D. 1891). A nephew, Elliot Stirling
Andrew Robinson, is a member of the Class of 1916 in the
College.

Charles Herbert Mathews, LL.B. 1893

Born August 29, 187 1, in South Hadley Falls, Mass.
Died November 14, 1914, in Los Angeles, Calif.

Charles Herbert Mathews, son of John L. and Henrietta
Clara (Douglass) Mathews, was born in South Hadley
Falls, Mass., on August 29, 1871. His father was for many

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years engaged in the wholesale paper business in New-
Haven, Conn., where the son received his preparatory
training at the Hopkins Grammar School.

He entered the Yale School of Law in 1891, and for a
while after graduation followed his profession in New
Haven. For some years previous to his death he had
been engaged in the lumber business in California and
Washington.

He served in the Spanish War, and for two years was
a member of Company G, Two Hundred and First New
York Volunteers.

Mr. Mathews died on November 14, 19 14, in Los Angeles,
Calif. His death was due to acute arthritis. The burial
was in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven.

He was unmarried. A brother, Harry Willard Mathews,
graduated from Yale in the Class of 1896, and a cousin,
George Perkins Douglas, with the Class of 1889.

Albert Alfonzo Moore, Jr., LL.B. 1894

Born August 16, 1872, in Oakland, Calif.
Died June 19, 1914, near Califa, Calif.

Albert Alfonzo Moore, Jr., son of Albert Alfonzo Moore,
an attorney for several railroad companies, was born in
Oakland, Calif., on August 16, 1872. His father at one
time served as district attorney for Alameda County, Calif.
He entered the Yale School of Law in 1892, receiving his
LL.B. two years later.

After graduation he returned to his home town, where
he was admitted to practice. He later removed to San
Francisco, and for a time practiced there, but at the time of
his death he was not actively engaged in his profession.
For a while he served as assistant attorney general for
the state of California.

On June 19, 1914, Mr. Moore was instantly killed
beneath his overturned automobile, which had plunged
through a fire-torn bridge near Califa, Calif. His home
had for some time been in Piedmont, that state, and the
burial was in that place. Besides his wife, Florence
(Blythe) Moore, who is the daughter of the late Thomas
Blythe, he is survived by his parents, a brother, and four
sisters.

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George Robert Burnes, LL.B. 1904

Born March 12, 1879, in Bridgeport, Conn.
Died September 7, 1914, in Norwalk, Conn.

George Robert Burnes was born on March 12, 1879,
in Bridgeport, Conn., the son of James H. Burnes and
Mary (Bicklehaupt) Burnes, and entered Yale in the fall
of 1901 with the Class of 1904 Law.

Following his graduation he was chosen clerk of the City
Court of Bridgeport, a position which he held until 19 13,
when he was compelled to relinquish it because of failing
health due to a mental breakdown. From 1907 to 19 13 he
also held office as secretary and treasurer of the Bridgeport
Business Men's Association. The last year of his life was
spent in efforts to regain his health, but without success,
and he died in Norwalk, Conn., on September 7, 1914.

His marriage took place on September 2, 1908, to Muriel
Maclean of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Mrs. Burnes
survives him without children.

Charles Edward Bittenger, LL.B. 191 1

Born April 20, 1888, in York, Pa.
Died August 26, 1914, in York, Pa.

Charles Edward Bittenger, son of John Wierman Bitten-
ger, an attorney-at-law and judge of the Court of Common
Pleas of York County, who attended Pennsylvania College
during 1854-55, and later the Harvard Law School, from
which he received the degree of LL.B. in 1857, and Anna
(Birnnsman) Bittenger, was born in York, Pa., on April 20,
1888. He received his early education at the York County
and Mercersburg academies, entering the Yale School of
Law in 1908. While in New Haven he was admitted to the
bar.

After completing his law course he returned to his home
in York, took the state bar examinations, and was admitted
as a member of the Pennsylvania Bar on January 30, 1912.
He then became associated with his father in the practice
of law under the firm name of Bittenger & Bittenger, and
continued in this connection until his death, which occurred

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after only a week's illness, from diphtheria and a compli-
cation of diseases, at his home in York on August 26, 1914,
burial being in that city.

Mr. Bittenger was unmarried, and besides his parents, is
survived by one brother and three sisters. He was a
member of Trinity First Reformed Church of York.

Fred Masters Lyon, LL.B. 191 1

Born February 8, 1886, in Hillsdale, Kans.
Died June 4, 1914, in Paola, Kans.

Fred Masters Lyon was born in Hillsdale, Kans., on Feb-
ruary 8, 1886, being the only child of William H. and Mary
J. (Masters) Lyon, and after graduating from the high
school in Paola, Kans., to which place his family had
removed in 1906, he entered the University of Kansas. He
received the degree of B.A. from that institution in 1909,
and then came to Yale, entering the Second Year Class in
the School of Law.

Upon graduation he returned to Kansas, and in February,
19 1 2, was admitted to the bar in that state. For a time
thereafter he was associated with his father in the real
estate and loan business in Paola. Later he became con-
nected with the Cornbelt Mortgage Company of Kansas
City, Mo., remaining with that concern until February, 1914,
when illness compelled him to give up his work. His death
occurred, from tubercular meningitis, on June 4, 19 14, in
Paola, burial being in Elmwood Cemetery in that town.

He was unmarried, and is survived by his parents. He
belonged to the First Christian Church of Paola.

Frederick Whitmore Smith, LL.B. 1913

Born July 22, 1889, in Tariffville, Conn.
Died October 10, 1914, in Hartford, Conn.

Frederick Whitmore Smith was born on July 22, 1889,
in Tariffville, Conn., being the son of Charles Frederick
and Elizabeth Esther (Whitmore) Smith, and a direct
descendant on the paternal side of Captain Joseph Jewett,

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a member of Huntington Regiment in the Revolutionary
War. He graduated from the high school in New Britain,
Conn., before coming to the Yale School of Law.

He lost his health as the result of a too close application
to his work as a law student, being taken ill at the very
end of his Senior year, and although his final examinations
were uncompleted, his degree was granted to him by the
University. His one opportunity to exercise his chosen
profession was to write the will of a dying man in order
that the widow might be assured of receiving his estate.
He was a member of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
of Hartford, Conn.

Mr. Smith died, after a lingering illness, in that city on
October 10, 1914. The burial was in the family plot in
Granby, Conn. He was unmarried, and is survived by his
parents, a sister, and a brother.

BACHELOR OF CIVIL LAW

Forrest LeBert Forbes, B.C.L. 1908

Born February 24, 1884, in Westboro, Mass.
Died April 6, 1915, in. Hartford, Conn.

Forrest LeBert Forbes was the son of Forrest W. Forbes,
a carriage and sleigh manufacturer, and Etta (Lovelace)
Forbes, and was born in Westboro, Mass., on February 24,
1884. After receiving his preparatory training at Phillips-
Andover, he studied at Cornell University for a time, but
in January, 1906, he entered the Yale School of Law, from
which he received the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law in
1908. At Yale he went out for basketball, and was a mem-
ber of the Banjo and Mandolin Club in his first year.

For a short time after graduation, he practiced law in
New Haven, but in 1909 he entered the legal department of
the liability division of the Travelers Insurance Company
in Hartford, Conn., where he was employed until his last
illness.

His death occurred, following an attack of pleurisy, at
the Hartford Hospital on April 6, 191 5. Interment was in
the family lot in the Westboro Cemetery.

He was not married, and is survived by his mother.

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MASTER OF LAWS

Proceso Gonzales Sanchez, M.L. 1909

Born July 4, 1885, in Bacolor, Pampanga, Philippine Islands
Died June 5, 1915

It has been impossible to secure the desired information
for an obituary sketch of Mr. Sanchez in time for publi-
cation in this volume. A sketch will appear in a subsequent
issue of the Obituary Record.

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YALE SCHOOL OF RELIGION
George Parsons Gilman, B.D. 1872

Born November 17, 1844, in Boston, Mass.
Died May 3, 191 4, in Wolfeboro, N. H.

George [Augustus] Parsons Gilman was born in Boston,
Mass., on November 17, 1844, being one of the four chil-
dren of Joseph Piper Gilman, a blacksmith, who spent the
latter part of his life in Laconia, N. H., and Susan (Par-
sons) Gilman. He received his early education at Gilmanton
Academy in Gilmanton, N. H., and before coming to Yale,
where he studied during 1871-72, he spent some time at
Bangor Theological Seminary.

For four years after taking his degree, Mr. Gilman had
charge of a church at Watertown, Conn., where he had
been ordained in 1872, and then, from 1879 until 1884,
he preached in East Milton, Mass. The next twenty-two
years were spent as pastor of the Waverley (Mass.) Con-
gregational Church. From Waverley he went to California,
where he stayed for two years and a half, and during this
period he supplied the Congregational Church at Fresno.
He had spent the remaining years of his life on his farm
in Wolfeboro, N. H., where he died, from angina pectoris,
on May 3, 1914. Burial was in Belmont, Mass.

Articles from his pen, principally on the relation of the
United States to the growth and expansion of the far
Eastern countries, had appeared from time to time, and he
had also delivered numerous lectures throughout New
England. The years of 1877 and 1878 he spent abroad, and
during the latter part of his stay, studied philosophy and
theology at the University of Gottingen. Mr. Gilman
served as a trustee of the public library of Belmont eighteen
years, and had also been a member of the school committee
of that town.

His marriage took place on August 5, 1877, in Gottingen,
Germany, to Agnes, daughter of Scato Lantzius-Beninga,
professor of botany and pharmacy at the University of
Gottingen, and Ottilie (Fuchs) Lantzius-Beninga. Mrs.

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Gilman, who survives her husband, attended the normal
school at Hanover, Germany, and was a teacher before her
marriage. They had one son, — Charles Scato Gilman, a
graduate of Harvard in 1900, — who is also living.

George Lee Beach, B.D. 1873

Born June 24, 1842, in Williamsfield, Ohio
Died February 20, 1915, in Los Angeles, Calif.

George Lee Beach, son of Lemuel and Aurelia (White)
Beach, was born on June 24, 1842, in Williamsfield, Ohio.
His early education was received in Ohio and Pennsylvania,
his father being engaged in the ministry in those states,
and in 1870 he graduated from Oberlin College with a
B.A. degree, having taken the regular four-year course.
The next three years were spent in the pursuit of theological
studies at Yale, where he received the degree of Bachelor
of Divinity in 1873.

In May, 1873, he was ordained to the ministry of the
Congregational Church at Rootstown, Ohio, and preached
in that place for the next seven years. In 1880 he removed
to Reed City, Mich., where he held a pastorate until 1883.
From that year until 1904 he supplied several Presbyterian
churches around Britton, S. Dak.

During the Civil War he served as first sergeant of Com-
pany 1, Tenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserve Corps,
from June, 1861, until April, 1863; from that time until
June of the following year, he was a member of Company
A, First Regiment, Veteran Reserves.

Mr. Beach died on February 20, 1915, after an illness of
a few months due to malignant tumor, at his home in Los
Angeles, Calif., where he had been living since 1910. Burial
was in the cemetery in Britton, S. Dak.

His marriage took place in Marseilles, 111., on October
8, 1873, to E. Jennie, daughter of Levi and Emily (Allis)
Jennings, who survives him. They had one daughter, Lois
(Beach) Wallace.

93° SCHOOL OF RELIGION

Jacob Albert Biddle, B.D. 1875

Born December 24, 1845, in Rochester, Ohio
Died September 24, 1914, in South Manchester, Conn.

Jacob Albert Biddle, son of Rev. Alexander and Made-
line (Naufscar) Biddle, was born in Rochester, Ohio, on
December 24, 1845. He entered the preparatory depart-
ment of Oberlin College in 1865, later attending the col-
lege, from which he received the degree of B.A. in 1870.
After spending some time in college work in Oregon, he
came to New Haven to begin his theological studies at
Yale. He graduated from the School of Religion in 1875,
and immediately entered the Congregational ministry.

For the next seventeen years he held successively the
pastorates of the First Church of Christ, Milford, Conn.,
the First Congregational Church of Oswego, N. Y., and that
of the South Norwalk (Conn.) Congregational Church. In
May, 1893, he took orders in the Protestant Episcopal
Church, and soon afterwards became rector of St. Mary's
Church in South Manchester, Conn., where he remained for
the next ten years. Previous to this he was for a brief
period connected with the Bureau of Labor Statistics at
Hartford.

He took charge of Grace Church parish in New Haven
in November, 1903, but resigned his rectorship in April of
the next year on account of the ill health of his wife.
After a short trip abroad he became rector of Christ
Memorial Church in North Brookfield, Mass., and then
went to South Manchester, where he had since made his
home, occasionally preaching and engaging in other pastoral
duties. During the twelve years previous to his death he
served as archdeacon of the Hartford district of the Dio-
cese of Connecticut. While living in South Manchester,
he had acted as probation officer for the town until about
a year ago, when the condition of his health forced him
to give up this work.

Besides writing for the press, particularly during the
latter years of his life, Mr. Biddle was the author of "The
Industrial History of Connecticut," a book on social
regeneration, and another, "The Perfect Life," as well
as many minor booklets.

1875-1882 93i

Mr. Biddle's death occurred at his home, after a pro-
longed illness due to cancer of the neck, on September 24,
1914. Interment was in the East Cemetery, South
Manchester.

His marriage took place on July 24, 1871, to Anna
Amelia, daughter of Colonel Austin Light and Matilda A.
(McNaughton) Light. Mrs. Biddle, who graduated from
Oberlin College with the degree of Litt.B. in 1870, the hon-
orary degree of M.A. later being conferred upon her by
that institution, survives her husband. They had no
children.

Wilbert Lee Anderson, B.D. 1882

Born July 21, 1857, in East Berkshire, Vt.
Died March 25, 1915, in Methuen, Mass.

Wilbert Lee Anderson was born July 21, 1857, in East
Berkshire, Vt., the son of Ira Stone and Elvina (Perley)
Anderson. From 1875 to 1879 he studied in Oberlin Col-
lege, having previously spent two years in preparatory
study there. He was a member of the Oberlin chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa. On taking his Bachelor's degree in 1879,
he entered Yale to begin his theological studies, and three
years later was graduated with the degree of B.D.

He was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational
Church on February 1, 1883, in Stowe, Vt., and preached
in that town until September, 1890. At that time he
removed to Muskegon, Mich., there becoming pastor of the
First Congregational Church. After two years in that con-
nection, he accepted the pastorate of the First Congrega-
tional Church in Exeter, N. H., where he continued until
1907, when he was installed pastor of the First Church of
Amherst, Mass. He served as minister of this church until
August, 19 1 3, when he resigned to spend a year in study
and travel in Europe. Following his return home in the
summer of 1914, he was occupied in writing and lecturing.

He was a member of the Winthrop Club of Boston, the
Amherst Historical Society, and the Vermont Historical
Society. He had contributed to the Congregationalist and
The Homiletic Review. For some time he had been a
writer and lecturer upon the problems of rural life and the

93 2 SCHOOL OF RELIGION

country church, and his book, "The Country Town: A
Study of Rural Evolution," appeared in 1906. He was
for several years connected with the school for rural leader-
ship at Cornell University. In 1908 Oberlin conferred the
honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity upon him.

On March 25, 1915, while visiting in Methuen, Mass.,
apparently in perfect health, Dr. Anderson's death occurred
without warning, from heart disease. Burial was in the
cemetery of the Congregational Church in his native town.

He was married in Sandusky, Ohio, on August 14, 1883,
to Dorinda Ann, daughter of John Yates and Sarah Eliza-
beth (Deely) Beattie, who survives him without children.
Mrs. Anderson graduated from Oberlin in 1879.

Myron Parsons Dickey, B.D. 1883

Born February 19, 1852, in Derry, N. H.
Died August 30, 191 4, in Kennebunk, Maine

Myron Parsons Dickey was the son of David Woodburn
Dickey, a farmer of Londonderry, N. H., and Sarah Ann
(Campbell) Dickey, and was born on February 19, 1852,
in Derry, N. H., where his preparatory training was received
at Pinkerton Academy. In 1874 he took his Bachelor's
degree from Dartmouth College, being there a member
of Phi Beta Kappa. For the next four years he served as
principal of the Emerson High School in Hampstead, N. H.,
and during 1879-80 was engaged in similar work at
Newmarket, N. H. He came to New Haven in 1880, and
entered Yale in preparation for the ministry, receiving the
degree of B.D. in 1883.

His first pastorate was the First Congregational Church
of Ludlow Center, Mass., where he was ordained on June
14, 1883, and which he held from that time until 1893. The
next fifteen years were spent as pastor of the Milton
(N. H.) Congregational Church, which he left in 1908 to
take the charge of the Second Congregational Church in
Kennebunk, Maine, in which place he was located until his
death, which occurred there on August 30, 1914, from
complications following an operation for appendicitis.
Interment was in Kennebunk.

1882-1883 933

He was married on August 3, 1876, in Palmer, Mass.,
to Louise Ripley, daughter of Asa and Orinda (Hall)
Shumway of that place. She died on October 14, 1908,
shortly after their removal to Kennebunk, and on January
12, 1910, Mr. Dickey's second marriage took place in Mil-
ton, N. H., to Nellie M. Wentworth, a graduate of the
Framingham (Mass.) Normal School. Mrs. Dickey, who
was the daughter of John Amory and Hannah Elizabeth
(Gray) Wentworth, survives her husband. He leaves also
three children by his first marriage: Maurice Woodburn,
a graduate of Dartmouth in 1899, Orinda Sophia, now the
wife of Arthur Thad Smith (B.A. Dartmouth 1896, LL.B.
Harvard 1904) of Winchester, Mass., and Mark Shum-
way. His brother, George A. Dickey, graduated from
Dartmouth in 1880.

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The annual Obituary Record of Yale Graduates was first printed
in i860, and each decade from that time until 1910 completed a
separate series. The present series covers the five years from 1910
to 1915.

In the first printed series (1860-1870) 804 deaths were recorded, —
711 graduates of the College (Academical Department), 76 of the
School of Medicine, 11 of the School of Law, and 6 of the
Scientific School.

In the second series (1870-1880) 791 deaths were recorded, — 680
graduates of the College, 79 of the School of Medicine, 16 of the
Scientific School, 9 of the School of Religion (Divinity School),
and 7 of the School of Law.

In the third series (1880-1890) 965 deaths were recorded, — 796
graduates of the College, 86 of the School of Medicine, 43 of the
Scientific School, 24 of the School of Law, and 16 of the School
of Religion.

In the fourth series (1890-1900) 1,268 deaths were recorded, —
971 graduates of the College, 116 of the Scientific School, 93 of the
School of Medicine, 57 of the School of Law, 27 of the School of
Religion, and 4 of the Graduate School.

In the fifth series (1900-1910) 1,605 deaths were recorded, — 1,106
graduates of the College, 214 of the Scientific School, 117 of the
School of Law, 108 of the School of Medicine, 40 of the School of
Religion, 18 of the Graduate School, 1 of the School of the Fine
Arts, and 1 of the School of Forestry.

In the present series (1910-1915) *9i8 deaths are recorded, — 594
graduates of the College, 160 of the Scientific School, 73 of the
School of Law, 42 of the School of Medicine, 36 of the School of
Religion, 11 of the Graduate School, and 2 of the School of
Forestry.

The sixth printed series of the Obituary Record closes with the
present number. Aid in obtaining information concerning deceased
graduates is urgently requested by the Secretary of the University.

♦This number includes thirty deaths recorded in the Supplement to the series.

STnETILIE^IEIN-T

OBITUARY RECORD

OF

GRADUATES OF YALE UNIVERSITY
1910-11 to 1914-16

YALE COLLEGE

1840

Thomas Sellman Iglehart, son of Thomas and Anne (Sackett)
Iglehart, was born February 27, 1820, near Davidsonville, in Anne
Arundel County, Md. He entered the class at Yale in Freshman
year from St. John's College, Annapolis, Md.

After graduation he lived for several years on his plantation at
Davidsonville, near Annapolis, Md. In 1848 he was a member of
the Maryland House of Delegates, and for a time was tobacco
inspector of the state, living at Baltimore, but since 1855 had resided
at his home, "Indian Range", near Davidsonville.

Mr. Iglehart died of kidney complications at his home, July 23,
1904, at the age of 84 years. He was for nearly fifty years a
vestryman of All Hallows' Protestant Episcopal Church.

He married, November 25, 1848, Mary Anne, daughter of Alfred
Sellman. She died in 1850, and April 29, 1855, he married Margaret
Ella, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Sellman) Welsh. Mr.
Welsh was a farmer living at "The Highlands", near Annapolis.

Mr. Iglehart had ten children, of whom two sons and three daugh-
ters survive him. The elder son, E. Berry Iglehart, of Baltimore,
graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Univer-
sity of Maryland in 1889. One daughter, now residing at Accokeek,

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Prince George County, Md., married Rev. Charles J. Curtis, who
was formerly rector of All Hallows' Church.

1849

Philip Gleason Galpin, son of Philip S. Galpin, was born
February 3, 1830, in Buffalo, N. Y.

After graduation he studied law in the Yale Law School two years
and was admitted to the bar in 1851. He then practiced law until
April, 1853, m Findlay, O., and a few months following in Toledo, O.
Removing to New York City he was a member of the law firm of
Pike & Galpin until May, 1859, and continued in that city until
1874, although he spent long periods in California on legal busi-
ness— nearly a year in 1857-58, from January, 1861, to November,
1862, and from April, 1865, to October, 1867. He then passed a
year abroad. In 1874 he removed to California, where he continued
in law practice until his retirement, residing in Berkeley.

While abroad he married in Paris, January 11, 1868, Mrs. Mary
E. Culver. She died January 20, 1883, and on March 20, 1886, he
married Julia B. Castro, by whom he had two sons and a daughter.

Mr. Galpin died of cerebral apoplexy at Adler's sanatorium in
San Francisco, July 14, 191 1, at the age of 81 years. The younger
son, Philip G. Galpin, Jr., resides in Berkeley, Calif.

1867

Cornelius Lansing Allen, son of Hon. Cornelius Lansing Allen
(B.A. Princeton 1818), who was judge of the Supreme Court of
New York, was born August 7, 1847, at Salem, N. Y. His mother
was Sarah Hester (Russell) Allen. He was fitted for college at
the Washington Academy in his native town.

After his graduation from the College he studied law and received
the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the Albany Law School
(Union University) in 1869. He then engaged in journalism for a
short time, but from 1871 to 1887 practiced law in Salem. During
twelve years of this time he *was a special judge of Washington
County, and a local magistrate in Salem. Between 1881 and 1887
he was at various times a candidate for the offices of supervisor,
district attorney, and surrogate.

On January 1, 1887, he entered the service of the Lascelles Manu-
facturing Company, makers of soaps and perfumery in Salem, with
branches in several cities. The latter part of his life was clouded,
and since about 1900 he had been obliged to give up active work.

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He had at intervals been in a sanitarium, and since 1909 had been
in the State Hospital at Matteawan, N. Y., where he died August
27, 1912, at the age of 65 years.

He married at Salem, January 13, 1869, Ada L. Russell, and had
five daughters and three sons. Three of the daughters and the two
younger sons are deceased.

1885

John Dennis Ferris, son of John Dennis and Delia Francis
(Harris) Ferris, was born in Madison, N. J., March 21, 1862. His
father was a school teacher, but during the Civil War enlisted in the
United States Navy and at the time of the son's birth was serving
on the Mistletoe. After his father's death in 1867 his mother moved
to Chatham, N. J., the home of his paternal grandfather. From
there he went to Phillips (Andover) Academy.

The first two years after graduation he engaged in teaching in
King's School, Stamford, Conn. For about four years following he
was in Duluth, Minn., most of that time in the office of the city
engineer, and then with a private engineering firm there. He then
returned East and was thereafter connected with the mercantile
agency of R. G. Dun & Co. in Philadelphia.

He married, June 18, 1901, Nellie Sheard Hill, daughter of George
W. and Mary Louisa (Sheard) Hill, of Philadelphia, and lived in
Germantown, where their twin children were born May 25, 1905.
Mrs. Ferris died at home only a few days later, and within a few
weeks afterward, on July 19, 1905, Mr. Ferris also died there of
typhoid fever. He was 43 years of age. The son, John Loman,
named for a classmate, went to live with his father's sister, Mrs.
John Ellett, in Chatham, N. J., and the daughter with her mother's
parents in Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Ferris were buried at Whit-
marsh Valley, near Philadelphia. Mr. Ferris's mother survived him.

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1845.

James Austin, third son and fourth of the ten children of Job
Curry Austin, a farmer, was born at Red Mills, now Mahopac
Falls, Putnam County, N. Y., March 10, 1820. His mother was
Louisa (Smith) Austin.

After study in the local schools he finished his college prepara-
tion in Easton, Pa., and entering Union College received the degree
of Bachelor of Arts from there in 1842.

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He then entered the Yale Medical School, and on completing the
course went first to Michigan, but later removed to Hamburg, la.,
where he practiced his profession until his death December II,
1879. He was 59 years of age, and was unmarried. He was buried
in Hamburg.

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Samuel Catlin, son of Samuel and Lucy (Wickwire) Catlin,
was born in Watertown, Conn., September 2, 1827. His mother,
who died in 1842, was the fifth of the seven children of Grant
Wickwire, who removed from East Haddam, Conn., to Litchfield,
and in 1791 married Sarah Throop. His early education was in
the village school.

He obtained part of his medical training* in Watertown and
Litchfield, coming thence to the Medical School, from which he
graduated after a year of study. After practicing five years in
Watertown he settled in Tecumseh, Mich., which was his home for
sixty years. In his earlier years there his practice extended over
a wide territory. During the Civil War he was a volunteer surgeon
in the Union Army, in the Twenty-sixth Michigan Infantry. Much
later, after a course of study in electric therapeutics in Chicago,
he received a diploma from the Illinois School of Electric Thera-
peutics. Although absorbed in professional duties he was greatly
interested in public matters and for fourteen years was a member
of the Tecumseh school board. He was a member of the
Presbyterian Church.

Dr. Catlin retired from active practice about ten years before
his death, which was caused by hardening of the arteries, and
occurred at Tecumseh, March 14, 1912, in the 85th year of his age.

He married first in Tecumseh, Rebecca Stillson, by whom he
had a son, Herbert W. (M.D. Detroit Med. Coll. 1883), who is a
practicing physician in Grand Rapids, Mich., and a daughter who
died at the age of thirteen about 1881. For his second wife he
married, October 21, 1880, Mrs. Harriet Ash Eastwood, who
survives him.

1855

Edward Henry Bartlett was born near Matanzas, Cuba, July 8,
1831. He was the son of George Bartlett, who was a native of
Haverhill, Mass., but who became a planter in Cuba, and died at
Sagua la Grande in 1849. His mother was Caroline Maria Harper,
from Germantown, Pa. After his father's death one brother,

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Charles, continued on the plantation in Cuba, while he and his
brother George settled with their mother in Maryland.

He attended school in Boston, Mass., and was a student in St.
Mary's College, Baltimore, before coming to New Haven.

After his graduation from the Yale Medical School he settled
in practice in Oakland, Md. For eight years he was superintendent
of public schools of Garrett County, Md., and for two years a
member of the State Board of Education. During the Civil War
he was a surgeon in the Confederate Army. In President Cleve-
land's second term he was appointed postmaster of Oakland.

Dr. Bartlett died at his home in Oakland, October 2, 1913, at
the age of 82 years. He was senior warden of the Protestant
Episcopal Church.

He married in Memphis, Tenn., December 16, 1856, Jane Arm-
strong, who died September 21, 1859. His second marriage,
September 26, 1867, was to Harriet Fairall. He had eight children.

1862

Jeremiah Wadsworth Terry, fifth of the eleven children of
Alfred Terry (B.A. Yale 1821) and Clarissa (Howe) Terry, was
born May 25, 1833, in New Haven, Conn. He was a grandson of
Nathaniel Terry (B.A. Yale 1786) and a brother of Colonel Adrian
Terry (B.A. Yale 1852) and General Alfred Howe Terry (Hon.
M.A. Yale 1865). He was a great-grandson of Colonel Jeremiah
Wadsworth (hon. M.A. Yale 1796).

He attended the schools of John E. Lovell and Gen. William H.
Russell (B.A. Yale 1833) in New Haven.

In the fall after graduation, September 8, 1862, he was appointed
first assistant surgeon of the Twentieth Connecticut Volunteer
Infantry, and was on duty at Chancellors ville and Gettysburg.
August 26, 1863, he was promoted to be surgeon of the same
regiment. The following month his army corps was transferred
to the Army of the Cumberland and he was in the battles of
Allatoona, Peach Tree Creek, and others, and the sieges of Atlanta
and Savannah. He was mustered out of service June 13, 1865,
at Washington, D. C, and during the next ten years practiced as
a surgeon in the regular army in Frankfort and Louisville, Ky.,
and St. Paul, Minn., his brother, General Alfred H. Terry, being
stationed in these regions at the same time. In 1.876 he settled
in Englewood, N. J., where he had since practiced his profession.
For some years between 1880 and 1890 he was chairman of the
Common Council. In 1878 he transferred his membership from the

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North (now United) Congregational Church in New Haven to
the First Presbyterian Church, Englewood.

Dr. Terry died of valvular heart disease at his home in
Englewood, April 10, 1905, in the 726. year of his age.

He married at Englewood, October 13, 1876, Josephine Christina,
daughter of Sampson Vryling Stoddard Wilder, an importing
merchant. She survived him, but died October 8, 1913. Their three
sons died in early childhood, but two daughters, Faith Wadsworth
Terry and Rose Wilder Terry, and one sister, Frances Terry, are
living.

1894

Edward Brooks Marston, son of Edward T. Marston, a ship
carpenter, and Frances J. (Allen) Marston, was born March 25,
1864, at Bath, Me., and gained his early education at the High
School there.

After his graduation from the Medical School he at once settled
in practice in Lynn, Mass., and died there February 27, 1913, after
an illness of two days from pneumonia. He was in his 49th year.
He was buried in Bath. He was a member of the Central
Congregational Church in Bath.

Dr. Marston was married in 1893, but had no children. A
brother, Dr. Eben Marston (M.D. Bowdoin 1893), survives him.

SCHOOL OF LAW

1850

James Thayer Van Deventer, son of Christopher Van Deventer
(West Point 1808), was born November 22, 1830, at Newstead,
Erie County, N. Y. His mother was Sarah, daughter of Dr.
Solomon Birckhead, of Baltimore, Md. He attended the private
school of Gustavus Dennison and studied in the law office of
Clinton & Nichols, both in Buffalo, N. Y., before entering the
Yale Law School.

Upon attaining his majority in 1852 he was admitted to the bar
at Albion, N. Y., and entered into partnership with Myron Hawley
Tyrrell, under the name of Tyrrell & Van Deventer in Buffalo, but
the following year he formed a new partnership with Asher P.
Nichols. In 1856 he removed to Clinton, la., where he was
treasurer and manager of the Iowa Land Co.

Enlisting for service in the Civil War he was appointed captain
and commissary of subsistence September 27, 1862, was brevetted

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major for meritorious services March 30, 1865, lieutenant-colonel
March 13, 1866, and colonel April 5, 1866.

After the war he was president of the Iowa Railroad Land Co.
with headquarters at Cedar Rapids, la., but continued to reside at
Clinton until his removal to Knoxville, Tenn., in 1888. He was a
member of the House of Representatives of Iowa from 1871 to
1873, and as chairman of the committee on enrolled bills had
supervision of the State code before it was adopted. Upon his
removal to Knoxville he retired from active business. For many
years he was a member of the Irving Club there, and some of
his essays for the club were printed. In February, 1899, he pre-
sented the colors to the Sixth United States Volunteer Infantry
at Arecibo, Porto Rico, and his address on that occasion was
published by the Knoxville local press.

Colonel Van Deventer died at Knoxville, Tenn., September 18,
1910, in the 80th year of his age. He was a vestryman of the
Protestant Episcopal Church both at Clinton, la., and at Knoxville.

He married at Birmingham (now Derby), Conn., April 20, 1852,
Anna, daughter of Thomas and Catherine (Elliot) Burlock. She
died leaving no children, and June 28, 1855, he married Jennie C,
daughter of Cyrus Clarke, a merchant of Buffalo, N. Y. His
son by this marriage, Cyrus Clarke Van Deventer (B.A. Hobart
1876), died at Kingman, Kans., in March, 1909. He married, third,
at Clinton, la., December 10, 1862, Letitia, daughter of Thomas
Jefferson Flournoy, a merchant at Princeton, Ky., and Clinton, la.,
and by this marriage had six sons : James Flournoy, Thomas
Lennox, Horace (Ph.B. Univ. Mich. 1890; LL.B. Harvard 1893),
Hugh Flournoy (B.S. Univ. Mich. 1892; B.A. Harvard 1893), Fay-
ette Flournoy, and Christopher (E.E. Columbia 1897). The second
and fifth sons were non-graduates of the University of Michigan.
The two eldest sons died in early manhood, but the other sons with
Mrs. Van Deventer survive him.

1859

Ezra Leander Brainerd, fourth of the five sons of Heber and
Esther Maria (Hubbard) Brainerd, was born July 14, 1836, at Had-
dam, Conn. He was a nephew of Rev. Davis Smith Brainerd (B.A.
Yale 1834), who was for over thirty years pastor of the Congre-
gational Church in Lyme, Conn., and from 1861 until his death in
1875 a Fellow of Yale College.

After study at Brainerd Academy in Haddam and a year of
teaching in Wethersfield, Conn., he entered the Law School in

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1857, and upon graduation went to Chicago, 111., where he began
the practice of his profession, but was soon interrupted by the
outbreak of the Civil War.

Enlisting as a private he recruited two full companies of men
and parts of other companies for the Union Army, was appointed
second lieutenant of Company B, Fifty-first Regiment of Illinois
Volunteers, and, -March 1, 1862, captain of Company D of the same
regiment. He was in the battle of Shiloh and at Hamburg Land-
ing, Tenn., but over-exertion and exposure prostrated him, and
before his furlough expired he was mustered out of service.

Being unable for several years to resume his profession he estab-
lished a successful real estate business in Chicago, and was inter-
ested in the development of several of its suburbs. He secured
direct railroad facilities and the establishment of a station at
Brainerd, now in the city.

He was a member of the South Congregational Church in Chi-
cago and afterward of the Brainerd Congregational Church. He
was for years Sunday school superintendent.

Mr. Brainerd died at Chicago May 14, 1909. He was in his
73d year.

He married in Chicago, May 29, 1862, Harriet Brown Morehouse,
daughter of Louis Peck Morehouse, a sign and ornamental painter
of New Haven, and Harriet Augusta (Brown) Morehouse, and
sister of Louis Peck Morehouse (Ph.B. Yale 1856). They had
four sons, — Henry Hamilton, William Lord, Frederic Hubbard,
and Wallace Heber, — three of whom graduated from the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, respectively in 1886, 1889, and
1891.

1891

Charles Patrick Bohan, son of Paul and Bridget Ellen
(McCanna) Bohan, was born November 21, 1868, in Pittston, Pa.,
where his father had lived since 1854 and had held several muni-
cipal offices, and was vice-president of the People's Savings Bank
until his death in 1900.

After graduation from the Law School he practiced his profes-
sion in Pittston. In 1909 a severe attack of the grip left him with
a weak heart, which failed suddenly causing his death at La Grange,
Pa., April 22, 1912. He was 44 years of age and unmarried. A
brother, Cormac Francis Bohan, a graduate of the Yale Law School
in 1883, died in 191 1. His mother and two sisters, Mrs. Edward
Barrett and Mrs. William Wilson, survive him. He was a member
of the Roman Catholic Church.

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1892

Morgan John Flaherty, son of John and Mary (McGrath)
O'Flaherty (as the family name was earlier written), was born
December 13, 1866, in Ansonia, Conn. His father was a native of
County Kerry, Ireland, but from 1861 to 1889 lived in Ansonia,
engaged until 1874 in a copper mill, and later in the grocery busi-
ness. He obtained his early education in the Birmingham (now
Derby) High School. After finishing his course there he worked
on the Ansonia Sentinel, and was later connected with New Haven
newspapers.

He was naturally drawn to politics and before entering the Law
School was a candidate for borough clerk of Ansonia, and the
year of his graduation was selected to represent Connecticut at the
National Democratic headquarters in New York. He then prac-
ticed law in New Haven until 1895. For a time he was in the
office of Hon. Timothy J. Fox (LL.B. Yale 1869) and later was
private secretary to United States Patent Commissioner John S.
Seymour (B.A. Yale 1875). Desiring to devote himself to news-
paper work he entered the service of the Associated Press in Bos-
ton, but on account of illness removed after a few months to Maine,
where he remained eighteen years. He at first edited the Bar Har-
bor Record, and was editorially connected successively with the
Lewiston Sun and News, the Rockland Daily Star, and for six
years with the Portland Argus. He also represented other papers
during the legislative sessions in Augusta, and was correspondent
of New York papers. In June, 1913, he joined the staff of the
Detroit (Mich.) Free Press, and after becoming familiar with the
political and industrial conditions of the state was to be in charge
of the bureau of that paper at Washington, D. C. In addition to
his regular contributions to the press he wrote stories, descriptive
articles, and verse. Much of his verse had appeared in the Free
Press and in magazines, and in 1909 a volume of humorous verse
on the leading features of the session of the Maine legislature of
that year was published.

While making a tour of the West in preparation for his Wash-
ington work he was taken with pneumonia, of which he died in
Detroit, Mich., February 6, 1914, in the 48th year of his age.
The funeral service was held at the Church of the Assumption in
Ansonia. Two sisters, two half-brothers — one of them, Claude
Vincent Flaherty, a graduate of the Medical School in 1910 — and
a step-mother survive him.

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1894

Olivejr Hazard Perry Merritt, son of Charles A. and Julia
(Bedient) Merritt, was born in Ossining (formerly Sing Sing),
New York, on July 20, 1873. While at Yale he was registered as
Oliver Perry Merritt. The family moved to Danbury, Conn.,
where he attended the High School, and also studied law with
Judge Lyman D. Brewster (B.A. Yale 1855), entering the Yale Law
School from that place for Senior year.

After graduation he was in practice with Waldo Grant Morse in
New York City, and later opened an office in Tarrytown with
Harry G. Griffin, but on account of ill health was obliged to go
to California and other sections of the West. Upon his return he
was again associated with Mr. Morse, but in 1900 began practice
in Yonkers, N. Y., where he died of typhoid fever November 12,
1904. He was 31 years of age. The interment was in Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown.

He married, on December if, 1899, Fannie B., daughter of Win-
field Scott Bird (LL.B. Columbia 1873), of Tarrytown, N. Y.,
who survived him with a son. Mrs. Merritt afterward married
William S. Allen of Tarrytown.

1899

Taro Yamada was born in Tokyo, Japan, February 13, 1876. He
was the son of Suetji Yamada, the founder of the Japan Times,
and Maki (Nishitani) Yamada. He attended Keiogijuku Uni-
versity in Tokyo before coming to America and entered the Yale
Law School in 1896.

After graduation he immediately returned to Japan and joined
the editorial staff of the Japan Times. During the Boxer trouble
in 1900 he was chief interpreter with the Japanese army in North
China and secretary to the commander, General Baron Yamaguchi.
In recognition of his services to his country at that time he
received the decoration of the Order of the Rising Sun. In Febru-
ary, 1901, he was called to be private secretary to the Marquis Ito
(LL.D. Yale 1901), then premier of the empire. On the fall of
the cabinet a few months later he returned to the Times and
became its managing editor and proprietor, succeeding his father.
He traveled through Asia, America, and Europe, visiting the
principal cities and points of interest.

He died in Tokyo, December 8, 1907, after an illness of several
months from cancer of the intestines. He was 31 years of age.

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The funeral rites were conducted at Aoyama cemetery by priests
of the Zen sect, Major-General K. Okada reading an address.

Mr. Yamada married in 1904 Miss Suen Shimmura, sister of
Hon. C. Shimmura, judge of the Tokyo District Court. She
survives him.

1906

Norman Weil, son of Moses and Sarah (Hess) Weil, was born
September 15, 1877, in Ironton, Ohio. His father was in the cloth-
ing business there but died in 1887. The son obtained his college
education at the Baltimore (Md.) City College. While in the
Yale Law School he took honors each year.

After graduating, he was connected with law firms in New York
City for about a year, when he was seized with the illness which
terminated in his death three years later. He died in Baltimore,
September 10, 1910, from a complication of diseases, and was
buried in that city. He was in his 33d year, and was not mar-
ried. A brother, M. H. Weil, of Baltimore survives him. He was
a member of the Oheb Shalom Congregation.

MASTER OF LAWS

1878

Kazuo Hatoyama, son of Hirofusa Hatoyama and Kiku Miura,
was born at Katsuyama, in the prefecture of Okayama, Japan, April
3, 1856.

After his graduation from the Imperial University of Tokyo
in 1875 he came to the United States, and received the degree of
Bachelor of Laws from Columbia University in 1877. After a year
of study in the Graduate class of the Yale Law School he received
the degree of Master of Laws, and after two years of further study
that of Doctor of Civil Law in 1880. At Columbia and until his last
year of study at Yale he was registered as Kazuo Miura, but then
took the name of Hatoyama.

In 1880 he was appointed lecturer in the Imperial University of
Tokyo. From 1885 to 1888 he was director of the Investigating
Bureau at the Foreign Office. Until 1890 he was principal and
professor of the Imperial University, Tokyo, and then for about
eighteen years served as president of Waseda University. From
1892 until his death he was a member of the House of Commons
from Tokyo and in 1896 the president of the same. In 1898 he
was vice-minister of foreign affairs in the Okuma cabinet. He

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was one of the leaders of the Seiyukai (constitutional party). He
practiced as a lawyer when he was not occupied in the govern-
ment service.

Dr. Hatoyama was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws
by Yale in 1901, and in October of that year delivered the annual
course of Storrs Lectures in the Yale Law School, his subject being
"The Japanese Civil Code."

He died of cancer at Tokyo, September 4, 191 1, at the age of
55 years.

He married at Tokyo, November 14 1881, Haru Taga, and had
two sons: Ichiro Hatoyama, who is now a member of parliament,
and Hideo Hatoyama, who is a professor in the Imperial Uni-
versity, Tokyo. Mrs. Hatoyama survives him with the two sons
and their wives and three grandchildren.

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1861

Carrington Howard Raymond, son of Israel Ward Raymond, a
merchant in San Francisco, and Frances (Howard) Raymond, was
born December 5, 1840, in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he was prepared
for college at the Polytechnic Institute. He entered the Sheffield
Scientific School in i860 and took the Engineering course.

Soon after graduation he enlisted in Company D, Seventh Regi-
ment of New Jersey Volunteers and was appointed first lieutenant,
October 31, 1861. This office he resigned in June, 1863, to accept
a commission as major and assistant adjutant-general of United
States Volunteers. He continued in service through the Civil War,
resigning February 1, 1865.

After the war he was for many years a banker and broker in
Wall Street, New York City. From about 1870 until 1890 or later
he was associated with Newcombe C. Barney in the firm of Barney,
Raymond & Co., but after his withdrawal from the firm continued
in business through life.

Mr. Raymond died of cancer November 13, 1913, at New
Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y., where he had long resided. He was
nearly 73 years of age. He was a member of the Protestant
Episcopal Church.

He married at Washington, D. C, November 28, 1866, Rebecca
Melville Gilliss, daughter of Captain James Melville Gilliss of the

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United States Navy. He had four sons and two daughters, of
whom the youngest son is deceased. The surviving children are
Ward, James G., Charles M., Matilda M., and Frances. Mrs.
Raymond died September 12, 1885.

1866

Charles Henry Gauss, son of Eugene and Henrietta (Fawcett)
Gauss, was born August 14, 1845, in St. Charles, Mo.

His father, who was the son of Carl Friedrich Gauss, Professor
of Mathematics in the University of Gottingen, Germany, left home
in 1831, while a student in that university, and came to America.
Then, after serving as a private in the United States Army at Fort
Snelling, Minn., he spent several years in the employ of the Ameri-
can Fur Company, and learned the Sioux language, into which he
translated parts of the Bible for a missionary. About ten years
after coming to America he settled in St. Charles, Mo., where he
was later for many years in the lumber business, and was president
of the First National Bank. He died near Columbia, Mo., in 1896,
and his wife died there at the age of nearly 93 years, in 1909.

The son was a student in St. Charles College and Washington
University, St. Louis, before entering the Civil Engineering course
in the Sheffield Scientific School.

Upon his graduation at Yale he returned to Missouri and assisted
in the construction of the North Missouri Railroad (now a part of
the Wabash system), but on account of illness went home and
entered the lumber business with his father. In 1872 he removed
to Sedalia, Mo., where he continued in the same business until
1883, when he removed to San Antonio, Texas, and formed a part-
nership in the lumber business with his brother-in-law, Arthur
Clifford Johns. Ten years later he returned to Missouri, and there-
after was a traveling lumber salesman. He at first made his home
near Columbia, then in St. Louis, and from 1905 in St. Charles.

He was a democrat in politics, and while living in Sedalia served
as a councilman, and treasurer of the school board for a time.
While in San Antonio he assisted in organizing the Young Men's
Christian Association there and was a director of it for several
years. He was a member of the Southern Presbyterian Church,
in which he was made a deacon at the age of about twenty-five
years, and ruling elder at thirty.

During the greater part of his life he was remarkably youthful
and active, but the last two or three years he was at home in
failing health, at times with severe suffering. He died of angina

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL 957

pectoris at St. Charles, January 18, 1913, in the 68th year of his
age. His younger brother Robert, who for thirty years had been
an editorial writer on The Denver Republican, died the same night.
Both were buried in St. Charles.

Mr. Gauss married in St. Charles, November 4, 1869, Charlotte
Elizabeth Johns, a graduate of Lindenwood College for Women in
that place. She was the daughter of John Jay Johns (B.A. Miami
Univ. 1840) and his second wife, Jane Amanda (Durfee) Johns.
They had five sons and seven daughters, of whom the two younger
sons and five of the daughters with Mrs. Gauss survive him. The
surviving sons are John Montgomery and Matthew Johns, and
the daughters Blanche, Anne Durfee, Virginia Fawcett, Lois, and
Minna Waldeck.

1883

John Bartholomew, originally John Girard Bartholomew, son
of John Luther and Henrietta A. (Johnson) Bartholomew, was
born July 31, 1861, in New Britain, Conn. During his college years
the family home was in Guilford. His father was in the Civil War
and died in Andersonville Prison in 1864.

After preparation in the Collegiate and Commercial Institute of
General William H. Russell (B.A. Yale 1833) in New Haven he
took the course in Dynamic Engineering in the Sheffield Scientific
School. He was awarded a prize in mathematics in his Freshman
and Junior years, and in his Freshman year won honorable mention
for excellence in all his studies. In Senior year he received prizes
for excellence in German and Dynamic Engineering.

After graduation he was for a time in the service of the Thom-
son-Houston Electric Co., in Boston, in 1884 he became owner and
engineer in charge of the Hudson Bridge Works at Hudson, N. Y.,
and in 1893 treasurer and chief engineer of the New England Engi-
neering Company at Springfield, Mass. In 1900 he was appointed
bridge designer with the Pennsylvania Steel Company at Steelton,
Pa., and 1907 entered the State Engineer's Department at Albany,
N. Y., as bridge designer for the state. His last work was the
designing and building of a "bascule skew" bridge over the canal
at Syracuse, N. Y.

Mr. Bartholomew died of tuberculosis in Albany, December 31,
1910, at the age of 49 years. The burial was in the Albany Rural
Cemetery.

He married in Guilford, April 30, 1884, Ella Foster Tefft, daugh-
ter of A. Martyn Tefft, of Greenwich, N. Y., who was in the

95 8 SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL

insurance business, and Catherine (Benson) Tefft. She survives
him. Their only child, a son, is deceased.

1890

William Alexander Simms, son of William H. Simms, a
banker of Dayton, Ohio, who was from 1853 to 1856 a student in
Miami University, was born in Dayton, October 19, 1869. His
mother's maiden name was Emma Harris. After preparation in
Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., he took the Select course
in the Sheffield Scientific School. In his Senior year he was a
member of the University Crew.

After graduation he became a stock farmer, and was successful
in the raising of fine stock. He died November 19, 1906, at the
age of 37 years, and was buried in Dayton. He was unmarried.
His father survives him.

SCHOOL OF RELIGION (Divinity School)
1876

Frederick Wesson Newcomb, son of Wesson and Eunice Jane
(Deming) Newcomb, was born December 3, 1843, in Barnard, Vt,
where his father had settled the previous year as a farmer. He
was prepared for college at the Orange County (Vt.) Grammar
School, and in 1872 received the degree of Bachelor of Arts
from Dartmouth College. For nearly a year after his college
graduation he studied law in Montpelier, Vt., and then, chang-
ing his purpose, spent three years in the Yale School of Religion
(Divinity School), graduating in 1876. During his course at Yale
his health failed, and he was never able to undertake regular minis-
terial work. After a sea voyage from New York to the Pacific
Coast for his health, and some work in surveying in Oregon, he
returned in 1879 to his native town, where he thereafter resided.
During the summers for many years he was engaged as a col-
porteur for the Vermont Bible Society, and had done useful work
in all parts of the state. He was for many years deacon in the
Congregational Church of Bethel, the nearest to this home.

Mr. Newcomb died at the home of a foster-sister, Mrs. George
Nye, in South Royalton, Vt., May 11, 191 1, of valvular disease of
the heart. He was in the 68th year of his age, and never married.

SCHOOL OF RELIGION 959

1878

Joseph Brayton Clarke, son of Joseph and Phebe Ann (Slafter)
Clarke, was born October 19, 1847, at Wales, Mass. He was pre-
pared for college at Monson Academy, graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1873, and two years later entered the Yale Divinity
School (School of Religion).

Upon finishing his theological course, he preached three years
at Colebrook and Barkhamsted, Conn., and was ordained at the
latter place May 4, 1881. He continued in the pastorate at Bark-
hamsted eight years, and then removed to California, where he was
pastor at Hanford in Kings County from 1891 to 1901, at Tulare
from 1901 to 1904, and the following year at Falk and Fields Land-
ing, the last two places in Humboldt County. Since then he had
lived in Tulare, and supplied for varying periods the churches at
West Hartland, Armona, Tipton, Walnut Grove, and Tulare. Mr.
Clarke died as the result of an accident at Tulare, Calif., July 1,
191 1, in the 64th year of his age.

He married June 23, 1873, at Barnard, Vt, Ellen M., daughter of
Josiah S. and Mary M. (Richmond) Gale. She survived him with
five children.

1881

Ivan Nicholas Matincheff, son of Nicholas Matincheff, a
merchant of Samokov, Bulgaria, was born there May 17, 1854. He
received his early education in the American Collegiate and Theo-
logical Institute in that town, and was for over a year assistant to
Rev. W. E. Locke in the work of erecting the Girls' Boarding
School building there. Being anxious to fit himself to be both an
evangelist and physician he came to America, and after study in
Oberlin College took his Middle and Senior years in the Yale
School of Religion (Divinity School), and was ordained as an
evangelist. In Middle year he was registered as John Nicholas
Matincheff. He also attended lectures in the Yale Medical School,
and later received the degree of Doctor of Medicine elsewhere.

After his return to Bulgaria, he was for a time pastor of an
Evangelical Church in Sofia and also practiced medicine, but later
devoted himself to medical work, and was government physician
on a section of the railroad and secretary of the Superior Medical
Council in Sofia.

Dr. Matincheff died of tuberculosis at a sanitarium in Davos,
Switzerland, in June or July, 1891, at the age of 37 years.

9^0 SCHOOL OF RELIGION

He married Adriana Tikcheff of Svishtoff on the Danube. She
survived him with a son. His father and two brothers also survived
him.

1886

Solomon Greasley Merrick, son of Charles F. and Lucie
(Cloudsley) Merrick, was born January 21, 1858, at Easton, Md.
He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Lebanon Valley
College in 1883.

After three years of study in the Yale School of Religion
(Divinity School) he was ordained, October 21, 1886, at Gaines,
Orleans County, N. Y., where he was pastor ten years. Then until
1900 he was pastor at Duxbury, Mass. Removing to Florida he
was pastor six years at Cocoanut Grove, and there he continued
to reside. He died at Pittsburgh, Pa., from heart trouble June 6,
191 1, at the age of 53 years.

He married at Pittsburgh, March 26, 1885, Althea, daughter of
H. G. G. and Alemeda ( Wagy) Fink. They had three sons and
four daughters. Mrs. Merrick and six of the children survive
him.

1890

Julius Adolph Meckel, son of Maximilian C. Meckel, a lithog-
rapher, and Maria Hedwig (Halbritter) Meckel, was born in
Cincinnati, Ohio, November 25, 1858. His father died in 1868, and
his mother in 1908. After preparation at Hudson (Ohio) Academy,
he entered Oberlin College from Cleveland, Ohio, and was enrolled
as a student there from 1885 to 1887, coming thence to Yale.

After his course in the Divinity School (School of Religion)
he at once went to the University of Berlin, where he spent a year
in the study of philosophy. After his return to the United States
he was on the editorial staffs of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Dispatch and
Gazette from 1893 to 1895, and during the succeeding five years
was secretary and treasurer of the Meckel Brothers Company,
dealers in pianos in Cleveland. He was then obliged to retire on
account of failing health, and died in Cleveland of myocarditis,
October 15, 1913, in the 55th year of his age. He was unmarried.
The burial was in Lake View Cemetery. Four brothers: Fred-
erick A., of Emporia, Kans. ; Theodore C, of Erie, Pa.; and Max
L. and Frank of Cleveland, survive him.

SCHOOL OF RELIGION 96 1

1 89 1

Jacob Cornelius Bergmans, son of Cornelius Bergmans, was born
in East Friesland, June 4, i860, but he came to this country in
1869. His parents first settled in Virginia, but afterwards moved
to Zeeland, Mich., where he received his early education. He
taught school two years in Holland, Mich., in 1885 entered Albion
College, Mich., and after two years as a student there, preached
nearly two years in Old Mission, Mich. From 1888 to 1890 he
was enrolled in Oberlin Seminary, and then entered the Yale
School of Religion (Divinity School) for his Senior year.

After graduation and licensure by the Western New York (Con-
gregational) Association he was pastor of the Congregational
Church in Perry, N. Y., from 1892 to 1894, and then was abroad
for a year. In 1895 the Dutch Reformed Church in the Dutch
colony at New York Mills was formed, and the same year Mr.
Bergmans was called to the pastorate, in which he continued until
August, 1901. He then became pastor of the Reformed Churches
in Gilboa and South Gilboa, N. Y.

Mr. Bergmans died in Gilboa of cerebro-spinal meningitis,
October 2, 1902, at the age of 42 years.

He married at New York Mills, November 1, 1899, Mrs. Ruth
Van Dyke, daughter of Gerrit and Henriette (DeLeeuw) Slauger.
She survives him with one daughter. She afterwards married
A. J. Pennings, and resides in Orange City, la.

1901

Henry Herbert Moninger, younger son and fourth of the five
children of Onias and Emily (Leyde) Moninger, was born April
29, 1876, near Lone Pine, Washington County, Pa. He was pre-
pared for college at Bethany, W. Va., graduated as a Bachelor of
Arts from Bethany (W. Va.) College in 1898, and as a Master of
Arts from West Virginia University in 1899. He then studied a
year in Butler College, Irvington, Ind., and was a member of his
class in the Yale School of Religion (Divinity School) during
Senior year.

After finishing his course there he preached a year at the First
Christian Church in Tiffin, Ohio, and three years at the Fourth
Street Christian Church at Steubenville. He left his charge there
to take up Bible school work in Cincinnati.

Mr. Moninger died of complications following an operation for
appendicitis in Cincinnati, June 21, 1911, at the age of 35 years.

962 GRADUATE SCHOOL

His father, also one brother, J. Wildon Moninger, and a sister,
Netta B. Moninger, are living. His mother died in 1903, and two
sisters are also deceased.

He married, December 25, 1900, Grace, daughter of Jehu and
Jennie Cooper, living near Charleroi, Pa. She survives him with
a son and a daughter, twins.

He was the author of "Studies in the Gospels and Acts," "The
New Testament Church," "Bible Drills," "The Adult Bible Class
in Training for Service," and "Service in Song," and of manuals
for different departments of church work. He also gave many
addresses and lectures.

GRADUATE SCHOOL

MASTER OF ARTS
1892

James Crawford Lester, son of James H. and Olivia J. (Craw-
ford) Lester, was born in Pulaski, Tenn., March 29, 1865. He was
a student in Vanderbilt University from 1886 to 1888, entered
Amherst College as a Junior and graduated there in 1890. The
following year he spent in the study of Romance philology and
philosophy in the Graduate School of Yale University, and the next
year at the Yale Divinity School (School of Religion), obtaining
then the degree of Master of Arts. The two years succeeding he
studied at Union Theological Seminary.

For the benefit of his health he went immediately thereafter
to the Adirondacks, but his disease made rapid progress, and he
died of consumption, at Axton, near Saranac Lake, N. Y., July
13, 1894, at the age of 29 years. He was unmarried.

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

1905

Joseph Fogelberg, son of J. M. Fogelberg, was born in Kalmar,
Sweden, June 14, 1875. He was fitted for college at the state pre-
paratory school in Kalmar, then came to the United States and
took the course in Bethany College, at Lindsborg, Kans., receiving
the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1809.

He then entered the Yale Graduate School, making German his
chief study, and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

GRADUATE SCHOOL 963

1905. In the autumn of 1906 he studied in the University of Ber-
lin, and during several months following was an instructor in
German in Williams College. In the summer of 1907 he returned
to Sweden, where he died in October, 1909, at the age of 34 years.
His father survived him.

In the Supplement to the present series, 1911-1915, 30 deaths are
recorded, — 4 graduates of the College, 5 of the School of Medicine,
8 of the School of Law, 4 of the Sheffield Scientific School, 7 of
the School of Religion, and 2 of the Graduate School.

IISTIDIEJIX:

Members of the Scientific and Graduate Schools, and of the Schools of Forestry,

Law, Medicine, and Religion are indicated by the letters s, ma or dp, mf I, cl,

or ml, m, and d, respectively.

Page

Bacon, Edward S. 459

Bacon, Edwin F. 136

Bacon, Francis 284

Bacon, Thomas R. 428

Bagg, Lyman H. 228

Baldwin, David D. 383

Baldwin, Henry 72

Barnes, Henry B. 52

Barnes, William DeL. 618

Barnett, William E. 575

Barrows, George A. 140
Bartholomew, Horace B. 99

Bartholomew, John 957

Bartlett, Edward H. 947

Bates, Lindon, Jr. 894

Bayley, Norman B. 479

Beach, Edward C. 661

Beach, George L. 929

Beadleston, William L. 842

Beall, Morris H. 502

Beeson, William 342

Belden, E. Porter 4

Belknap, William R. 871

Bell, A. MacDonald 647

Bell, Douglas J. A. 114

Bellis, John A. 486

Bennett, Henry S. 739

Bennett, Samuel 455

Bent, Samuel A. 395

Benton, Charles W. 608

Bergmans, Jacob C. 961

Bergstrom, Francis 460

Berry, C. Dewees 225

Bezjian, Hagop A. 495

Bickley, Francis E. 282

Biddle, Jacob A. 930

Billings, Luther G. 108

Bingham, J. Foote 738

Birch, James G. 478
Birmingham, Daniel M. 762

Bishop, Ernest S. 461

Bishop, William D. 252

Bittenger, Charles E. 924

Blair, Frank S. 101

Blake, James K. 265

Class

Page

Class

1896 m

Abbott, Larmon W.

120

1886

1866

Abbott, Lewis L.

418

I87IS

1875 d

Adams, George C.

152

' 1853 m

1886

Adams, John C.

632

1872

1883

Adams, John L.

820

1869

1850

Adams, Stephen

735

1857

1881

Adee, Edwin M.

622

1871

1873

Adee, Philip H.

238

1866

1908/

Aiken, William M.

128

1880

1889

Aiken, William P.

636

1864

1894 s

Albree, Ralph

691

I883S

1906

Alden, George H. W.

279

1889

1855

Alexander, William D.

376

1883S

1855

Allen, Charles J. F.

186

1855 m

1867

Allen, Cornelius L.

945

1902 s

1857

Allen, Edmund T.

382

187 1 m

1867

Allen, James M.

420

1888 m

1861s

Allen, Oscar D.

491

1873 d

1912

Allen, Royden W.

477

1895

1873

Almy, Leonard B.

606

1893*

1895*

Anderson, Robert

692

1843

1882 d

Anderson, Wilbert L.

93i

1844

1876/

Anderson, William C.

124

1869s

1851/

Andrews, Charles S.

666

1900

1899

Andrews, Henry C.

645

1907

1864

Anketell, Edward A.

412

1895/

1904 mf Appleton, John

906

1853

1882 s

Armstrong, Alfred W.

140

1882

1891/

Armstrong, George L.

673

1861

1871

Arnold, Franklin

786

1874

1869

Arvine, Earlliss P.

779

1891*/

1903 s

Arvine, Edward K.

896

1888

1897 s

Ashley, Edward F.

145

1868

1876 d

Atkins, Doane R.

703

1874 s

1846

Atlee, Walter F.

8

1910

1864

Atterbury, Charles L.

769

1875 d

1843

Atterbury, William W.

168

1898

1840

Attwood, Garwood H.

53i

1852

1843

Atwood, Charles K.

34i

1865 m

1879

Auchincloss, Hugh D.

449

1863

1845 m

Austin, James

946

1889

1898 s

Ayres, Rowan

506

1880
1911 /

1873/

Babcock, Frederick W.

916

1891

1912 s

Backus, Edward R.

513

1 891

INDEX

965

Class

Page

Class

Page

1862

Blatchley, Samuel R.

565

1864 J

Brownfield, Robert L.

681

IQ02

Boder, Louis F.

470

1867

Bruce, Wallace

592

1904

Boggs, Walter DeW.

860

I905

Bruff, Harold

278

1891/

Bohan, Charles P.

9Si

1864 m

Brundage, John D.

658

1883/

Bohan, Cormac F.

294

1852^

Brush, George J.

298

I8SO

Boiles, David H.

736

1843

Bryan, George A.

532

1887

Bonar, Allan B.

$33

1848

Buckingham, Ebenezer

172

1850

Bonbright, Daniel

360

1885

Buell, Lewin F.

259

1904

Bonnie, Shelby W.

861

1855

Bulkley, George

187

I90O

Boocock, Howard

852

1855

Bumstead, Nathaniel W.

188

1853 m

Booth, William T.

118

1897

Burgess, Frederic M.

271

1864

Borden, Matthew C. D.

21S

1904/

Burnes, George R.

924

1895

Borden, Matthew S.

843

1857

Burnet, Jacob S.

26

1909

Borden, William W.

475

1868

Burns, Joseph S.

594

1907

Borup, George

279

1895

Burns, Ralph H.

639

1883

Bottome, George H.

458

1874/

Burr, Ebenezer

291

1879

Bowers, Lloyd W.

86

I87I

Burr, Joseph A.

787

1883

Bowman, Austin L.

821

1909 *

Burr, Julian P.

700

1899

Boyce, John

274

1899

Burrell, Norman M.

848

1903

Brady, Charles A.

470

1870/

Bush, Charles K.

123

1850

Brainerd, Cyprian S., Jr.

361

1889 ^

Busse, Frank A.

886

1859/

Brainerd, Ezra L.

95o

1866

Butler, Henry H.

776

1867

Brainerd, George C.

223

1876

Butler, Henry M.

442

1875*

Bramley, John G.

137

1875 <*

Buttner, Andrew L.

703

1908 dp Brandelle, David W.

327

1856

Brandon, Robert L.

23

1848

Calhoun, David S.

355

1850

Brewer, John H.

11

1894/

Callahan, Timothy F.

127

1852 s

Brewer, William H.

130

1900

Campbell, John H.

648

1889

Brewster, Walter S.

462

1867

Cannon, Charles K.

57

1893

Briggs, George J.

268

1896

Carleton, Theodore

106

1870 J

Brinsmade, Daniel S.

493

1S64S

Carpenter, Edwin W.

301

1877

Briscoe, Willis A.

444

1845

Carrington, Henry B.

348

1859

Bristol, Louis H.

30

l88l

Carroll, Clarence F.

452

i860

Bristoll, William M.

33

1909 S

Cary, Robert H.

512

1873

Bristow, Algernon T.

433

1911 S

Case, Samuel W.

321

1856^

Bronson, Nathan S.

133

1904 d

Castor, George DeW.

519

1897

Brooke, G. Clymer

844

1856

Catlin, Charles T.

189

1851 '

Brooks, John B.

540

1908

Catlin, Reginald W.

652

1865

Brooks, John E.

416

1851 m

Catlin, Samuel

947

1867

Brooks, Joseph J.

591

1854

Catlin, Thomas W.

16

1006

Brown, Ben 0.

112

1863

Chamberlain, Leander T.

406

1883/

Brown, Charles W.

672

1876

Chamberlin, Frank

77

1876*

Brown, F. Elwood

879

1902

Chamberlin, Harry B.

649

1901

Brown, F. Gordon

no

1901

Chamberlin, John B.

649

1874

Brown, George S.

609

1856

Champlin, John D.

743

1856

Brown, Henry B.

552

1865

Chandler, James E.

218

1862

Brown, James F.

210

1870

Chapin, Edward

232

1862

Brown, James P.

A3

1847

Chapin, Henry B.

731

1853/

Brown, James R.

913

1800 d

Chapin, Robert C.

707

1894

Brown, Pratt A.

268

1875 w

Chapman, George B.

286

1857

Brown, Robert

194

1862

Chapman, Robert F.

402

1856

Brown, Theron

554

1903 *

Chatfield, George F.

695

966

INDEX

Class
1892

Cheney, Knight D.

Page
103

1910

Chesley, Erf ord W.

654

1875

Chester, Carl T.

441

1895

Cheyney, Charles B.

640

1880/

Childs, William V.

293

1866/

Chittenden, Richard H.

482

1870 s

Clark, Dorr

494

1853

Clark, Edson L.

367

1876

Clarke, Edward S.

245

1878 d

Clarke, Joseph B.

959

1869

Clarke, William C.

780

1866

Clay, Cassius M.

589

1892

Clay, Ezekiel R, Jr.

834

1859

Clay, Green

389

i860

Clay, Joseph

558

1882

Clement, Stephen M.

456

1866/

Cleveland, Chester D.

122

1895 s

Coburn, Henry P.

888

1862

Coe, Edward B.

566

1893*

Coe, John W.

145

1844

Coleman, Augustus A.

5

1857

Colles, George W.

26

i860

Colton, Frederick H.

205

1893*

Conner, Henry F.

312

1895/

Conner, Louis E.

677

1847

Copp, Frederick A.

535

1906

Copps, John E.

113

1896.?

Corbin, Wilbur R.

889

1855

Corning, Edwin

378

1866

Cornwall, James H.

53

1886

Cornwell, Gibbons G.

459

1868

Cowell, George H.

62

1895/

Cox, William H.

128

1911 ^

Coxe, Albert B.

701

1870

Crane, Arthur P.

71

1000

Crawford, Frank T.

853

1887 d

Cross, James F.

323

1912 m

Crowley, Forrest G.

664

1870

Cummings, J. Henry

233

1874

Curtis, Edward L.

241

1852

Curtiss, Charles W.

365

1879

Curtiss, John W.

88

1880

Daggett, William G.

9i

1851

Dana, William B.

12

1896 s

Danforth, Charles W.

890

1882

Darling, Frederick O.

255

1866

Darrell, George F.

776

1899

Davies, Frederick M.

849

1866

Davis, Gustavus P.

590

i860

Davis, Robert S.

35

1862

Day, Melville C.

568

Class

Page

1892 S

Day, Wilbur F.

690

1913 ml Dearth, Arthur R.

678

1868/

DeForest, Edward F.

291

1862

DeForest, Heman P.

569

1868

DeForest, John K. H.

64

1869

DeGrove, Edward R.

229

1908

Delano, Eugene

474

1858

Delano, Isaac

198

1872

Deming, Clarence

430

1900/

Devitt, William V.

487

1009*

Dewey, Alonzo N.

ISO

1867

Dexter, Morton

57

1883 d

Dickey, Myron P.

932

1907*

Dickinson, Burgess

5ii

1878

Dickson, William L.

805

1876

Dill, James B.

78

1863

Dimock, Henry F.

45

1905 *

Disbrow, Wallace F.

900

1893^

Doane, Frank B.

154

1889/

Doolittle, John A.

294

1863

Doolittle, John B.

764

1902 s

Doolittle, Wilcox

317

1893

Dorsey, Francis 0.

838

1886

Dougherty, Thomas F.

261

1892/

Douglas, John M.

485

1866

Downs, Harrison

418

1909 s

Dreyfus, Emanuel L.

701

1906s

Drisko, Burton I.

148

1865

Dryden, John F.

218

1852

DuBois, John C.

366

1868

Durant, William

595

i860

Dutton, Clarence E.

206

1886 .y

Dyer, Joseph 0.

501

1850

Easter, John D.

362

i860

Eaton, D. Cady

208

1862

Eaton, Sherburne B.

761

1893

Eccles, William W.

839

1855

Edgar, John

379

1857

Edwards, Alfred L.

27

1872 s

Edwards, Wheeler deF.

874

1840

Egleston, Nathaniel H.

339

1869

Ehrich, Louis R.

230

1839

Eliot, Augustus G.

3

1849

Eliot, Ellsworth

359

1867

Elliot, Charles S.

59

1876

Ellwanger, William DeL

442

1862

Ely, Charles W.

403

1882

Ely, James R.

815

1878 s

Emery, Augustus J.

881

i860

Eno, Henry C.

755

1869

Eno, John C.

596

INDEX

967

Class

Page

Class

1879 c/

Ernst, Frederick W.

706

18720!

185 1

Estabrook, James E.

737

1893/

1845

Esty, Constantine C.

353

1845

1868 J

Evans, Barton D.

869

1899.?

1911 S

Evans, Deane M.

901

1854

1898

Evans, Thomas M.

467

1869

1884

Evarts, Maxwell

629

1870^

1906 S

Everett, S. Homer

5io

1872/

1855

Ewing, Martin B.

19

1849
1864

189I

Farmer, James E.

832

1870

1864 s

Farnsworth, Frederick

682

1888

1878

Feick, Charles A.

249

•1862 s

1894

Ferguson, John M.

466

1848

1903 m

Ferris, Cleveland

663

1894

1885

Ferris, John D.

946

1892

Finlay, Percy

638

1893

i88irf

Fisk, Pliny B.

515

1894*

1877

Fisk, Samuel A.

802

1873*

1855/

Fitch, Nathan T.

914

1899

1897

FitzGerald, Thomas F.

845

1875*

1892/

Flaherty, Morgan J.

952

1906 m

1876

Fleming, Robert B.

246

1857

1905 dp Fogelberg, Joseph

962

1849

1869^

Folsom, Joseph R.

492

1853

1859

Foote, Edwin B.

200

1867

1908 c/

Forbes, Forrest LeB.

926

1914

1870

Forbes, Ira E.

233

1895

1865

Ford, George T.

219

1904 s

1898

Forman, Justus M.

847

i8ggs

1865

Forrest, Charles R.

417

1881

1893/

Foster, Dana P.

296

1863

1879

Foster, George F.

810

1862 m

1909

Fowler, Denton

115

1867

1882 a?

Fox, Amos T.

322

1878 ml

1899

Franey, Frank J.

850

1892

1857

Freeland, Samuel M.

28

1899

1862

Freeman, Harrison B.

570

1871

1856

French, Joseoh R.

380

1873

1896 c?/) Fullerton, Edward G.

326

1892/

1838

1874

1884 s

Galbraith, Davenport

882

1879 s

Gallagher, John C.

309

1901

1849

Galpin, Philip G.

945

1878 m

1901 ^

Gard, Allen

316

1865

1893

Gardiner, Thomas A.

638

1861

1866 s

Gauss, Charles H.

956

1904/

1901 s

Gay, Leon L.

891

1846

1852 /

Giddings, Frederick S.

482

1866 m

1865

Gilbert, Lyman DeH.

584

1864

1869

Gilbert, Samuel D.

68

1887

1863

Gilman, Charles M.

765

i877'

Gilman, George P.

928

Gilpin, Bernard

674

Goddard, George W.

533

Goodman, Julian H.

146

Gordon, William W.

370

Grant, John C.

597

Grant, Justus H.

S73

Grece, William

484

Greene, Richard G.

733

Gregory, Lewis

48

Griffith, Daniel J.

71

Griffith, Harold R.

829

Grinan, Juan

869

Grist, Franklin R.

173

Guthrie, Warren W.

841

Haldeman, Donald C.

840

Hall, Edward C.

313

Hall, Edward J.

875

Hall, Francis J.

645

Hall, William C

307

Halladjian, Isaiah H.

121

Hallock, Joseph N.

385

Hanes, John L.

537

Harland, Edward

740

Harper, Orlando M.

224

Harpham, Watson S.

865

Harris, Francis J.

641

Harris, Fred M.

898

Hart, Charles G.

147

Hart, Ernest E.

454

Haskell, Willabe

408

Hassard, Robert G.

657

Hathorn, Frank H.

421

Hatoyama, Kazuo

954

Hauslein, Ferdinand A.

464

Hay, Charles E.

274

Hazard, William T.

602

Heald, John 0.

239

Healey, John J.

127

Hedges, Henry P.

165

Hedges, William

439

Hemenway, Lewis E.

854

Henriques, John P.

119

Hicks, John W.

775

Higgins, Anthony

397

Hill, Benjamin F.

488

Hill, George E.

729

Hill, Seth

478

Hiller, Charles A.

413

Hinkle, Charles M.

634

Hinman, Leverett C.

125

968

INDEX

Class

Page

Class

Page

1903 s

Hoadley, Charles B.

695

1876

Kean, John

800

1891

Holcomb, Herbert W.

833

1877

Keator, John F.

80

1855 »t

Holly, Francis M.

908

1856

Keeler, S. McNeil

191

i860

Holmes, Ephraim L.

36

1808 J

Kelley, Paul D.

694

1895

Hone, Joseph B.

466

1858

Kellogg, Chauncey S.

556

1806 s

Hopton, Lemuel R.

313

1872

Kendrick, Greene

603

igios

Horsfall, John C.

319

1874

Kennett, Alfred Q.

440

1891 ^

Horton, Thomas 0.

144

1863

Kennett, Thomas A.

212

1003 s

Hoster, Herman A.

897

1857*

Kent, Alexander H.

868

1876*

Houghteling, James L.

138

1875*

Kent, Edward A.

308

1859

Houston, Francis H.

391

I9II

Keppy, Frederick B.

282

1875 nt

Howard, William

909

1911 s

Killian, Webster U.

902

1854

Howland, Henry E.

545

I880

King, Preston

618

1878

Hoyt, Henry M.

81

1856

King, Wyllys S.

745

1872

Hubbard, Elbert H.

432

1866

Kingman, Eugene

54

1869

Hull, Charles A.

424

1846

Kingsbury, Frederick J.

8

1887

Hume, John H.

262

i860

Kingsbury, Oliver A.

559

1851

Hungerford, Edward

176

1894

Kirkland, Edward

269

1892/

Huntington, Henry A.

295

1882

Kittredge, Alfred B.

93

1891

Hyde, Francis deL.

102

1865

Kittredge, Francis W.

585

1861

Hyde, James N.

38

i860

Kittredge, Josiah E.

560

1879

Hyde, Lewis H.

450

1887 s

Knapp, Grayson G.

50I

1873 d

Kurtz, Henry D.

322

1840

Iglehart, Thomas S.

944

1863

Ingersoll, Henry H.

766

1886

Lambert, Elliot C.

632

1890 ^

Irwin, Theodore D.

143

1878

Lamberton, James McC.

806

1875

Isham, Samuel

798

1889

Lamphier, George L.

101

1861

Ives, Brayton

756

1897 s

Lane, Hubert A.

315

1864

Lanman, Joseph

577

1888 m

Jackson, Charles R.

910

1864

Lapham, David G.

770

1852

Jackson, George E.

14

1874

Latimer, Everton J.

795

1876

Jackson, Isaac M.

444

1 87 1 in

Lauder, Robert

660

1857

Jackson, Joseph C.

386

1903 m

Lavalaye, Joseph P.

289

1871

Jackson, Schuyler B.

788

1878

Law, William H.

809

1006

Jameson, Stanley N.

113

1894

Lay, Edward H.

103

1874

Jenkins, Frank

610

1876

Leach, Francis A.

247

1851

Jenkins, Jonathan L.

540

1893

Leavitt, Burton E.

464

1889

Jenks, Arthur E.

100

1895

Lee, Franklin L.

105

1876 m

Johnson, Laban H.

661

1886

Lee, James W.

828

1859/

Johnson, Richard Z.

667

1854

Leeds, Charles H.

742

1853

Johnston, J. Stoddard

542

1873

Lehmer, Charles

794

1006

Johnston, Witter L.

114

1874

Leighton, Theodore F.

706

1875

Jones, Dwight A.

611

1889

Lemer, Milton M.

263

1859

Jones, George W.

201

1907

Leonard, Norman A.

473

1895*

Jordan, Frank W.

504

1892 ma Lester, James C.

962

1895

Tordan, Isaac M.

641

1882

Lewis, Charles H.

93

1862

Judson, Charles N.

211

1883 d

Lewis, Daniel M.

515

1885/

Judson, Stiles

920

1870

Lewis, Edwin A.

235

1868

Lewis, George H.

422

1892 d

Karmarkar, S. V.

324

1006 j

Liggett, John D.

3i8

1872

Kaufman, Hiram Y.

238

1851

Lincoln, Francis R.

365

1005 s

Kay, Frederick W.

3i8|

1901

Lindenberger, Emory H.

855

INDEX

969

Class

1901

1866/

185 1

1897 m

1875/

1908.9

1903

1882

i860

1866

1859

1888

1850

1902

1864

1861

1883

191 1 /

1809^
1893/
1884

1897 s
1862
1892
1894
1870
1881
1902
1900
1874 s
1868

1 89 1 m

1868 s

1900

1908^

1861

1905^

1891

1890 j

1873 dp

1903

1870

18S8

1898 m
1870^
1892
1894 tn
1899
1893/
i88irf
1877

Page

Class

Page

Linsly, Wilford W.

276

1872 s

Maxwell, Robert D.

495

Lippitt, Andrew C.

668

1899

Mayer, Albert J.

469

Little, Robbins

178

1912/

Mayer, Harry P.

677

Littlejohn, P. Duncan

121

1890 c/

Meckel, Julius A.

960

Livermore, Russell W.

917

1843

Meech, George A.

169

Lobdell, George G., 3d

900

1895/

Mendell, Melville B.

486

Long, Arthur C.

47i

1879

Merriam, Charles L.

811

Long, Charles J.

816

1864

Merriam, George S.

580

Loomis, Alba L. P.

37

1886 d

Merrick, Solomon G.

060

Lord, Theodore A.

778

1883

Merrill, William H.

626

Lounsbury, Thomas R.

749

1849

Merriman, Corydon C.

II

Loving, William

99

1884

Merritt, Edwin A.

824

Ludden, William

174

1894/

Merritt, Oliver H. P.

953

Ludington, Arthur C.

857

1907^

Merwin, Merritt B.

5ii

Lyman, David B.

578

1849

Metcalfe, Henry L.

173

Lyman, Samuel H.

40

1872

Milburn, George R.

74

Lynde, George S.

823

1888

Millard, Frank V.

635

Lyon, Fred M.

925

1855

Miller, Alfred B.

548

1847

Mills, Alfred

535

Mabee, George J. W.

508

1855

Mills, John L.

549

McCall, James St.C.

675

1888 d

Milne, Alexander

517

McCalmont, John 0.

95

1865 m

Mitchell, William A.

659

McCandless, Harry D.

315

1905^

Mixter, William B.

509

McClintock, Walter L.

44

1907 s

Monahan, Clifford J.

149

McClung, Lee

835

1901 d

Moninger, Henry H.

961

McCray, Edward H.

841

1878

Moodie, Royal C.

250

McCutchen, Samuel St. J.

78i

1899 d

Moor, David Y.

708

McDonald, Richard H.

623

1894/

Moore, Albert A., Jr.

923

McDowell, Howard G.

650

1871J

Moore, Alfred L.

686

McGouldrick, Ernest C.

275

1903 s

Moore, Charles E.

147

McGrath, William

687

1886

Moore, Frederick W.

97

MacGregor, Donald

66

1861

Moore, Nathaniel S.

401

Mclnerny, James H.

120

1878 j

Moorhead, Frank T.

688

McKell, Joseph S.

135

1871

Morris, William

236

Mackey, William C.

276

1890

Morris, William G.

264

McKone, William F.

149

1851

Morse, Bennett W.

13

McLane, James W.

399

1874*

Morse, Charles J.

304

McLean, Alexander S.

696

1888 d

Morse, Henry H.

154

MacLear, Malcolm

267

1861

Morse, Leonard F.

563

Maloney, Frank A.

143

1854*

Mosman, Alonzo T.

680

Manatt, J. Irving

904

1898

Mullen, George A.

109

Manierre, Arthur

471

i8q7^

Munson, Paul B.

506

Mann, Francis N.

426

1872

Murch, A. Allerton

79i

Marble, George R.

747

1901 s

Myers, Louis P.

892

Markoe, William W.

662

Marks, William D.

684

1863

Naphtaly, Joseph

46

Marshall, Elliott

837

1876 d

Newcomb, Frederick W.

958

Marston, Edward B.

949

1880

Newcomb, James E.

45i

Mason, Huntington

646

1872/

Newton, Henry G.

668

Mathews, Charles H.

922

1880

Nichols, Alfred B.

619

Matincheff, Ivan N.

959

1854 *n

Nicoll, John

286

Matthews, George E.

248

1867 s

Niles, William H.

134

97o

INDEX

Class

Page

Class

Page

1883/

Niles, William P.

673

1910 S

Phillips, Leon J.

151

1851

Noble, John W.

179

1850

Phoenix, Sidney

175

I.880

Noyes, Edward P.

620

I902

Pickands, Jay M.

650

1868

Pierson, Stephen

226

1872

Oakey, James

605

1901 s

Pike, Ralph A.

893

1909 ma Okamoto, Kenzaburo

714

1857*

Pike, William H.

868

1875

Okey, Alfred E.

77

1856

Pinneo, Samuel L.

746

1905*

Olds, Herbert V.

697

1862

Pitkin, Thomas H.

405

1909 ma Olmstead, Edgar H.

714

1899

Piatt, Howard

109

1873

Ord, Joseph P.

435

1873

Piatt, James P.

436

1857/

Orwig, Samuel H.

915

1879

Polhelmus, Adrian S.

89

1874 j

Osborn, Eugene E.

878

1888

Pond, Edward

636

1905

Ostrum, Carl

862

1881

Poole, Leonard H.

455

1864

Owen, Henry E.

414

1869*

Pope, Charles H.

683

1904 c!

Porter, George E.

709

1002

Packer, Andrew D.

859

1861 m

Porter, Horace P.

657

1868

Page, Charles

225

1876

Porter, John

612

1882

Page, Frank E.

94

1880

Porter, John B.

621

1864

Page, Olof

216

1905 m

Pratt, Charles R.

664

1910^

Page, Rutherford

320

1883*

Pratt, David M.

688

1881/

Paige, Allan W.

671

1858

Pratt, Electus A.

29

1854

Palfrey, Charles C.

17

1855

Pratt, George

20

1855

Palmer, Charles R.

550

1874*

Pratt, William S.

497

1888

Palmer, Lucius N.

461

1884

Prouty, Henry W.

95

1914

Palmer, Ray D.

865

1864

Pugsley, Isaac P.

771

1854

Palmer, William H.

547

1896

Paret, Walter P.

270

1902

Rand, Laurance B.

651

189S s

Parker, Frank J.

505

1876

Randall, Sands F.

72

1883

Parrott, Joseph R.

626

1906^

Rathborne, Joseph C.

698

1868.?

Parshall, Lyman B.

683

1861*

Raymond, Carrington H.

955

1854*

Parsons, David B.

490

1870

Raymond, Samuel A.

782

1848

Parsons, Henry M.

357

1883

Read, David F.

628

1897

Patterson, Stewart

846

1871

Reed, Charles

790

1898

Paxton, John R.

272

1872

Reed, Charles H.

792

1861

Payson, Edward P.

564

i88id

Reitzel, John R.

153

1906

Payton, Edward S.

472

1873

Reynolds, Andrew J.

76

1861

Pearse, John B.

758

1903

Reynolds, James W.

277

1876/

Peck, Eugene B.

484

1874*

Reynolds, William H.

879

1879

Peck, Isaac

251

1869

Rhame, Mitchell D.

598

1863

Peck, John H.

47

1891

Rhodes, William C.

637

1895

Peck, Tracy

467

1859

Rice, William H.

32

1878

Peet, John N.

448

1890^

Rich, Frank R.

143

1861

Pelton, George A.

759

1849

Richards, Charles A. L.

537

i860

Pennington, William

210

i860

Richards, Eugene L.

392

1901

Penny, William A.

855

1869

Richardson, Rufus B.

599

1870

Perkins, Charles E.

427

1868 w

Rising, Henry M.

908

1909 ma Perkins, Claude C

328

1912 s

Robbins, George B., Jr.

003

1909

Perrin, John B.

653

IS971

Robbins, William V.

487

1863

Perry, David B.

213

1883 s

Robert, Albert W.

499

1008

Peters, William R.

280

1869

Robert, Howell W.

78i

1884

Phelps, Charles P.

258

1862

Robert, John S.

571

1873 s

Phillips, Andrew W.

876

1870 s

Roberts, Evelyn P.

302

INDEX

971

Class

Page

Class

Page

1908

Robertson, Wright H.

474

1842

Smith, Augustus

728

I9IO

Robinson, Arthur F.

476

1867

Smith, Benjamin

593

1888/

Robinson, George W.

922

1857 m

Smith, Ezra

656

1863

Robinson, Henry P.

573

1913/

Smith, Frederick W.

925

1857

Robinson, Michael W.

388

1806 dp Smith, Theodate L.

712

1898

Rockwell, Maxwell W.

273

1806 j

Smith, Theodore E.

693

1864

Rockwood, Charles G.

58i

1908 s

Southack, Bogart G.

319

1857

Rogers, Edson

29

1866

Southgate, Charles McC.

419

18/6

Rogers, George M.

613

mis

Spalding, Warren A.

139

1865*

Rogers, Harry-

492

1888 s

Spanutius, Frederick W.

885

1883

Rogers, Robert C.

256

1905 .*

Spencer, Joseph H.

509

1906

Rogers, Robert L.

864

1887 s

Sperry, Erwin S.

689

1844

Rogers, Samuel T.

343

1859

Sprague, Albert A.

752

1877

Rood, Henry M.

804

1879

Stanton, Louis L.

90

1872

Ropes, Charles J. H.

793

1870

Stearns, Edwin R.

783

1882

Rossiter, John

817

1847

Steele, Joseph

170

1873 s

Rowland, Amory E.

303

1903

Steele, Warren M.

in

1859

Ruggles, Thomas E.

202

1858

Steele, William H.

109

1894

Ryan, Albert T.

104

1871

Stelle, George R.

237

187 1

Ryerson, Arthur

236

1876

Sterling, George L.

614

1884

Stevenson, John H.

259

1866

Sackett, Darius P.

222

1875 c/

Stevenson, John 0.

514

1898 s

Sage, William P.

890

1873

Stewart, Seth T.

437

1909 ml Sanchez, Proceso G.

927

1874*

Stillman, Francis H.

306

1886 c/

Sandbrook, William

707

1898

Stimson, George P.

468

1853 in

Sanford, Charles E.

655

1878

Stone, Edgar H.

251

1887/

Sawada, Shunzo

126

1883

Stone, Horatio 0.

257

1897

Sawyer, James P.

643

1908 s

Stone, Ralph H.

150

1883 s

Sayre, Charles L.

500

1865

Stone, William

586

1893 m

Scharton, Martial A.

662

1882/

Stoughton, John A.

918

1898

Scheftel, Herbert A.

848

1853

Stowell, Alexander D.

368

1878

Schwab, Laurence H.

83

1870

Strong, Charles H.

601

1886

Scott, Samuel W.

261

1910s

Stuart, James B.

151

1880

Seaver, Jay W.

812

1898 s

Sturges, Walter K.

507

1871

Seessel, Albert

73

1889 s

Sturgis, Danford N. B.

3ii

1910/

Shapiro, Meyer M.

489

1875 ni

Sullivan, James

287

1875/

Sharp, George M.

292

1002 ma Sumner, Edward A.

712

1847

Shaw, Edward

732

1889 s

Sykes, Henry H.

142

1895 m

Sheehan, William J.

911

1863

Sheldon, Edward P.

574

1882/

Taft, Arthur M.

919

1851

Sheldon, Joseph

181

1876 s

Terry, Frank A.

499

1888 j

Shelton, Charles K.

689

1862 m

Terry, Jeremiah W.

948

1868

Shelton, William R.

67

1853

Thomas, Charles L.

544

189s s

Sherman, Frederick D.

692

1005

Thomas, Ralph H.

863

1886

Sherman, Porter

828

1008/

Thomasson, Beverly B.

206

1887 *

Short, Oscar H.

141

1904 *

Thompson, E. Blish

899

1890*

Simms, William A.

958

1888

Thompson, Frank L.

831

1879 s

Skeel, Rufus H.

3ii

1007 m

Thompson, Frank W.

480

1853 ni

Skiff, Paul C

118

1865

Thompson, G. M.

220

1858

Sleight, Brinley D.

556

1861

Thompson, Heber S.

40

1890 c/

Smiley, Elmer E.

5i8

1856

Towne, Edward C.

192

1875

Smith, Albert York

799

1874

Townsend, James M.

610

972

INDEX

Class

Page

Class

Page

1862

Treadwell, Levi P.

572

1894 s

Weller, William M.

503

1902 S

Trench, Walter I.

806

1864

Welles, Edgar T.

772

1903

Trenholm, Arsene LeS.

652

1859

Welles, George P.

204

1847

Trezevant, Nathaniel M.

171

1880

Wells, David C.

254

1868

Trimble, James

227

1867

Weston, Homer

422

1884

Trowbridge, Frank D.

630

1890$

Wheeler, Henry L.

887

1857

Trowbridge, Luther S.

196

1864

Wheeler, Ralph

415

1863

Trowbridge, Wm. R. H.

768

1872

Wheeler. William B.

433

1863

Tufts, George K.

409

1866

Wheeler, William E.

55

1877

Tuttle, George M.

445

i860

Wheeler, Xenophon

56i

1868

Tweedy, Samuel

67

1883 d

Whitby, Henry J.

5i6

1894/

Tyner, Richard H.

676

1889

White, Edmund B.

463

1897

Tytus, Robb deP.

643

1854

White, Erskine N.

18

l88l

White, Henry C.

624

1891/

Uchida, Susumu

674

1903

White, John R.

277

1889

Underbill, John

116

1844

White, Jonathan

347

1907^

Upson, Clifford A.

699

1869S

White, William R.

872

1859

Upson, Henry

203

IB69S

Whitman, Horace F.

136

1 84I

Upson, Stephen C.

727

1878

Whitney, Edward B.

84

1864

Whitney, Henry M.

50

1886*

VanBuren, Thomas B.

884

1856

Whitney, James L.

23

1903 *

Vance, Clyde

317

1874

Whittemore, Arthur D.

797

1899

Vanderbilt, Alfred G.

851

1862/

Whittemore, Charles P.

122

1850/

VanDeventer, James T.

949

1905 s

Whittier, Richard C.

698

1897 ml VanVleck, Charles A.

678

1882

Wight, Charles A.

818

1905 s

Vernam, Albert H.

148

1859

Wilcox, Asher H.

753

1885

Vernon, Francis J.

631

1876/

Wilcox, Eljen K.

670

1883

Vernon, Harold

257

1898

Wilcox, Horace W.

273

1855*

Wilcox, Thames A.

867

1874 s

Wagner, S. Harrison

498

1885

Wiley, Charles S.

96

1884

Walker, Dean A.

826

1849

Willard, John

539

1844

Walker, Joseph B.

345

1888

Willett, Porter G.

263

1903

Walker, Raymond W.

112

1864

Williams, Job

583

1907 s

Wallace, Robert

700

1895

Williams, John R.

642

1880/

Walsh, James E.

125

1897

Williams, Norman A.

107

1880

Walton, Paul

814

1874

Williams, Roderic

244

1884^

Warner, James H.

883

1868

Williams, Thomas H.

424

1906

Warner, John

114

1877

Williams, William P.

447

1853

Warren, Joseph

369

1909 m

f Williamson, Addison W.

711

1865

Warren, William L.

221

1878 d

Willson, Theodore B.

704

1863

Washburn, Edward L.

411

1867

Wilson, Francis H.

61

1869

Watson, William P.

69

1890

Winchell, Joseph L.

264

1875

Weatherbee, Edwin H.

244

1865

Witter, William C

587

1901

Weeks, Harvey T., Jr.

856

1894 s

Wolodarsky, Meyer

691

1909

Weeks, Morton

116

1906

Wood, Alexander J.

472

1883

Weeks, William W.

824

1864

Wood, Henry R.

415

1880 s

Wehner, Adolph F.

881

1864

Wood, Orson S.

217

1906/

Weil, Norman

954

1855

Woodbridge, William R.

21

1872

Weiss, Samuel W.

75

1854

Woodford, Stewart L.

372

1876 m

Welch, Edward H.

288

1858

Woodruff, Charles H.

747

1850

Welch, Moses C.

3^3

1864

Woodruff, Francis E.

773

1869

Welch, Theodore F.

70

1871

Woodruff, Isaac 0.

602

INDEX

973

Class

Page

Class

1879

Woodruff, Timothy L.

615

1899

1844

Woodson, Frederick A.

7

1902

1894

Word, Charles F.

270

1 84I

1870

Wordin, Nathaniel E.

784

I9II

1847

Wright, D. Thew

354

1876

1865

Wright, Edward M.

221

1866

1904 m

Wrinn, Francis W.

289

1853

1855

Wyman, William C.

379

1854

IO08

Wynkoop, William W.

281

Page

Yamada, Taro 953

Yamasaki, Kaiei 713

Yarnall, Thomas C. 167

Yearwood, C. H. 710

Yeatman, Thomas 309

Young, George W. 56

Young, Robert S. 15

Yung, Wing 183

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